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  1. Sparky
    Topped out at 91.
  2. Sparky
    Default is not a good look.
  3. Sparky
    03-04 was even better out here. Very cold with 35.5" total.
  4. Sparky
    Winter 04-05 wasn't terrible out this way. Got 7" in the January Miller B storm and 32" total for the winter.
  5. Sparky
    Feels really nice out currently 65 dew 53.
  6. Sparky
    Nah, it's more of a sickness.
  7. Sparky
    I think you will be fine given how far off the coast the actual eye will be. I was in an ocean front hotel on the top floor as Hurricane Bob came by OC, just about 90 miles off the coast and a very strong hurricane as it passed by (Cat 2 or low end 3). Me and the family were a bit squeemish about staying but since the projected path kept it off the coast we decided to stay. A bit of a nail biter as it progressed by but overall no real problems other than a dripping ceiling in several spots. As the eye passed by the strongest winds were blowing offshore which kept the waves/surge under control too. Overall a memorable fun weather event for this weenie. Here is a recap of that 1991 hurricane that I posted in our hurricane thread a couple of weeks ago: "I was in Ocean City for Hurricane Bob. There were big Hurricane Warning signs erected on Rt. 50 heading into O.C. trying to persuade folks not to enter. Evacuations weren't mandatory though. It was a very strong storm for O.C. with a lot of wind driven rainfall. Our top floor condo was dripping water in a few spots from the ceiling. I think the winds were mostly offshore at the height of the storm which spared the city from major wave damage. Winds were strong and gusty. The metal railing on our balcony was making wailing sounds during the worst of the winds. Of course we had the Weather Channel on most of the time back when watching the WC was kind of cool. Edit - I forgot to mention how cool it was watching the sky change as the storm was approaching from the south during the day. The wind and rain was mostly a late night and early morning event."
  8. Sparky
    The hurricane clouds look awesome this evening fringed in gold setting sun.
  9. Sparky
    I always use 4:1 in my hummingbird feeder and get the birds all summer, I still have them around now. My feeder is on a hook attached to the railing of my deck and I have never had any racoon problems with it. Plus it is a good 15 feet above ground as well.
  10. Sparky
    It did some of both. Looped south of Long Island and stalled for a while.
  11. Sparky
    Photos of newspapers out of Baltimore of the Feb 78 blizzard (yes, there were blizzard conditions in Baltimore and the surrounding suburbs)
  12. Sparky
    Do you remember the Feb. '78 storm (the one that really clobbered southern New England)? For me that was the snow drought breaker storm. It was pretty cool how the wrap around bands from that primarily new england storm reached back into parts of northern and northeastern MD and Delaware including Baltimore. Drifting was monumental with the dry fluffy snow being whipped by easily 50mph gusts for a good part of the Monday. It dropped a quick foot++ of snow on Baltimore, more as you went northeast, and with a rather sharp cutoff to the southwest which pretty much crapped out by the time you reached DC leaving them mostly high and dry. I think MattieG would have loved that one in particular.
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  14. Sparky
    .54" in about 10 minutes with thunder/lightning.
  15. Sparky
    Looks interesting to my south.
  16. Sparky
    0.98" on the day. About .60 of that in the overnight and another .40 in the afternoon thunderstorm. Right now my temp has fallen to the upper 50s, when I was out on the deck a minute ago I could see my breath, lol. I think it is very close to fogging up here unless the winds hurry up and kick in.
  17. Sparky
    Getting into some good sunshine for the last half hour. Temps up to 70 here.
  18. Sparky
    Big uptick in lightning in just the last five minutes.
  19. Sparky
    I thought you were a betting man. In other news, radar is really filling in now, maybe just south of you still.
  20. Sparky
    Don't look now but there are some nice towers showing in the sky to my northwest with nothing yet showing on radar.
  21. Sparky
    Good bit of thunder and lightning.
  22. Sparky
    Heard some thunder late yesterday evening and overnight.
  23. Sparky
    Heard a few rumbles of thunder in the last hour. Cells were southeast of me for the most part except earlier today around 4pm when I got clipped with some momentarily heavy rain.
  24. Sparky
    Pavement is covered though.
  25. Sparky
    around 1.5" att but sleet mixing in, yikes!
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