May Discobs 2026

[IronTy]

3 hours ago, BlizzardNole said:

Thanks for that info!  We're new to southern Calvert and I garden as a hobby.  The soil here scares me - mix of sand and cement.  The horrible drought hasn't helped, and this event has been very paltry so far.  Hoping for better luck later today and tonight, but I'm starting to think we end up real short down here.

You down near Lusby?  Call Hatcher's and get a load of compost and small pine fines delivered.  Once you get that done you should be all good.  I've had no trouble growing just about anything in my garden.  Only thing I really have trouble with is tomatoes but that's mostly a function of the trees iny yard growing so tall now that I get a lot more shade than I used to 20yrs ago.  

[Weather Will]

Had to turn the heat on....51 outside.  66 inside.

[wxdude64]

1 hour ago, Weather Will said:

Had to turn the heat on....51 outside.  66 inside.

LOL, yep. Wife was complaining that it was 67 in the house, on went the heat in May! smh. Currently light rain and 51.5/50.8. At 7 am CoCoRaHS report set a new 'cool max' for the date at 55.0 degrees, old mark was 57 degrees from 1990. Another 0.45" in gauge then, new 0.11 since. Close to 1.25" for event."

[Mrs.J]

1 hour ago, Weather Will said:

Had to turn the heat on....51 outside.  66 inside.

You saying that made me look at my temps. 50 outside holding at 70 inside, but I am in an interior TH. I did however change my system back over to min/max mode. So the heat will come on if it gets to 69 and put the air up to 76.

Rain wise .83” for the day so far. Event total is now 3.03"

[weatherCCB]

2.28” total so far

[Interstate]

.75 today and 1.87 so far. That might be a little light. Had to clean the opening of the rain gauge after some of the rain Thursday. 

[Herb@MAWS]

Columbia/I had 3” for event total as of this morning. 
 

Another .2” or so in last 4 hours. 

[SomeguyfromTakomaPark]

Opening swim team event 50 degrees and pouring lol 

[SnowenOutThere]

Looks like all the models give us another .5-2 inches of rain beyond this current system. CMC and GFS have it mainly fall on Monday-Tuesday with it's specific disturbance while Euro focuses it more with Thursday. 

[Roger Ramjet]

Event total up to 3" on the nose. Temp steady @ 49.

[kgottwald]

The little ice age has come back.

[wxdude64]

52.9/52.1 at 1 pm. I have to get above 59.8 degrees to not break LAST YEAR'S record 'cool max'. 

 

[BlizzardNole]

4 hours ago, IronTy said:

You down near Lusby?  Call Hatcher's and get a load of compost and small pine fines delivered.  Once you get that done you should be all good.  I've had no trouble growing just about anything in my garden.  Only thing I really have trouble with is tomatoes but that's mostly a function of the trees iny yard growing so tall now that I get a lot more shade than I used to 20yrs ago.  

We are about 4 miles south of Prince Frederick, just past Sixes Road.  Thanks for the soil amendment tips!  We are having a patio added this fall and I want to have garden beds installed all along the perimeter of it.

Finally got some good batches to come through here!  Prince Fred Mesonet (2 miles away) reports 0.55 so far today on top of 0.65 yesterday.  I like the warmer temps coming and would love to see some peeks of sun stir up some t-storms for the area.

[WEATHER53]

Got a shot at record high and record low high for BWI in same week 

[WEATHER53]

3 hours ago, wxdude64 said:

LOL, yep. Wife was complaining that it was 67 in the house, on went the heat in May! smh. Currently light rain and 51.5/50.8. At 7 am CoCoRaHS report set a new 'cool max' for the date at 55.0 degrees, old mark was 57 degrees from 1990. Another 0.45" in gauge then, new 0.11 since. Close to 1.25" for event."

On Thursday at noon my house interior was 78  and began the decline and last night at 10 it dropped to  68 and I turned heat on 

[EastCoast NPZ]

62F inside.  And IDGAF what it drops to, the heat is not being turned on again until November 1.  No matter what. 

Impressively cool.  Working out at the outside part of my gym today and I was puffing steam.  Felt amazing.

[CAPE]

Finally over a half inch with this decent batch of rain moving through.

[Wxtrix]

3.51" so far of wonderful rain, although the brown patches are still somewhat brown. keep it coming.

and the heat is on for a bit this afternoon because the house feels too damp.

[snowfan]

Latest ob: i fell asleep on the couch earlier. This weather will do that to you.

[Kay]

2.8" thus far.

[aldie 22]

Not much additional rain today but plenty so far. Not sure ill make 3" anymore but it's been a nice event 

[CAPE]

1 hour ago, snowfan said:

Latest ob: i fell asleep on the couch earlier. This weather will do that to you.

Bourbon day.

[katabatic]

The horizon to horizon stream of RX 350s with NoVa tags arrived right on schedule. The lines at the Oakland Wal Mart resemble the 1994 South African election. The sh*tty weather didn't stop the coming of summer age pilgrimage to Deep Creek...at least it is now above 50 with 2.10" of badly needed precip with #DroughtBuster'26. 200 foot ceilings be damned! Looking past early next week, unfortunately things turn absolutely bone dry again. From 117 to 384, GFS has my area with ~a half inch of precip. 

[SnowenOutThere]

Great Falls was pretty nice today. Full but not overflowing and the trees/plants all looked happy. 

[Stormchaserchuck1]

I kept checking the NWS because the weather app on my computer kept showing 50s for highs. NWS was always mid 60s or higher. I didn't get above 54 yesterday, and 50 today, at least for middle of the day highs.