July Discobs 2026

[EastCoast NPZ]

@CAPE I took this pic at the Badlands just for you. I considered making it my profile pic.

[CAPE]

Just now, EastCoast NPZ said:

@CAPE I took this pic at the Badlands just for you. I considered making it my profile pic.

I think I'm gonna go with it.

[87storms]

We need a storm tomorrow as badly as the Wizards need a 50-win season.

[EastCoast NPZ]

6 minutes ago, CAPE said:

I think I'm gonna go with it.

It looks good on you.  Lol

[CAPE]

4 minutes ago, 87storms said:

We need a storm tomorrow as badly as the Wizards need a 50-win season.

I need a slow moving tropical depression. Just over 7" of rain here the last 4.5 months.

[CAPE]

The usual. Congrats eastern PA/NJ.

 

[kgottwald]

Automatic sprinklers going, spraying the sidewalk in front of an office building in Merrifield.

 

Complete waste of water, and renders the sidewalk impassible.

 

Does anyone really give a good goddamn if the grass next to the sidewalk is green or brown? I want a nationwide ban on watering anything that isn't A. cash crops, B. subsistence crops, or C. animal fodder. If you don't like seeing brown grass, then tear it out and plant cactus and creosote. 

 

FFS.

[nw baltimore wx]

It still looks smoky, and the purple air numbers are still solidly high, but on my walk this evening, all I smell is weed. Kind of normal.

[WxUSAF]

Yeah smell is much reduced. Could see 1 star in the sky

[high risk]

9 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

Yeah smell is much reduced. Could see 1 star in the sky

    Massive win.

[pazzo83]

30 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

Yeah smell is much reduced. Could see 1 star in the sky

same - just walked to meet a few friends for a drink, i didn't really smell anything.  still VERY hazy though.

[AnEndlessMaze]

2 hours ago, EastCoast NPZ said:

@CAPE I took this pic at the Badlands just for you. I considered making it my profile pic.

NGL for a minute I thought it was your backyard in Stephens City before looking closer. 

[dailylurker]

I just got woken up by a loud lightning strike. I love that. It looks like another round headed my way. AA County looks like the winner this morning. Headed your way, CAPE.

[katabatic]

Fortunately, a flush hit this morning. 1.46" which way more than doubled what's been delivered so far this month. Let's see how well we recover today.

[yoda]

Looks like @CAPE got a flush hit

[CAPE]

2 hours ago, dailylurker said:

I just got woken up by a loud lightning strike. I love that. It looks like another round headed my way. AA County looks like the winner this morning. Headed your way, CAPE.

It was a banger. Very noisy. Wasn't really expecting much from the warm frontal passage. Picked up 0.73". Much needed.

[CAPE]

1 minute ago, yoda said:

Looks like @CAPE got a flush hit

Close enough lol. Still better just to the south.

[CAPE]

Must have been the profile pic change. Thanks @EastCoast NPZ

[RickinBaltimore]

Was just woken up by a strong clap of thunder.

 

Thunder smoke? Why the hell not.

[WxUSAF]

About 0.08” with the morning bonus round. Hopefully 2 more rounds today?

[Herb@MAWS]

Eyeballing either side of 0.10” of rain in the gauge from a thundershower between 4 and 5 AM. Just enough to wet down things at the surface, air quality this morning for Columbia is starting off at about 186. 

[H2O]

AQ still kinda ass tho even if the air looks cleaner 

[AnEndlessMaze]

Still purple with AQI of 213 here 

[87storms]

3 hours ago, dailylurker said:

I just got woken up by a loud lightning strike. I love that. It looks like another round headed my way. AA County looks like the winner this morning. Headed your way, CAPE.

Thundered for “what seemed” like an hour straight here around 4am. I did not expect that.

[BlizzardNole]

Nothing but smoke and parched ground here.  I'm not expecting any rain this evening either

[WxUSAF]

24 minutes ago, Herb@MAWS said:

Eyeballing either side of 0.10” of rain in the gauge from a thundershower between 4 and 5 AM. Just enough to wet down things at the surface, air quality this morning for Columbia is starting off at about 186. 

I can smell it this morning again. Not as strong as yesterday 

[dailylurker]

Ugh.. I thought the rain knocked down the smoke. I'm headed out for a 8 mile morning hike and it smells like electrical fire lol. Oh well. I can't sit in the house all day. 

 

[stormy]

12 hours ago, SnowenOutThere said:

I find the argument “I lived through worse AQI and we still had events” so weird. Back then, we didn’t how bad it was for you and it was normalized so of course you held events in air which damaged your lungs, you didn’t know better! Now we do, so correspondingly we cancel. It’s like complaining that people wash their hands because we learned germ theory! 

Hello again!  Nice to hear from you!!

I'm happy to give your comment the respect that it deserves.   I'm not joking.

First two sentences:  I'm not concerned about events. Their not supremely important. I'm talking about the millions who work and or play outside. Back in the seventies, the best way to be fired from your job was to call your supervisor and say, I'm not going to work today or the rest of the week because the air is too dirty.  Those who had been trapped in an office all day looked forward to being outside in the fresh air for an evening softball game. Some of those who worked and played in all that dirty air have lived to be over 100 years old.

Last sentence:  Now we know better.   Do we really?  I'm good friends with a person  who will receive major surgery next week.  Visiting and receiving phone pre-surgery guidance from about 6 people from the hospital during the past week was a roller coaster of contradictory advice. About 4 people directly gave about 25 do's and dont's. The other 2 directly contradicted some of the guidance from the first 4.     Who was correct???

Watch out for those high winds later today.    The SPC really enhances the threat around D.C. compared to Augusta County.   Otherwise, enjoy your day. 

[mappy]

Such a silly back and forth

[mappy]

Sun seems more like actual sun and not a weird apocalyptic sun, this morning. Had to make a call about going to Hershey today, smoke looks to start clearing up there midday and storms not until way later, so we’re going.