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Is it possible that the Nats have a worse bullpen than the O's? Holy cow, what an implosion last night. Nice to see the Orioles win a game like that!

My wife took this picture about a half mile from our home last evening. I've never seen anything like it...any ideas? I was at the ballpark in Lancaster working when the storm hit.

Storms are a firing...and a watch is up for east of the river.

@Voyager QPF jackpot today?

WPC goes SLIGHT for excessive rainfall for much of the SE portion of our area today and tonight.

Max wind gust - 7 mph.

You would know, but I so miss the old ballparks. I saw over 600 games at Memorial Stadium, which many thought was a total dump. Personally, I would give my heart and soul to watch baseball there over Camden Yards any day or night. Bringing weather into it, I was an 18 year old Sunday season ticket holder back in 1984 at Memorial. Took a friend from work down to a Sunday afternoon double dip against the Tigers. (they started that year 35-5) At any rate, the Tigers won game #1 12-4 and were up 10-0 in the nightcap and there I sat blissfully watching the game I love so much. The guy with me was beside himself that we were still there, 6 hours after game #1 started. You see, the announced temperature at game time was 101 degrees. And like Arlington Stadium, Memorial Stadium's upper level was almost entirely metal benches with metal backs. There were over 50,000 at 2pm...probably about 500 of us at 8pm, lol. That was the hottest sporting event I've attended. I've been to a lot of 'em. Edit: If any of you go to an O's game (no idea why any would want to, sadly) but anyway...take note of the announced game time temperature. Since sometime at least back to the 1970s the temperature has ALWAYS been an odd number. It's a tradition that I'm not sure how it started but I know it to be true.

Gutsy call! Going higher at MDT than Thomasville. You'll probably nail it, as usual.

I remember when the Rangers played at old Arlington Stadium that they were the only MLB team to play their Sunday home games in the evening because it was just too hot during the afternoon.

44" in 6 days...but who's counting?

'95 and '97 both had big heat waves. At least at LNS the temps were a bit higher in 97. (though '95 I think was more oppressive.) LNS's all time record is 107. July record is 104...

Yep, thanks for clarifying... Can't remember the year (stuff like this happens at my age) but there was a July heatwave back in the 90s that will be tough to beat. I remember working on a Saturday morning and LNS was 96 at 9am. Ninety freaking six. I think we ended up at a buck o four that day. Dews were outrageous as well. That...was miserable. Edit: It was 1997. LNS had consecutive days over 100, on one of which it was 96 at the 10am reading.

Thank you! 100% agree with every word penned right here... Just for fun, and to prove my total ignorance, here are my guesses for highest recorded temps as we experience the wave: THV: 99 MDT: 96 LNS: 97

If we stay dry during the midweek period I suppose we could make a run at it...my personal feeling is we max out around 95-96 but we'll see.

We are now entering the hottest 10 day period of the year based on the long-term average.

Meteorological winter cometh...139 days...

Had a few raindrops on our walk this afternoon...totally unexpected. Looks like July weather is coming this week. Not what I want but certainly nothing all that unusual.

1.6 here. Just took my wife to the Jigger Shop in Gretna and the standing water between Elizabethtown and there was crazy!

It's still way out there but we could potentially see some decent rain later next week.

First rain of the day produced 1.2" here in 25 minutes.

It'll be interesting to see what happens with all of that moisture in the days that follow...

I watch videos of snowstorms that people post on YouTube. There are some great ones of the Weather Channel's coverage of the Blizzard of 93.

Tolerable is a good word...I "tolerated" it all afternoon long while I was picking sugar peas and other goodies from my garden...and muttering the entire time.

Personally I thought today was far more uncomfortable than I thought it was going to be. Oh well...it's time for the summer weenies to have their time of happiness.

Wow guys, I never heard thunder once...