Eskimo Joe

Unpopular Opinion: The New Orleans evacuation recommendation is a bit premature, IMO. We've seen in past events, such as Rita in 2005, where evacuation orders were made prematurely and then the track shifted. The result was more people dying due to the evacuation process than the storm itself. It would have been better to wait for Ida to clear Cuba and see if that had any affect to the track, timing, or intensity of the forecast. Evacuation calls certainly are not easy, and COVID makes things more challenging, but I'm concerned this is going to be a bad call.

Sterling's updated short term AFD is...interesting:

Looks like we got a DY1 Slight Risk now.

https://twitter.com/COweatherman/status/1431246028842291200?s=20

GFS dives Ida' remnants well south of us, which is on par with climo. We lose again.

NAMs love Fairfax / Prince Georges / Charles county for storms this afternoon. HRRR gives the lover to Mason-Dixon. RAP eats paste.

Looks to be only about 2" - 4" over the course of 12 hours during peak summer. Not sure that would cause anything significant other than flooding in the usual spot. Maybe it'll trend upward, but so far the tropical remnants have been duds up here the past couple of years.

Any of the mets in here think the Mid Atlantic has a chance for action, or are we done for the year?

Costco in Owings Mills is putting out Christmas decorations. Wtf.

Prior to this, we had direct planted into the ground. This resulted in so many problems, mainly because our soil goes to heavy clay about a foot down. Our beds are 8 inches raised, plus the 10 to 12 inches of modified existing soil has created a reliable profile for the next couple of years. I went further and got a container of fishing worms for each bed and scattered them on the top one evening to let them work in. Hopefully these efforts pay off.

Rutgers, Yellow Brandywine, and Cherokee Purple. While we love the taste of Cherokee Purple they have thin skin and will split if it suddenly rains hard. One of those tomatoes that you have to eat within a day or two.

At peak, we average 4 dozen tomatoes a day. We've never had success of this magnitude. Raised bed gardening is all I'll ever do from now on.

Zucchini done for the year. Tomatoes starting to fade. Time to get the fall planting prepped...looks like garlic and collards.

I can relate. Grew up with no AC in a twin home in Philly.

If you want excellent data visualization, check out Tomer Burg and Sam Lilo on Twitter.

Last I checked it's up.

Season's over for us. We had Fred which turned out to be a bust. It's always something in these parts mucking things up.

What an irresponsible tweet.

Minimum $1 million per mile and, in areas that are already developed, you have to compete with other utilites and then trenching and ground each house. It's not going to happen on a large scale in this country.

As someone who managed a utility company staging area post Hurricane Michael, it's better to overestimate power loss and have reserves ready to go than be short.

Yup. Lots of early "storm cancel" posts here in this thread.