Eskimo Joe

37­ degrees in Garrett County at 1:40 pm this afternoon. Feels more like early March...hope we epically torch this summer and get a legit tropical event(s).

No problem. Our tomatoes are going in this weekend. When I have the aforementioned setup in place, I'll post a follow up picture. One last tidbit. If you want to use liquid fertilizer, that's great and should be used right after the fruit forms. You really only need to feed the plants once a season. I strongly recommend against the tradition Miracle-Gro "blue" powdered fertilizer. It's so nitrogen heavy that you will only get an abundance of leaves. Try instead the Miracle-Gro Tomato Plant Food, it's an 18-18-21 mix with a decent amount of trace elements (copper, zinc, iron, maganese) that staves off blossom end rot, etc. if things get wet again. I love gardening and should have started the lawn & garden thread for the subforum this year.

As someone who regularly grows heirloom tomatoes, I have found it best to mix in some bone meal when planting tomatoes as it provides magnesium and calcium for the young plant. This mitigates the chance for blossom end rot. About two weeks after planting, I snake a drip hose through my bed, tack it to the soil with lawn pins and then cover everything with straw. The straw significantly reduces the splashing of rain and soil onto the lower parts of the plant and reduces the chance for fungus.

Likely HAARP and wind turbines...major gov interference! /chuck

Need nationwide phased array radar.

Lack of good regional planning.

Ready for the 90s and sun plz. My garden needs it.

Wow thank you for the update. One techy, semi geek question. Qho does the local diagnosis, is that your ITO? Do you have private contractors that fix the radar itself or is it NOAA tech staff?

Can @MGorse shed some light on what exactly broke?

They have a history of not being a clean spot. Bird in Hand restaurant and buffet is far, far better.

So much for that 60% chance of rain today. Perfect day for gardening and yard work.

LWX hydro section is really meh. Don't see how less than 2.5" is considered heavy, but each to their own I guess.

Sunny in Baltimore too.

I know there is an ongoing issue with point-and-click as well as the Enhanced Data Display (EDD) right now. Not sure what else is affected.

Eh, looking less and less impressive with each model cycle.

Here is a good article from NSSL about hail: https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/hail/

BWI 100 DCA 100 IAD 101 RIC 101 HGR 97

Fixed

Burned 2 houses down in Carroll County today for training. It was so damp we had a hard time getting things to take. Wasnt heavy rain but just steady and it stink bigly.

Woke up wondering the same thing. This smells like a bust.

How often do you see a box in a marginal risk?

If you look at the visible loop, there appears to be some low level boundary sitting NW -> SE on the VA side of the Potomac River.

Pity meso to our SW. https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/2019/md0514.html

As usual, the HRRR is HRRRible.