Eskimo Joe

The 850 temps sampled on the 18z special RAOB ahead of the line occurred only 5 times before in recorded history at the IAD site. You could tell early in the day on the 12z ILN site that something big was about to happen because the EML was evident so early in the morning. That airmass advected ahead of the complex and sustained it over the mountain. Reanalysis of the event showed that every meso model that correctly modeled the EML successfully predicted the derecho making it to the coastline. If there's on big takeaway from that event, it was that correctly sampling, identifying and modeling EMLs in the Mid Atlantic will significantly increase the ability of forecasters to anticipate these events and provide timely IDSS to the appropriate officials.

I agree. June 2012 was an anomalous event. We had extreme temps and a stout EML.

8/15 referenced events have a DC hotspots and we are overdue for a derecho in these parts from a climo perspective.

Storms saw that watch box get extended into Baltimore and nope'd right up into PA.

Baltimore Metro left out. Kinda weird orientation of the WCN.

Looks like a cap or something between 800 - 900 mb...stuff tries to get up and then just collapses.

Looks like we're getting a blue box later today: https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/2020/md0758.html

It seems that for today, we need to look to northern WV and far western MD. Most of the meso models are targeting this spot around 3:00 pm. That seems to be the benchmark.

Today looks really unimpressive.

Hey that's a neato tool. Where can a poster find that on SPC's site?

Td is 71° in Reisterstown.

Bad news for tomatoes and squash and melons. It's shaping up to be a tough year in the garden.

where was this during the winter

Friday reeks of scattered wet microburst, warn-on-4-red-pixels storms.

We should get that warmth in here just in time for Christmas.

WPC 7 day QPF total is less than 1.5" regionwide.

Perhaps I'm being a bit too pessimistic (there's a first), but it seems like temps on MOS are trending down below 80 after tomorrow and the POPs are more in the 50% - 70% chance now instead of the 30% to 50% they were a few days ago.

Rest of the week looks to turn cooler and wetter. Shocker. We might be struggling to get out of the 60s this weekend.

Pleasant Valley Fire Department in Carroll County has a good catch and release lake in front of their fire station.

Replaced the blade, spark plug, filter and drive belt on my Toro mower. Also changed out the oil...it's like a brand new machine.

Starting to think this might be the theme of the summer and we don't see any big heat. We're almost in June and it's been really cold and gloomy overall.

Over performed on temps today. Grids had 78 for Reisterstown and I'm sitting at 82. Farmers are really behind though with cold soil, so we need this warm weather. Corn, squash, pumpkins and melons aren't even planted yet.

We're now in summer...frogs crawling up the back sliding glass door, singing to their hearts delight, and the cats are having a freak out.