Paleocene

Thought you all may appreciate this. I am visiting in-laws near Bar Harbor/Ellsworth Maine. We went antiquing today and I stumbled across this fun little mid century modern analog weather instrument. Of course I impulse bought it (it was cheap). The temp and barometer appear to be accurate. Humidity, TBD. Based on a little metal tag on the top it appears to have been given by the American Motors Corporation to a champion salesman as a desktop trinket some years ago. I was born in the 80s so it gets an "older than me" rating based on font/general look but I'm honestly not sure how old it is. Bonus pic of Acadia National Park, taken from across Frenchman Bay under yesterday's high cloud deck in the late afternoon, attached. It was 58 degrees!

Yeah, making MARC from Frederick to DC fast and frequent would go a long way to helping with the commuter backups.

Yeah this has never made sense to me. There are topographic challenges that would probably make widening more expensive. But it's especially weird given how 70 is three lanes for much (all?) of the Frederick - Baltimore leg. And 270 carries more traffic! https://roads.maryland.gov/mdotsha/pages/Index.aspx?PageId=792

BW parkway is terrible and straight up dangerous honestly. So is that stretch of 270. Those two take the cake for my least favorite limited access highways in MD.

At around 830 there were very scattered raindrops that barely made it to the ground in Silver Spring. Looking at hi-res radar, some sprinkles went through eastern moco/northern PGC around that time.

Rooting for the 3K NAM.

Mowed the lawn at 730am. Was cloudy and breezy so not so bad. Haven't mowed for two weeks...may be the last time in a while lol.

Yeah, we are gonna bake today.

EPA regs and the decline of coal power are huge. I also think, but haven't seen good quantification yet (please link me if you have it) that we're really benefitting from two additional things in this decade. One, the rapidly increasing share of solar and other renewable power. Two, increasing share of hybrids and EVs in the aggregate vehicle fleet. Hopefully we can eventually clean up all the small engine crap out there too. I was born in the 80s and remember the 90s-early 00s haze and hope we never go back!

93F at my nearest weatherbug, and certainly feels that way in the full sun. DP of 68 and humidity at 49%, which imo makes being in the shade still nice if there's a slight breeze. Seems like the breeze is dying though. Neighborhood parks/ball fields are scorched and crunchy. Forests will start to droop and lose leaves if this continues, too.

A pleasant evening watching the fireflies, who enjoy this heat apparently, in my backyard in silver spring. The humidity is totally fine. About 80 degrees at 9pm.

I believe it - just got home after being gone for 120 hours and the brown-out of the lawn is quite noticeable in my sunnier spots. It's dry and crispy out there.

The weather has been stupendously nice on the lower Jersey shore the past few days. Unfortunately, headed home tomorrow.

The heat in the UHI is legit. You will not find it to be cool on most july-august mornings, special once the sun is up. 10 degrees warmer than the hinterland counties by 8am easily

Enjoy the green now. Never gonna rain again

Goodness the humidity is oppressive.

Indeed. Here are daily production numbers for each month. May 4 - 18 was a terrible stretch; basically only one sunny day.

Ended up barely squeaking by April production thanks to a couple sunny days at the end of the month. First year, so no comparisons. But 919 in April versus 970 in May.

Good write-up on AI/weather: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/06/as-a-potentially-historic-hurricane-season-looms-can-ai-forecast-models-help/

Looks like you're right for those of us around the top quadrant of the beltway

Impressive lightning and debris clouds before a 10 min downpour in Silver Spring just inside the beltway.

DCA 100 IAD 99 BWI 100 RIC 101

We must have similar size systems. I hit 919 in April; 502 thus far in May.

Yes, my May production has been awful! It may come in below March :-(

i appreciate sunny days in january and february, but I would gladly trade those for some sun now.