Paleocene

Yep. Dumping in Riverdale

We have family we visit near there. Happens in July and August on the regular. Never truly summer there

The updated CPC map (from yesterday) has us in an even higher probability contour. We gonna cook

I miss the sun

CPC likes the period

Misty and dreary here.

Smoke in the DC burbs now? Smells like a campfire outside

Yep. Can verify from near downtown silver spring that we only got like a tenth, enough to wet the grass. But it felt like a monsoon was coming - lots of lightning and thunder. We missed it.

Sad. I have a cluster of old neglected backyards and trees on my block so we get a bunch of them.

Decent number of fireflies out in my yard the past couple nights.

Feels like DC summer is fully set in here in the inner burbs.

Mostly miss on the hit and miss yesterday... couple tenths at most. Juicy out there.

warm/wet, then warm/dry?

When I was a teenager in Central PA in the early 00s there was a a summer where we had really bad Canadian wildfire smoke - I think it was 2002. Here's an old paywalled news story about it: https://www.morningjournal.com/2002/07/08/smoke-from-canada-forest-fires-blankets-northeastern-states/ I agree with you and @WxUSAF that it seems to be more frequent post 2020. There is an interesting branch of climate research that deals with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrocene

Smoke is definitely starting to blow into the area up high. Was all blue here wall-to-wall in the morning but now the Western sky is definitely milky gray, east more blue.

My cucumbers and tomatoes have barely grown at all in the past month. Looks like lows in then 60s the rest of the week though.

Multiple rounds of heavy showers and thunder since noon in silver spring, after a pleasant morning.

Final squally/gusty line was intense IMBY after 830. gonna find branches down in the nhood tomorrow. Power didn't flicker though

Yep. In the winter, it's do or die and cliff jumping when the models aren't right enough. In the summer, barely anyone notices, and if you do notice, it's just mildly annoying.

@Eskimo Joe nice. Will you all be adding any Moco stations?

Look around at the intersection of Route 1 and MD 410 (east-west highway). It was at the southeast corner near Beale Circle. I was surprised it was there, because that's more than 1/2 mile from the nearest waterways, the northeast and northwest branches of the Anacostia. That may be a better place to go looking, along the parks (which are nice). But yesterday it was a swamp everywhere in that neck of the woods during the rainstorm. After looking at better pics on my computer, it was definitely a yellow-crowned night heron. The legs gave it away. I have better vision than my phone zoom, which is not good at 200 feet away.

Any birders out there? I'm not really I just use the Merlin app. I saw this friend while driving in Riverdale MD today. Rough photo cuz it was at a distance when I was stopped at a light. I did a double take because I don't think I've ever seen one. Night Heron? It was poking its rather impressive beak into a rainwater pond.

Over 0.5" in the 24 hours to 7AM... and a lot more to come after that. Looking forward to a green June

Feels unprecedented for the may 15-sept 15 period, at least here in UHI land. Loving it. No AC

Time to cook once we get to June? Matches CAPE's map above.