mattie g

What’s the status of the nest?

You got it wrong. You need to complain here.

I use the Sirius/XM skill on our Echo - works really well. I only use the app when we're away from the house, and I usually connect it to a fairly simple bluetooth speaker. I haven't had any issues with crashing or freezing though.

Not sure I beat that. Now…I picked up about 2.00” of rain in the last 72 hours, so I’m not complaining. I also (kinda) don’t want tennis ball hail hitting my house.

I'm pulling for you.

I'm fine with the occasional non-BA stout, but I feel like too many of them lack depth. Adding that barrel (successfully) totally transforms them.

No barrel, no care.

That line is seriously trucking through the WV panhandle right now.

That's the spirit! (see what I did there?)

Damn...that's one pillowy hand. Watch out for those things being super pissed off at you for spraying them. The nest we dealt with was way inside that shrub, and actually incorporated multiple live branches into it, so it was tough to get a good shot at the entrance. I had to get up close to get a good hit on it, which is why I put on so many layers. Great thing is that it was about 95 degrees and humid the day I did it, so I was about 30 seconds from passing out by the time I was done.

Yup - that's them. They'll leave you alone if you don't rile them up, but once they get going they're nasty as hell. We had a huge nest in a shrub in our front yard a two summers ago, but we had no idea it was there. Our neighbor got stung while mowing the lawn after getting too close to the shrub, but we still didn't see it. A few days later, my wife pushed the mower right up under the shrub and got tagged 4-5 times. Of course, she's (truly) deathly allergic to bee stings and she didn't have an epi-pen on hand, so we had to call 911. I went out the next day in about five layers of clothes and a makeshift helmet and sprayed the thing with a full can of wasp and hornet killer. Hit it again the day after that. After a few days, there was a pile of a couple hundred dead hornets on the ground, so I carefully removed the nest. Luckily, nothing in that nest was left alive.

Bald-faced hornets?

Wow...crazy that your in-laws are only a mile away. As that line formed, I was right on the edge of a split, so we got very light rain consisting of huge drops. It then filled in right over us and developed more to our NW, which then slid over us. Some of the heaviest rain I've seen this summer.

Agreed. It poured buckets for 10 minutes or so, though we didn't get a ton of lightning/thunder. Closest PWS hasn't reported yet, but there's one not too far away (just to the NNE) that came in with just under an inch. I'm thinking we went a little over that.

I know there's a lot of CAPE, but I honestly have no idea how to read what's in the rest of the soundings...

Didn’t get much lightning or wind with the cell that stretched NNW-SSE through Burke, but it absolutely pissed down rain for about 10 minutes, with decent-enough rains leading into it. Pleasant surprise tonight.

I assume they're referring to PA, NJ, DE, and MD when talking about the Mid-Atlantic.

I've seen maybe 3 movies in a theater in the last 10 years, and we haven't taken advantage of the Disney/HBOMax offerings yet. I'm just not much of a movie person, though I can really get into them if the story interests me and/or the filmmaking is of exceptional quality.

TL;DR AmWx Mid-Atlantic fail tomorrow.

So...we'll never see those alerts?

Ah...that popped up after I looked before. It's only a few miles to my NNE, and that number makes a lot more sense.

The two closest CoCoRaHS reports come in at 0.26" and 0.56". That honestly seems low given the amount of water that fell from the sky for 20-30 minutes. Our pond is also nearly overflowing, whereas before the rain there was well over an inch between the water level and the top of the pond.

And many of us (me) will complain about that, too.