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That looks awful. I definitely wouldn’t want to be your neighbor.

^ It was really thoughtful of the guy at 2:30 to put his blinker on when he turned into the parking lot.

It's going to kind of suck, but we know that these temps will followed pretty closely by more of what we're seeing today. I love summer and hot temps, but once the kids are back in school and the pool closes, I'm ready for 70/50.

Nice. Should still work out for you guys! Our pool stayed open for an extra weekend or two in 2021 (I think). From what I recall, the weather didn't cooperate, so no one really used it. Tough call when your pool is trying to cut some costs and the weather could either be nice and toasty or cloudy and cool. Hell...even the bright, sunny days can end with temps in the breezy 60s by a little after dinnertime and the sun going down behind the trees. Not the best swimming weather at that point!

Cool for the last week of pool season, then the heat arrives after the pool closes. Hate.

104 for days on end? If so, I need to get my AC fixed, pronto.

Yup...Burke is in serious need of some Manscaping.

We've had plenty of rain and are still losing some leaves. Just a normal process as the trees have been sucking up lots of water throughout the summer and shed some leaves to keep from becoming too dry. I'm sure places that have gotten less rain would lose more leaves, but it's not really a strange occurrence.

Hindsight is 20/20, but we had all kinds of folks on here stating that they didn't think NHC should have doubled down on their call for an above-average season. I didn't point it out at the time, but it always amazes me when people think they know so much better than experts. Experts can be wrong, of course, but it seemed pretty obvious that they were confident coming into mid-August despite the basin looking dead for a long time prior.

Folks still saying they know better than the NHC's calls for an active remainder of the season?

Definitely cleared out here in Burke. Awaiting my derecho.

Ah...I hadn't checked the Euro before I posted. The GFS has an area of unsettled weather in the southern Gulf around that time, so maybe there's something to it. Icon has similar...

Not that far out there, either. Of course, homebrew can spin up at a moment's notice, but we'd "want" to start seeing this pop up on other guidance relatively soon.

No doubt that we have very little wiggle room. I just choose not to get worked up over something that hasn't happened yet because...we just can't know. We've sucked so hard recently that having another sucky winter would result in a "Meh" from me. It would be annoying and I'd be really disappointed for my kids not getting to get some actual snow days and play in the snow, but I'd just move on and hope things were better next year!

We're not punting anything. FFS.

Jorts and Natty Light for Christmas.

I noped TF out of a rickety-ass enlisted barracks-turned office space on Andrews AFB. Tried standing in a doorway to start, and when that thing swayed like a reed in the wind I ran the hell outside.

I haven't done cucumbers in a couple years - been doing cantaloupe instead. H Mart has Kirby cucumbers at a good price, so I just get those for pickling. I'm hoping to make some smoked salsa this weekend. Tomatoes, jalapenos, and garlic from the garden form the base of probably 10-12 Ball jars of salsa. Made it for the first time two seasons ago and it turned out amazing!

I just planted lettuce, broccoli, spinach, and mache seeds yesterday. Seed garlic cloves will go into the ground around Halloween in preparation for harvest around the Fourth of July (give or take a week or two).

That happens in my area, as well. There's a small ridge that runs SW->NE right through my neighborhood, and you can tell the difference in temp on the cool mornings. There's a park and trail that run along a creek that's probably ~40' lower than the lowest section of neighborhood and you can really feel it down there. The biggest difference I've noticed is on a trail a couple miles away. You round this bend near the creek and there's a section about 100 yards long that's no more than 10' lower than the area surrounding it and the temp difference is pretty amazing.

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Maybe I just haven't been paying attention, but I can't recall seeing a system that rides so closely against the Baja coast and runs into southern California like the GFS is showing for early next week.

A little surprised that the Kings Park West CoCoRaHs (about 2.5 miles away) reported slightly over 0.5" of rain from yesterday (the one almost around the corner hasn't reported). Just a very rough measurement of water that collected in a Home Depot bucket would have put MBY somewhere close to 1.00". No matter what, definitely nice to get a few inches on the board in preparation for our upcoming drought.

I noticed that on the meso runs this morning. The storm yesterday caught me flush just as it blew up (almost split me, but nope) and we ended up on the highest end of the precip totals, while today we just got striped and will likely end up with highest totals again, especially if one of these cells to the SW grows a bit and hits us again.