mattie g

We're having a big get together for the US-England World Cup match on Black Friday, so putting up the lights the day before Thanksgiving might not be a terrible idea!

Today, Holiday Traditions replaced 40s Junction on Sirius/XM Channel 71. We like listening to 40s Junction during dinner sometimes, but we gotta hold off on the Christmas stuff for at least a few more weeks. We could just go with Siriusly Sinatra instead...

There's a 50/50 in some of those extended looks, which would go a long way to helping us get just cold enough at that time of the season. We'd just need to time it right, which we all know we do quite well.

Of course it's statistically less likely to happen on any year, but it's even more annoying today because 1) it's happening this year and 2) it's sandwiched between two dry spells. I just hope we get showers early on and then it dries out for a few hours for the kids to get out and about without umbrellas!

I'm a bit annoyed that we're getting some rain on Halloween when it's been dry recently and will dry out again starting tomorrow.

What’s the use of this thread if not to go full weenie?

Good point about not having much rain since we started to peak. It’s been a wonderful fall/peeping season so far!

I'll take the 48-hour SWFE with precip falling into 20 degree air.

There has to be at least one nondescript, three-story, maroon-ish data center building out there.

Fair enough. My garlic always replaces tomatoes, but if I get it in now or in 2-3 weeks, it won't really matter come spring. Obs: It's chilly this morning.

Good thing it's only a 360-hr prog for early November. As long as our source region gets cold, give me a massive torch here throughout November. Would probably be near-perfect weather.

You've been dying for your vegetation to get killed off. Sorry it hasn't happened yet. My tomatoes are still going.

That's fair, but I'm always curious about the MJO since it seems that it really helps to drive a lot of what happens downstream. I've always been honest about my relative lack of weather knowledge compared to many folks on here, so no one should ever take my non-obs, weather-related posts too terribly seriously.

Same happened here about an hour ago. Now it's about to drizzle.

I have no idea what would be required for that 500mb look to come to fruition, but goddamn is that tasty. In the end, only one of those winters was decent, but whatever. I just figure that no two seasons will work out exactly the same, though I'm sure some of our resident savants will remember how lucky or unlucky we were in those three years.

I don't know why anyone would get worked up over a 10+day general outlook and if it flips.

I can already hear the drip, drip in that video....

Looks fairly warm and dry through Thursday, no?

I feel like I've underseeded in the past - just reluctant to lay down much seed, especially in obviously thinner locations. For some reason, I just have a poor record with growing new sections of grass or filling in thin patches despite my general success with gardening. My garden is still humming along...if getting a little ragged. I topped my tomatoes last weekend and still have lots of tomatoes on the vines. Jalapenos are still doing fine, as well! That lack of a recent freeze has prolonged my season for at least a couple more weeks. As soon as the tomatoes come down, I'll get my garlic in.

Damn! We got some drizzle here and there, with maybe a 30-second burst of light rain. Radar looked like it was going to be a little more, but it hit a wall and basically stopped right at my doorstep. Basically a much better day to be farther east if you wanted precip.

How'd it go? We had quite a few kids from our summer team that swam in that meet, and by all accounts lots of them did well. My 9-year-old decided that she didn't want to do year-round swim this year (she doesn't like the meets AT ALL), so she's only swimming with our summer team at Audrey Moore on Sunday evenings. The amazing thing is that, even only swimming for an hour a week I can see real improvement. If only she'd have stuck with year-round again this year I think she might have made even more strides...but it's her choice!

Looking forward to multiple runs this year that maul South Carolina with 30" under 240 hours, only for the ultimate solution to be some wet snow in Garrett County.

The earliest trees in my area are basically bare at this point, with some just barely having turned and others in full color. My neighborhood (especially a few of my immediate neighbors) has lots of huge beech trees that seem to take forever to fully drop, but they're kind of nice to have around to admire the colors - they're a nice mix of green, yellow, and orange right now. But those things shed leaves and nuts and husks all year round. So frustrating...

You’re young. We don’t feel bad for you.

^^ I think I'll pass on getting my hopes up for a snowstorm during the beginning of November.