MN Transplant

I actually bought a new bucket with the leaf guard and the bird spikes and it has been solid.

Would be surprised if it was broken. What can happen is that a leaf or small twig gets stuck and stops the tipping bucket mechanism.

Not only hasn’t it rained over the past two months, there has been nearly no wind. Things are flying off the trees, mostly pine needles in my backyard.

This one was timed really well for the normal rush hour DC-area commutes.

1.41". Always pleasant to end up on the high side of the guidance.

Yeah, averaging around 0.4"/hr but with some higher spurts. 0.97" now. Good performer.

0.70" at home, 0.68" at DCA per the 5 minute obs.

There is free water falling from the sky. Amazing. 0.29"

Gfs up to 3/4” for DC

Yeah, backed off a bit again, but when the low spots in the immediate region are >0.4" I still count that as a good run.

I like the way the 3km NAM runs at 00z and 06z came around to the heavy rain solution after being a very dry holdout. Nice gusty, Fall-like day in store for Thursday.

North Dakota’s closed. Moose out front should have told ya.

I don't think that is it, the ceilings were way too high for what would almost certainly have been a drizzle patch. I went back to look at the 200 loop CoD radar image and I'm stumped. There are two areas, one starting in western Baltimore and another in Tacoma Park. They drift SSE which does align with the wind direction. If you look at the polarimetric parameters it clearly isn't precipitation, but you'd expect a different Zdr if it was birds (migration was my first guess). It also isn't vehicles. Those show up much sharper on radar right along the roadway when there is a good inversion. This became more diffuse. My guess is still biological, but what I'm not sure.

0.06" also here. I have to go back to August 24th to cumulatively add up to over 1" of precip.

Lies

Courier New! You haven't extended the length of a paper unless you make sure that an l is the same width as a w.

58 nearing noon. Perfect!

We are going to put up a fat + departure today post-frontal. Amazing. Blew the midnight high.

Sun peeking through here. DCA did bottom at 75 this morning, so if that holds through midnight it will tie the highest October low temp on record.

Monthly record high min appears to be in play at DCA. Record is 75 and we've either been to 75 or 76 so far this morning. With the front not coming until after midnight, we could stay elevated. Midnight high definitely in play for tomorrow and maybe still today.

89.9 at home. IAD at 91 already is mind-boggling. As EJ says, stupid river.

Midnight high potentials on Thurs or Friday depending on where the backside stalls.

Yeah, the models really caught on to the back door possibilities yesterday. Looks like Wednesday will be the last day of "summer" from DC N&E. Richmond has to wait one more day.

0.01" at DCA puts us at 0.12" for the month. Eat dust (literally) 2005!

He is just shellshocked at this point. Even in the rare cases when he does have time he looks uncomfortable with the ball. Putting a pocket passer behind a wet paper bag of an OL was not a good idea. That said, Washington saw today why Case wasn’t the answer either.