BlizzardNole

6-10 day at 8-14 day forecasts look good on temps! Hoping we are done with frost/freeze so I can get stuff in the ground. Very dry of course - I expect to have to water all summer. I'll just water the flower beds and let the grass go

Wow much nicer than I thought today! Partly sunny and 70. Bonus if we can score a thunderstorm this evening

Wow! That's just 0.5 less than I have had since JAN 1 0.53 since April 1 and had less than 0.9 for March

0.30. Even my forecast of 0.5 earlier in the week was too high. My formula: take the lowest amount of the range in the official forecast and cut in half I am looking at another month of below an inch total (March was just 0.85). Oh but we excel at thick overcast, chilly and wind for days. Wife retires soon and I cannot WAIT to get out of this disgusting climate

Looking at radar in central VA -- pivot?

The really sucky part is we still endure days on end of depressing cloudy skies and chilly temps. No rain but no sun either. What an awful spring climate

FIFY Hoping the rain shield expands NW later today. I predicted 0.5 a couple days ago when the goofy models were saying 1.5 plus for my area. I'd be happy with 0.5 at this point!

My parents in Calvert have 11 inches precip on the year compared to 4.9 in Germantown. Their plants are happy while I'm having to water even established shrubs. Going to be a long, drought-stricken summer with expensive water bills with all the sprinkling

Nice afternoon once we got to the low 50s. My hydrangeas had started leafing out and those new leaves are dead. Even my tough butterfly bushes look a little rough

GFS has the right idea with the precip hole over central MD

28 near Germantown but 21 at Gaithersburg airport. It's an outlier but that airport is in a hole and can get way down there with no wind and radiational cooling. Reminds me of Tallahassee in winter where it would be 40 in town and 23 at the airport in a hole 8 miles away

I am going with 0.5 in Germantown

Got 0.25. Total for year is 4.79 while parents in northern Calvert at 10.43. They also blew my area out in snowfall total with 20-plus compared to 10

Why does that sound so familiar LOL! Guess we turn towards the next drizzle fest later this week

Sorry but LOL at that map with 1.35 over me. More like 0.135