Bubbler86

That is pretty amazing that a simple hour away the grass is growing that quickly in early April. I would blame it on my well know grass issues but no one here is mowing. We are almost half way through Spring and have yet to experience it on ground truth.

Your grass is going to need two mowings next week! I jsut looked at mine and its not going to need a cut this week. Maybe next week. Definitely greened up a bit.

A glistening and sunny 36 here this AM. Some frost of the roofs and grass.

I expect a virtual "rinse and repeat" of this sequence on both Saturday and Sunday, except that highs will only be in the low-to-mid 50s Saturday and around 50 on Sunday. The core of the coldest air will settle over the mid-Atlantic from Saturday evening through Sunday afternoon, so don't be surprised to see some graupel or wet snowflakes mix in with the rain showers. We've already seen this happen a few times under similar conditions during the past 2 weeks, so there's plenty of reason to believe it will happen again this weekend. When disturbances combine with temperatures that rapidly decrease with increasing height above the ground, graupel (or "soft hail") is actually quite common. Graupel is simply a form of precipitation that occurs when supercooled water droplets accumulate and freeze on falling snowflakes. Add in gusty, west-to-northwesterly winds of 10-20 mph on Saturday and 20-30 mph on Sunday, and we'll have the "full course meal" of miserable weather conditions for the entire weekend (yet again ☹️). Low temperatures on Saturday night will drop into the 30s, and I'm growing more concerned about a widespread frost or freeze early Monday morning. The large-scale trough will gradually lift into northern New England and the Canadian Maritimes Sunday night into Monday, allowing an area of high pressure to build into the central Appalachians and southern mid-Atlantic region. Clearing skies and diminishing winds will create the ideal setting for radiational cooling Sunday night -- hence my concern for lows around freezing (32 degrees F) Monday morning.

https://www.iweathernet.com/total-rainfall-map-24-hours-to-72-hours

Maybe after 48 hours. It truly looks like two weekends ago.

18Z HRRR with a great graphic portrayal of the possibility for sun induced/rounding energy supported popcorn rain and snow showers starting to fire Saturday afternoon as the base of the trough passes WAY to our south. Included 10-1 accums as of 2PM Saturday. Probably well over b lown but a graphic of where it could lay some.

I did not know his name, cool. He was good at not allowing the moment to ruin his Mojo. He is a true glass half full guy! The Phil's could be down 7 and he still sounded like he was announcing the start of an SNL episode as the Phil's came to bat. Contrast with some NBA announcers who sometimes whisper when their team scores but is down 20 in the 4th. LOL.

I always loved the feel when the Phillies came to bat in the bottom of the first. It started off with a crescendoing Organ sound then "Center fielder, Lenny Dykstra"

Second only to Tony Gwynn, the Padres next best hitter wore shorts for most of his career.

I have to bring up Jeltz every time I can. I guess I forgot we talked about this last year. Ha.

This sports fan discussion is an interesting one. As a child, I remember sitting second row behind the goalie at the Capital Centre, in 1976, and some Isles fan's yelling expletive's at Caps goalie Bernie Wolfe...and my dad asking them to stop due to my presence. Many people will say that fans are worse today but they were no treat back then either.

Being one (but not from Balllllston) I would throw out the guess that it is more the attitude of the people vs. the team itself. The same people are intolerable at work.

People like to buy cars from sports players. LOL Another piece of Trivia and Jeltz that day...he hit the two HR's from opposites sides of the plate.

Yep, cut off lows and dreary.

Min 43 to watch the second Jeltz HR LOL. Harry Kalas had a great call of this but cnanot find it right now. I was behind home plate, fairly high up for this game. Used to be a huge Phillies fan but just occasional now. @TimBmust not be monitoring our thread right now.

A moderately strong storm just south of the M/D really rocking the boat here now.

Yep, get your walking shoes on Rooker. The Jet is gonna to blast two homers today (and he did not start!)

Well I did just comment that most Red Sox fans are obnoxious/cocky. The racism thing is a Boston issue as well...in and out of sports. But I have gone to games in many other cities...Buffalo, Tampa, NY (Long Island), etc...and I still opine that Philly fans have been harder to deal with. Politely cheering for your team has a greater than average chance of ending up with beer on yourself.

There is more trash throwing, pissing on other fans, and swearing in front of children in Philly than "average". After one hockey game almost the entire stadium was chanting "F*** Ovechkin" on the way out of the stadium. It was shaking the the whole building. But I agree every fan base has some of those people. I lived in Philly for over a decade so am more than qualified for my opinion. :-)

Well I am unsure if this is a joke or not but I suspect I have gone to more sporting events in Philly than anyone except maybe Training. Easily over 500. The fans are some of the rudest I have ever encountered. I was at every game that Steve Jeltz hit a HR at the Vet. (a rare feat). Most Philly fans are proud of their reputation.

Yea, it does feel good when ones own stadium gets overrun but Red Sox or Yankees fans....and your team does something to hurt them. Most Red Sox fans are a bit cocky, IMO.

12Z moved it a bit North

Ours was a minor storm but some some flashes and probably a dozen thunders. It did pour though.