Mrs.J

Sometimes you just know. We are left with way less surprises anymore anyways. And this is coming from a person who does not like surprises.

Was heading home from NOVA tonight. While the sunset to the West was beautiful, the view going East was amazing! It looked like cotton candy.

There is white stuff flying over here in Frederick.

My station down here in SW Fred ended at 3.39”

Was at 2” at 7:30. Up to 3” now at 9.

Just hit 2” here. Back under some heavy rain currently.

Was out early this morning shopping. Am back out to pick up the kid from school and the smoke has really gotten thick over here in Frederick.

Just cleaned out my front garden beds and am dripping in sweat. 75 her with a Dew of 63.

So I saw a meteor fly over my house around 7:37 tonight. Took to Twitter and others saw it as well.

They all love to do that!

Current sitting in the car just outside of Leesburg. The younger Miss J has an IEA horse show today and they really want to run it outside. So it looks like they may be waiting for the rain to at least let up before they start. There will be no staying clean today.

I see some for Frederick Co although it shows they are not finalized yet. I hope they happen. The reason I got a weather station was the lack of weather reporting for this area.

I think I am done with rain finally for the system. 2.12” total from the start to finish.

58 out with .73”. The younger Miss J went with a friend to the Frederick Fair. Midway was shut down but they enjoy all the exhibits and animals anyways. Still came home with two fish they won.

Found this.

It is amazing how much the grass has rebounded after a very dry end of summer. 61 and have .28” IMBY.

My area has been bad. And we finally got measurable rain the past 3 days. Not sure what rain god I impressed but seeing even dry areas are finally getting some. Sorry that your area is still in the rain hole. Hope you get some rain soon like my area finally has. I think I know what 2 rivers you are talking about.

We are getting rained on! A nice steady rain pushing through. It feels so nice out and smells good. It has been way too long since having a good steady rain.

Having trouble sleeping and watching that storm off to my NW in Wash Co. It has a lot of lightning on it.

Probably was. We just got in the northern edge of that and picked up another .16" to put todays total at 1.16". Need way more but will take it.

Storm just to my south is throwing off lightning all over. Just had a huge bolt and crack of thunder. ETA got just into the edge of it and getting so more rain.

I was worried about getting onto 15. Got on at Motter Ave and it immediately was slow. But surprisingly everyone was going slow and letting traffic merge. I expected at least one accident but got back down to the 340 exit in about 15 min. Miss J was geeking out in the car with me at the lightning strikes. Raining so hard at sometimes it was deafening. But yes jackpot in my book after a pretty abysmal rain parched summer.

Just got home from picking the younger Miss J up from Frederick Community College. She has a dual enrollment class. The storm hit just as we pulled out. I have to get on 15 S to get home and debated winding our way through downtown Frederick, but decided any way it would just be a slow go. With traffic moving at a crawl, we got a spectacular show of lightning and small hail. Mr. J just showed me that the hail here at the house was about 1/4" diameter. My PWS is showing .99" off that cell. A lot of ponding over a lot of roads here as water was just running off the dry ground.

11:00 and it is 78 out.

So not only have the trees started to drop leaves due to the drought conditions up here. Just this weekend I started to notice corn fields, that usually are not cut down till well into Oct/Nov, are being cut early due to no ears of corn on them. These are the feed corn fields. And what has not yet been cut the stalks are already drying out. There are a few hold outs still trying to keep their lawns somewhat green. But most including myself gave up months ago. My drought tolerant plants are still holding on but I think I have lost a brand new mini azalea bush. I am hoping it has just gone dormant. The tree line behind my house is really struggling to keep leaves on. Now this oppressive heat building back in for a few days which will keep us all inside again. I do not expect much fall foliage over here at all this year.