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Warm to cool to ? - May Obs/Discussion Thread


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This. Not a thing in Cockeysville either - heard thunder during the evening but the storms all missed me.

I didn't eve hear thunder. I went fishing on the Potomac and never felt threatened by rain or lightning and left at about 3PM. NO rain on the trip from Smallwood park which is near La Plata to the very northern end of Calvert County. It was the second day of having huge Pops and not getting a drop. Upper lows west of the mountains can be great for those west of the city but for us easterners, we usually get screwed.

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shroom party at your house this weekend. WOOT!!!! LOL

Havent found any mushrooms here but the damn dog wont piss in the yard, she nows pees on the deck so Im constantly washing it off :axe:

Glad I'm not the only one with shrooms growing. Mine are popping up in the front mulch bed. They are tallish, thin and gray in color.

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I didn't eve hear thunder. I went fishing on the Potomac and never felt threatened by rain or lightning and left at about 3PM. NO rain on the trip from Smallwood park which is near La Plata to the very northern end of Calvert County. It was the second day of having huge Pops and not getting a drop. Upper lows west of the mountains can be great for those west of the city but for us easterners, we usually get screwed.

Watching radar last couple of days made me wonder is the relatively cool waters and east flow on the chesapeake kept a lid on convection in AA, Calvert, St Mary's, etc. The eastern shore had a good cluster of cells that basically hit a wall as they moved east towards the bay. It looked like most of the cells popping yesterday pretty much originated along and west of 95.

I'm sure the location of the ul low had plenty of influence but it still appeared to me that the marine influence of the bay played a role as well.

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Agreed. Typical Frederick split though. Looks like we'll get a couple light showers but main stuff to our east went North and the MoCo stuff went South. The third option is they dissipate before arriving.

We get thumbs up for consistency!

Starting to get very humid out today. I am doing Kindergarten Tye Die day and it is a bit toasty.

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If we (Prince William Cty) miss out, that will be fine with everyone here. I've had about 5" since Sunday evening and others just a few miles to my west and north have had around 8". Spread the wealth, I say. Looks like steering flow will likely keep storms moving just a bit more today/tonight and not be as stationary as the last 3 nights of repeated performances.

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Cloudy and a bit cooler in western Fairfax. Winds are picking up, too.

skies dark to my east towards your neck of the woods. That line moving NNE in southern Prince William county holds together we can get more rain later on this evening. i will take one more dose than let it dry out. Grass is out of control

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skies dark to my east towards your neck of the woods. That line moving NNE in southern Prince William county holds together we can get more rain later on this evening. i will take one more dose than let it dry out. Grass is out of control

At least the grass doesn't grow back in 15 minutes like the freaking mushrooms do.

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Well, in what could be our last chance at meaningful precip before the 4-month humid-desert season officially begins today, Stephens City whiffed again and again. Received a grand total of .40" of precip this week. Amazingly, while rainforest type conditions exist only minutes away, my grass is actually already tinged brown in the usual less-hearty areas. We've been very dry in southern Frederick Co this year. Last April and May we got around 12" of rain before the summer drought began. I haven't been recording this year, but I'm sure we haven't gotten even 4" this year. On the bright-side I won't be mowing much. By contrast, it has rained everyday the last 4 days in Front Royal, just 10 miles away. I was over there on Wed evening and watched it T-storm for 3 straight hours. They haven't received Prince William County-type rain, but they've had a lot.

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Watching radar last couple of days made me wonder is the relatively cool waters and east flow on the chesapeake kept a lid on convection in AA, Calvert, St Mary's, etc. The eastern shore had a good cluster of cells that basically hit a wall as they moved east towards the bay. It looked like most of the cells popping yesterday pretty much originated along and west of 95.

I'm sure the location of the ul low had plenty of influence but it still appeared to me that the marine influence of the bay played a role as well.

It probably did have some influence. I thought for my neck of the woods, the POPS were too high each day based on the pattern and time of year so I golfed and fished with impunity. That said, next time I'll probably get caught out in a storm. It is pretty dry around my house and heading into the coming heat, my garden is going to need water.

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