Into some lives, a little rain
It still hasn't rained on my gauge in Cockeysville. But BWI did pick up another .27 inch around breakfast time today. That makes a half-inch on the nose for the month - all in the last two days, and courtesy, it appears, of Hurricane Ophelia. It's the first rain we've at the airport seen since Aug. 28.
The forecast holds out hope for a bit more over the next few days, as Ophelia makes her way up the coast, and a cool front approaches from the west.
In the meantime, the scarcity of rain seems to have had some beneficial effects on bay grasses and the aquatic life they sustain in the Chesapeake Bay - at least in the Susquehanna Flats near Havre de Grace. See Candy Thomson's report in today's Sun.
