A nice little rain
The rain that started in the small hours of the morning has dropped 0.86 inch so far on The Sun's new weather station just off Centre Street downtown. Instruments at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport have recorded 0.78 inch. Annapolis has seen 0.77 inch.
Blame a storm center off the Carolina coast, which has been kind of pokey in moving out of the region. That's kept this cool, wet flow of air coming at us from off the Atlantic. Here's AccuWeather's take on it. Once it decides to clear out, the skies should clear for the weekend.
Be thankful you're not a merchant seaman, bucking the Atlantic out where Hurricane Gordon is spinning. Gordo is a Category 3 storm at last check, with top sustained winds over 120 mph. It's the first major (Cat. 3 or higher) storm of the season. He's moving harmlessly off to the northeast, but he sure is good looking.
