Get ready! We predict cicadas will begin emerging next week. EDITED

[elleng]

Our first-ever cicada forecast calls for the bugs to really explode in about two weeks.

'A wave of summerlike weather is upon us and, as soils warm, soon the 17-year cicadas will emerge in astonishing numbers throughout the D.C. area.

As soon as soil temperatures reach about 64 degrees, the Brood X cicadas, last seen in our region in 2004, will be unleashed, scientists agree.

We’ve analyzed current soil temperatures and the weather projections and, in our first-ever cicada forecast, predict a noticeable emergence of cicadas next week, starting as soon as between May 3 and May 6. Then they should arrive in large numbers by the beginning of the following week, between May 10 and May 12.

Because it is currently so warm, do not be surprised to see a few early bloomers this week as well.

Once they come out of the ground, the cicadas should stick around for about a month before laying their eggs and dying off.' >>>

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/04/27/cicada-forecast-dc-early-may/?

EDIT: GOOD NEWS for Calvert, Charles, St. Mary's counties in MD (and Pr. William, Fauquier + Stafford counties, in VA,) we appear to be sort of out of the zone! (See diagram.)

[bottomofthehill]

1. Well this should be fun.

I have one dog that loves to eat bugs. It is going to be impossible to walk him for the next few months.

[IronLionZion]

4. maybe a dog mask

dog might be confused

[bottomofthehill]

5. probably not a bad idea. we have been wearing our people muzzles for over a year

He may like the idea, he already thinks he is a people

[Binkie The Clown]

2. Obviously that's all Biden's fault.

[AZ8theist]

7. Nope....

THANKS OBAMA!!

[doc03]

3. We had them 5 years ago. There seemed to

be far fewer of them than we had in the past. I have lived through 5 cycles of them in my lifetime. I was born in 1948
a cicada year, 1965, 1982, 1999 and 2016. I hope I live to see one more cicada year.

[CentralMass]

6. If I do the 17 year math back in 1987 I camped in the dunes at the national seashore

beach in VA and we soon became aware that it was a cicada year. However despite the at times really loud chirping it was a great trip. We had hit a roadside stand a bought a big bag of roasted peanuts in the shell.. We pulled into the site late so we put up the tent and crashed. In the morning we heard rustling and peeked out of the tent and realized we had left the large bag of peanuts out on the picnic table. There was a bushy squirrel that had gotten into it. He would pack as many as he could fit in his cheeks then scurry off and bury them in sand near the trees. We watched him work for an hour or so loading up his caches in different spots. Then on the beach if you layed down and looked to either side you would eventually see a pair of eyes on stalks pop up out of a hole in the sand and then crab attached to them would pop up and start scurrying sideways. If we popped up the crab would go scurrying back to its hole. It inspired us to sample the crab and other seafood at the area restaurants on a regularly basis.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. Oh noes! Initial cicada sightings are trickling in. Here's one ...

Oh noes! Initial cicada sightings are trickling in. Here's one CWG's
@dcstormchaser
lured out of its hole.

Read his latest: "The first cicadas are arriving, while the rest are on the brink": https://wapo.st/3aPmGye

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