LongRanger

recent days have demonstrated how smoke vs clean air can lower ground-level air temperatures

2.05" today and a brief power outage

When the dew point is below freezing, does a sling psychrometer still function properly? I would think the wet bulb would ice up. That would both release latent heat and reduce evaporation, thus distorting the wet bulb measurement, no?

one of the better Cumulonimbus sightings of my life as an anvil topped cloud moves in from the west

38C just doesn't have the drama of 100F

There was a reason the higher-elevation NW burbs became popular for housing after the railroad but before AC. The adiabatic lapse rate is your friend.

Would be nice to do pollution control without letting in more sun and heat.

given recent tendencies, sounds like that means sprinkles Saturday and actual rain Sunday

still dry ground W of BWI

the cluster now in WV is headed our way, but will is survive the mountains?

52 for the max today, not bad for March

late snow? May 11, 1977 comes to mind

0.43" yesterday to bring April's total to 1.93"

it's spotty, 0.04" here

Down to 28 this morning W of BWI. I have no memory of a spring freeze around here after Apr 21.