LongRanger

By now it seems 09-10 must have been a dream. Nina? Pinta? Heck, I'm praying to Santa María.

we're all thinking it, so I'll be the first to post BWI: 0.0 DCA: 0.0 IAD: 0.0 RIC: 0.0 Tiebreaker (SBY): 0

BWI again 4 degrees colder than my station. For decades, my station's daily mins have routinely been 1 to 2 degrees colder than BWI. That all changed suddenly when Mr Freeze took up residence at BWI this month.

74 after a 41 min here, which translates at BWI to 78 after a min of 12. Two weeks of rain each day, followed by two weeks of near-cloudless skies.

BWI has been about 5 degrees colder than MBY, and MBY is several hundred feet higher in elevation. Only way I see that actually happening is during calm winds for most/all of the night, which has not been the case lately. Something is goofy with the recent BWI temps.

There's more dryness under trees because less dew forms there overnight compared to uncovered areas where more radiational cooling can occur.

Today demolished the multi-decade record for consecutive days with increasing daily minimum temp at my station. The old count (prior to this stretch) was 5, the new count is 8. I do not expect to ever see a longer such stretch here.

Since a low of 52 at my station Aug 21, the daily min has ticked up for 6 consecutive days. I don't believe I've ever seen that happen before across decades of observations. If tonight's forecast is correct, that will bump to 7 consecutive.

The down side is clean air lets in more light, which means more global warming. https://skepticalscience.com/global-cooling-mid-20th-century-advanced.htm

What's with BWI's hourly temp obs always being a whole number, or ending in .1 or .9? https://forecast.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KBWI.html

DCA: 98 IAD: 100 BWI: 102 RIC: 98

Thundersnow incoming? From 1023 AFDLWX: Some lightning was being detected over southern Missouri, indicating elevated instability and strong, deep lift via low-level frontogenesis and very strong upper-level divergence in the left exit region of an incoming jet streak.

Euro handles El Nino years better, GFS does well during La Nina

besides, what other group of scientists has their own pro baseball team in New York?

I'd participate but don't care for yet another app. For example, GroupMe's Sign up now button does nothing here. It needs to be simpler.

Marylandwx's radar used to be good, but has been down for awhile, it might be months

thanks, but COD's stuff is not simple enough (it needs javascript to work) there are many js based radar anims, I'm looking for one that's simply gif or png

anyone have a link to a simple mid atlantic wx radar animation, a gif or png? weather underground's radar had fit the bill, but it's been broken all of July, showing content that's 1 to 36 hours out of date, which isn't exactly helpful for tracking local severe

what about San Diego?

random fluctuations since averages of smaller sample sizes always have more outliers than averages of larger samples

what you see is due to smoothing of the data so the normal means plot along a sine-wave-like curve the same smoothing had been done on the 1971-2000 data as well, if it had not a January thaw would have appeared in a plot of the POR means

I suggest that all Met undergrads test the real-world market as soon as they can. For example, make your interests known to your professors, volunteer on grad research projects, seek out industry internships both public and private. This is a way to learn not only the science but also the level of demand for your skills. When I was an undergrad, I learned the grad research projects already had more people than they needed, so my volunteer efforts were put to little use. I applied for internships, but got none. I did radio broadcasting, but rather than mention my forecasts people commented on my voice, and I got paying gigs for voiceovers that had nothing to do with weather. All that told me that Met demand was low. So before it was too late I switched majors to computing, and again tested the real-world market. The difference in demand was stunning: very soon I was running a small computer business from my dorm room. Even at the high school level those interested in weather can and should start checking out the market. In the process you'll also discover your other talents and interests. Don't wait until you graduate college to find out, or you might wind up settling for a job you don't like. Meteorology is fascinating, and I admire those who can make a career out of it. Start early learning if you can be one of those.

I saw that writing on the wall back when I was a meteorology student decades ago. Back then I observed that even volunteering at no pay did not draw interest. When I switched to computer science, within months I had companies out bidding each other for my work. Given how much is automated now, I can easily imagine the job situation in meteorology is even worse these days. I'm glad I kept the science as a hobby but made a career out of something in more demand.