pazzo83

59/59 right now on Tenleytown - serious snow-eater stuff. High of 65, same as DCA.

Well I mean you shouldn't use it for that. Would we use Central Park to describe the climate of someone living in Orange County NY or something? No - it's the climate site for the city. But since these sites tend to have the longest/most uninterrupted/verified climate record, they are the ones mot often cited.

The main issue with DCA is being right on the river - but that can keep it a degree or two cooler than the rest of the city just as much as it might keep it warmer. The optimal site is probably like the White House or some place in Dupont/Columbia Heights.

i live in the highest part of DC and we are usually within one or two degrees, even at night.

hey man it's not so bad - you don't need a car here, we have great restaurants, and the civic institutions are unparalleled. Yeah, it's weak on the snow front.

it's representative of the million people who live in DC/Arlington/Alexandria, with some minor variation. It's not supposed to represent some way out suburb. We had these same arguments in the NYC forum where folks in like way out NW NJ were pissed at Central Park's climate record/obs/whatever. Well ok, it's the climate site for NYC not your random suburb. Sorry.

yeah I was thinking 94. Maybe some day in 96?

exactly - we are still plenty north where you can have the right combo of cold air plus a juicy storm coming in - and we get blitzed. I'm sure it will be that way for many years to come, it just won't happen as often. It's just that snow is going to be less routine here - and it already wasn't that routine to begin with.

I mean we were already on the edge of the "reliable snow zone" - mean temps tick up a degree or two, and boom, suddenly we are south of it. I get it - it sucks. My kids won't get to experience the same storms that I did as a kid if we live here. But if you are living in the Mid Atlantic and expecting a snowy climate - it's just not. DCA's annual mean temp is 60F, BWI is close. We are quite lucky to have places like Canaan etc that aren't too far away where their annual snowfall will probably keep ticking up - these are some of the snowiest places east of the Rockies.

the complaining is ridiculous. Unless folks live in the far western parts of our region (Davis, Canaan, Deep Creek,etc), expecting reliable snowfall from winter to winter isn't a thing around here. The standard deviation of annual snowfall from most of our climate sites has to be off the charts.

dews in the 40s - snow eater. Ours doesn't quite look that bad but its hours are numbered lol

lmao you live in Newark Delaware - not sure what you're expecting.

Low of 29F at DCA, 29 here.

bigger thing is 2018 was 6 years ago.

Temps going up here, 34F now

I'm usually within 3 degrees or so of DCA at any given time - and I'm 350+ft higher but just off an urban corridor. Case in point - temp here is 32.7, temp at DCA is 32.

lol it matches fine with urban areas especially in the District. It's not supposed to have the same temperature as you.

you are always welcome here Jeb!

yeah DCA actually compares better with the Navy Yard / Capitol Hill n'hoods in DC than it does with some of the ones on the VA side that are close-by. When we lived downtown we were rarely more than a degree or two off from DCA.

looks like the I-95 express lanes for trans-pacific flights (obviously uni-directional)

low of 18F here, 21F at DCA

97-98 was OK in the Shenandoah Valley with some elevation. We got a lot of front end blitzes of snow that would change to sleet/rain, and then end as snow.

both games next week and any potential SB matchup are all really appealing. I'm hoping it's Detroit / B'more.

And I get why the Bills were trying to run out the clock (for the reasons you mentioned), but I was like - that shit could come back and bite you in the ass.

34 for the high both here and at DCA.