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Smoke seems to be getting a little lighter at ground level in Albemarle, but it looks as thick as it has all day overhead. Maybe a product of the sun angle at noon? 219 reading to our East at Zion Crossroads (Louisa). The Hollymead sensor on PurpleAir north of town has been reading low the past few days, seems like it's somewhat protected, maybe indoors.

Round Hill or Mordor?

A large part of that is the phone is adjusting it's exposure/white balance settings as it takes each successive photo that then gets stitched into a single image. Your brain does the same but it's subconscious and not frozen in time for easy comparison.

Picked up 0.65" with that line that came across Albemarle between 1-2pm. It really blew up just to our SE. 45k ft echo tops on that cell near Powhatan.

1hr later: up to 1.99" with the heavy stuff now tapering off

comma head forming over Albemarle? up to 1.62" on the UVA Weatherbug station

Where's the guy with the big green hornworms? Need to see those things hatched to truly get some closure on the disaster winter we had

CHO hit 88 twice this afternoon. At or above 85 from basically 3-5pm. Almost felt like summer today

Mind posting the previous?

Nice little band coming over the mountain now that should produce, it dropped snow in Staunton 20 mins ago

yeah but I moved from DCA to CHO 3 years ago. My allegiances have changed!!

This is the stuff dreams are made of

Cherry trees are blooming in Cville We hit 70 around 1pm today and stayed there through ~4:30. Beautiful afternoon.

This has been brought up and discussed before. I believe the consensus is that the increasing humidity has been keeping our temps down in some of our recent torchy summer stretches.

1.07" at CHO and certainly felt like it, yesterday was one of the wall-to-wall rainiest days in recent memory.

68/54 as of 7:40pm on a stiff SSW wind at CHO The air feels thick

Lmao, that's some post of the year material

70/43 at CHO as of 1:10pm 3:30pm update: boss-man told everyone to go home and get outside

Wxdood has 89 posts since joining in 2014, half of those are probably in the past hour, and before yesterday hadn't posted since March of 2019. I smell an alternate, troll account. Stop taking the bait y'all

Worked from home today, had the local westher on. Couldn't help but laugh at this map. What a year

I'm banging on the bongo when I get home, that's for sure

Definitely cold down there right now. Could be some upwelling caused by the low moving north, there's 30-40 mph winds off the NC/VA coast right now. You can see how much more red than blue there is across the North Atlantic though. Hard to look at that and think it won't have any effect.

I don't know if it's wise to expect another period like that. For all we know that was a transient set of conditions that could only occur with the warming that had occurred up to that point. We've gained ~0.3C globally since then. Current running mean is ~0.95C above the 1950-81 average, it was ~0.65C in 2010. So something like 25-30% of the warming that has occured, has occured since that period and as we've seen recently, our part of the Atlantic seems to be doubling down on that trend. I would expect different results now if we had the same patterns set up as those years. It's been too long. I think we're in a different era now and analogs are going to become increasingly hard to use for forecasting without adjustments being made based on our new background state.

What temp departures do we have for Jan at the major airports by this point?