jacindc

Big fan here too.

I took down the really Christmas-y stuff, but the lights are going to stay up at least into March. I did it last year and neighbors said it really helped with morale during the pre-vaccine times in January and February.

I don't know why people are always in a hurry to take down lights. Leave em up and you get such pretty tableaus when it snows!

Flurries on the south side of Capitol Hill.

Sun angle is brutal.

Any snowfall that doesn't have rain is a win.

Always Be Clinging to the NAM when it shows what I want

Sure, we'll be on the west side of the eye but hard to imagine that the hurricane-force winds will still be causing trouble by the time it gets to DC. (Crap, I see I stopped changing my wall calendar five months ago.)

Sweating the rain/snow line is part of the deal with this type of setup, alas. That's why I loved last Monday so much. Didn't have to be glued to a precip-type radar the entire time.

Remember, they always come north. Well, except when they don't, but they ALMOST always come north. Okay, so maybe not almost, but they OFTEN come north.....

Not exactly the time to be needing emergency room care, either.

Oh, I don't think the concept of news organizations knowing that coverage of big weather events gooses the ratings is anything new. I remember local stations being all over big weather events in the 1970s. As for the current storm, I'm starting to hope for the "atmospheric memory" or whatever we call it that seems to target a specific area repeatedly throughout the season. And so far this season it would be me.

Gonna need to shake off my serviceberries, but man, this is gorgeous. Sent from my Pixel 6 using Tapatalk

Capitol Hill, near the freeway.

Fish Market in SW DC:

If it was on South Capitol Street it's a pet daycare, so you didn't miss out. [emoji1787]

The sun is a shinin' here on the Hill.

Trying to figure out whether it's going to slide just to my east.

Monsoon rain on Capitol Hill, and it's gotten so dark out. A bit of a breeze appears off and on, but no big wind.

Report from my father from this morning (so, pre-whatever's about to start): It must have been quite some storm last night. I rode down into the park this a.m. and I was blocked by water on the bike path from Rock Creek both ways within a mile of the beltway. Rock Creek was flowing just below the bottom of the bike path bridge coming up the hill out of the park, so I biked back up the road I had come down into the park on. I haven't seen that much flooding in the almost 45 years I have been biking in the park.

DC canceling afterschool events as well. https://twitter.com/dcpublicschools/status/1433097551717310474

I'm supposed to be in an MRI machine late late tomorrow afternoon. Thinking maybe that's a pretty safe place to be in a twister.