Ian

It's nice to have the omg I owe too much in taxes sads in July rather than April. 

28 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

I still haven’t been able to find any up here. 

It's the first I've seen them anywhere since this started... tho Target had their off brand recently as well. I stocked up back in Feb so still have some but was starting to worry about my stock. 

I was unreasonably happy to find name brand Clorox wipes at target this afternoon. 

updated dc high comparo (cc @stormtracker ) 

43 minutes ago, WinterWxLuvr said:

I remember that 1980 heat wave like it was yesterday. I was a rising high school senior who made his pocket change like most did by mowing grass and doing other outdoor work. And then spent as much time as possible at the public pool. That heat wave was a beast.

 

I also have vivid memories of the 1988 heat wave also. By then I was teaching and coaching and two a day football practice was quite an ordeal that August.

Another kind of day today where you'd expect relatively uniform temps and we got 'em.

DCA 90
BWI 90
IAD 89

I think persistence at a level rarely seen is worth more than many but agree it's kinda eh so far as far as long-term memorability (which honestly might be a sign of where we are and where we are going as much as anything else). I'd be at peace if we fail... although I am curious to see how high we can build it back up if we don't. If for some reason it goes four weeks or whatever that's pretty impressive no matter what. Arguably this is a low-hanging fruit record for DC anyway. BWI did 25 in 1995. I bet a lot of whiners on social media complained about the temp gauges then.  

Tomorrow looks better than today did going in for 90+... Thur probably looks kinda like today/yesterday (edit on temp projections at least, probably cloudier maybe some rain around). If we really want to DC it we fail Thur with an 89. 

We got it. (stand by for official word)

58 minutes ago, pazzo83 said:

so far we are running one degree warmer than yesterday at DCA

still same thru noon.. 86 today. given the similarities of airmass and tons of sun hard to see why it would miss unless we get screwed by it falling into the river. of course thurs looking like a wildcard lately now too. that was once like 102 on the euro and close on the gfs. 

2 hours ago, leesburg 04 said:

It was nice to see Ian post the other day. I was worried after he had both legs amputated but I was happy they were able to save his feet.

Is this a short joke? I missed you too. 

2 hours ago, mappy said:

Lists. I have many of them that i utilize during high traffic events. On those days I only follow the lists I've made vs my usual feed. While I don't follow thousands (less than 2K total) it does make it easier when you just want to see one topic and not 10 topics at once. 

Twitter's biggest problem might be that it never stops. There's something to be said about a slower conversation. Plus I can't stay out of politics these days given the travesty of everything... so there's the angle of me potentially hurting myself by tweeting. I'm treating it like any other addiction for the moment.

9 minutes ago, astarck said:

We need the entire month of 90/70 or more.

not impossible.. think we do have a rather decent shot at the 90+ record of 25 for July/any month. 70+ is a bit harder given the record is 30. 

58 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

2011 sucked.  I'm surprised we don't have a 2010 streak in there.  Bad luck I guess.  

yes on both. 2010 fell just short of that group with 12.. also had an 11... and a fair amount of one day breaks in between streaks. 

How about another 2 weeks? People will prob still say it's lame. 

5 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

There are less than 10 people on the entire planet that care about this.  Most are here, and the others are probably on Twitter.  We are a special bunch.

I'd imagine the denier set will start caring a lot more if we make it past tomorrow. lol. 

we got it

3 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

That DP though!

Now down to 56... and another 90 ob. Eight in a row. 

12 minutes ago, pazzo83 said:

i would imagine we've hit it now.

if not suit up to riot again

dew point keeps falling off and plenty of clear skies nw we can do this 

5 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

Is this when I get to complain about the location of DCA being in a damn river?

You aren't kidding.

a surge to 90. ooo boy. 

3 minutes ago, pazzo83 said:

it's the damn (light) wind

yeah light and variable not the best. other than yesterday most highs have been pretty late lately so we still have some time. 

5 min obs are painful don't look. 

Altho this streak is kinda bootleg so maybe it should end. 

30 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

Noon ob at DCA is 85.  

Tougher to start so "low" but doable. 

Seems a bit better consensus DC can hit 90 tomorrow as we close. 

24 minutes ago, wawarriors4 said:

Good stuff....but it feels like using 90 degrees as the point to determine a heat wave seems odd around DC when our average high temp around now is 89-90. Looking at the graph, maybe at least 93 or 95 for three consecutive days is a better indicator of a true heat wave?

I would imagine there is at least some regional research on this but have not done any myself really. I do know of some other indexes like the wet bulb global temp which apparently have their uses. https://www.weather.gov/tsa/wbgt

I do agree it is imperfect but I am not sure it's a hill to die on. As long as we're comparing against like values... people will prob always gravitate toward 90 or 95 vs 92 for instance. 95 is prob too high here at least at the moment. 

Here are the averages of 90-degree streaks of 14 days or more. Not imagined this one isn't all that intense so far... did start earlier than many.