9 hours ago, nw baltimore wx said:

I’m jelly of everyone that got their lawns aerated and seeded ahead of this week. It’s been perfect weather.

If I get a dry afternoon tomorrow, I’ll get mine done.

I told myself last fall that I'd aerate and seed this year.

Nope...didn't do it.

HWRF has Helene getting to 918 mb

19 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

Yeah, 1.51" over the past 10 days.  Very welcome.  I'll take more.

Only issue I have is that it's pretty dreary...

Rained pretty damn hard for an hour or two yesterday afternoon in my corner of Burke, with the nearby CoCoRaHs reporting 0.87" for the day. That brings us to about 1.75" for the week. Pretty impressive, actually.

1 hour ago, WxUSAF said:

All 3 globals have a respectable fall cold front mid-late next week 

Yeah...but wake them up when it arrives!

Radar looks to be fattening up a little bit to the southeast over the lower Potomac/middle Chesapeake and aiming northwest.

^ I'll take the NAM

I refuse to care at all about long-range/seasonal model predictions. Accuracy has always been an issue in the best of times, but if the last few years has taught me anything, it's that we should be even more wary of these very long-range progs than we have been in the past.

There's a poop reaction emoji now?!

4 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

All 3 globals have a heavy synoptic rain event on Friday with a low on the coast getting pulled into a front coming in from the Midwest. Then another early fall airmass behind it.

I’m playing in a golf tournament on Friday, so let’s leave the rain for a little later in the day. Thanks.

Closest CoCoRaHs recorded 1.95", which I think tracks given that we got nicked by that super heavy downpour in the morning and then had decent rains for quite a while in the evening (never got the really heavy stuff).

Misting out there now.

32 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

Just a wild radar today.  Love the two areas colliding just south of Manassas.

About to get smashed by that…I think.

Some really cool strikes setting off car alarms in my neighborhood.

29 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

Just a wild radar today.  Love the two areas colliding just south of Manassas.

I think I might get crushed by that. Might…

9 minutes ago, yoda said:

Pop up storm right over me

That extended to MBY in Burke.

4 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

Home is on the eastern edge.  0.30” so far.  
 

Im at the office and I can hear Yoda’s cell, though.

Yeah...good storm. Plenty of T&L and heavy rain right now.

22 minutes ago, MN Transplant said:

Yes, let’s have these storms just sit on 66 for the next 5 or so hours.

Are you in that one or are you just on the eastern edge?

I need that complex to either sag south about 8 miles or build over me!

Got nicked by that little popup line about 30 minutes ago or so. Pleasant little surprise that should make things really f'ing muggy soon enough!

Ended with about 0.6" yesterday here in my little corner of Burke. Quick hitter, but it dumped.

Hoping we have decent weather for the last weekend of the neighborhood pool, then next week it's looking like an acceptable week for the pool to be closed (seems like it's always the other way around!).

12 hours ago, IronTy said:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/ar-AA1pcupU

 

 

Get your ice skates sharpened up, we'll be skating in the bay this winter.  You heard it here first.  

"No one can figure out why the Atlantic Ocean is cooling at record speed"

Ummm...that's easy. The volcanoes are no longer active.

27 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

Great read @WxWatcher007. Will be a busy next couple months.

Not according to the DoOm MeRcHaNtS!!

4 minutes ago, 87storms said:

Unpopular opinion…could be 5 degrees warmer. Much nicer in the sun…little on the cool side in the shade with the breeze. Wfh today, so just sampled this on my balcony lol. It is biking weather tho…might have to partake later.

Only reason I'd want it warmer is to take advantage of the last couple weeks of the neighborhood pool being open. Friday evening and Saturday should be great.

2 hours ago, hstorm said:

DC appears to have recorded an August 20 high of 76 or lower 16 times in the 125 years between 1900 and 2024.  Rainfall was recorded on 10 of those 16 days.  So, to answer @mattie g's question, it appears to be an uncommon occurrence on a day with full sun.

This morning's DCA low of 59 ties for the 10th coolest August 21 low since 1900.  The last time that a cooler low was recorded was in 1969 (58).

Totally missed this point. Thanks for the research into it!

31 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

Yeah, it was an anomalously “cool” day even if not unprecedented or record breaking. 

Exactly. 76 on August 20 isn't wild in and of itself, but the fact that it only got to 76 without precip and/or thick cloud cover is what makes it impressive.

3 hours ago, TheClimateChanger said:

Probably many.

There have been 7-day stretches entirely in the month of August in DC where the average maximum over that stretch was less than 70F.

As recently as 1992, there was a 7-day stretch with an average maximum lower than yesterday's 76F.

The stretch in 1992 saw measurable precip on every day from August 12-18 except for the 14th, which had a Trace, so I'm guessing there were plenty of clouds during that entire 7-day period.

My point is that a having day with partly cloudy skies only get to 76 at DCA is incredibly impressive. Add in a similar day today and you have to admire that!

2 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

I think he's ranking by unique values. He corrected it to 10th place in a follow-up. If so, that's true. There's only 9 lower unique values on record - 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74 and 75. Although many of these have been reached dozens of times each.

I wonder how many of those were reached on days without full clouds and precip. It's also more impressive that this was done on August 20 and not later in the month.