kgottwald

I was hoping that the rain would miss us, as some of the models were showing, and that we could get a week or two of sunny mid-seventies with 45-degree dews to get us on a good start with fall.

I thought we were going to get dewpoints in the 50s by late afternoon - now it's onlyy for two or three hours in the overnight then it's right back up to tropical levels?? And day after day of miserable rain and increasing damp chill next week?? I HATE this frigging climate!!

I swear, next year we're getting 80-degree lows in September, and probably DCA's average low will exceed 70.

Unexpected lines of showers passing through Metro DC.

Maybe it's because somebody's prayer was answered. Heh.

And it just keeps getting muggier and muggier. IAD's dewpoint, 66 for most of the morning, is now a disgusting 72, with only occasional furtive glimpses of sunshine.

And, memorably, in January 1998. Weirdest, most unpleasant January day ever. It felt kind of like this morning does: gloomy, stifling and overcast.

MORE damned heat and 75 dews next week?! Are you kidding me?! FFS.

I'm so done with this unending humidity and daily storm chances (which means I have to carry my umbrella every damn day even though Ffx misses the storms 95% of the time) that I'm seriously considering renting an AirBnb in Boise for all of next summer.

Yet another exceptionally unpleasant, sunless, stiflingly muggy morning. I can't WAIT for real fall.

The reality split the difference: sprinkles, not enough to need the umbrella, but just enough to keep me from reading while walking.

As long as we don't get another September 1881 - which, if it happened nowadays, would probably produce a DCA monthly average of 93 / 76.

That exact same paragraph is carried over to this morning's AFD. "Latest guidance"? NWS and CWG disagree on storm chances today: NWS has a 40% pop for central Fairfax, CWG downplays it: "Can't rule out an isolated evening storm, especially north and northwest of the Beltway." Decided to live dangerously and leave the umbrella at home; let's see how that works out.

... and back to the 70 DPs. Every time we get a couple of dry days and I start to think we've turned the corner, the mugginess comes back.

Lightning and thunder last night 9:30 - 10 but zero rain.