kgottwald

DCA's heat island has kept increasing. Their last subfreezing temp in October was in 1992; before that you have to go back to the famously cold October 1976, the prequel to the brutal winter of 1977.

In 1993, IAD had a freeze on October 1. I was working a temp job in a building on Avion Parkway right next to the airport, and all the grass was white with frost.

What's it going to take to get a subfreezing low at DCA in October? 15 at IAD??

Really hoped we would get sunshine and be rid of this miserable drizzle by the time I left the house. Storm doesn't want to leave.

It's kind of weird watching the precip bands moving in the wrong direction - from NE to SW. Seems unnatural.

Just pretend you're in LA or Savannah.

Humidity creeping up. Still a billion mosquitoes in my yard.

I thought the sprinkles were supposed to be confined to the early morning. Still spitting out there.

Not a drop of rain so far in Vienna. Can we call this a bust yet?

I wouldn't call that excellent.

I had foolishly allowed myself to believe that we were actually done with 70-degree dewpoints for the year, and there was even reason to hope that the Atlantic would be devoid of tropical systems except far-off fish storms. Suddenly it all comes crashing down!

Streets were damp in Vienna when I woke up, but neither IAD nor DCA reported any rain.

>Probably looking high temps upper 70s to low 80s with reasonable dewpoints if this verifies. It had better. To hell with this humidity. To hell with every damn summer being longer and muggier than the last. I want things to go back to normal, and by normal I mean the mild summers of the early sixties.

Sudden pop-up shower over Fairfax City. Pouring at GMU right now. But patches of blue sky are still visible!

Never mind the back-and-forth, I'm just thoroughly tired of the 70+ dewpoints, which according to the AFD won't be decreased by the upcoming "cold" fronts. Can't wait for the cooling trend.