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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.

Miserable humidity is back. 81/72 at IAD. The past few days with pleasant dewpoints I wasn't bitten by a single mosquito, now with the nastiness back I'm just getting eaten up by them. Does humidity really make a difference in skeeter activity?

Wonder if we can eke out a year without a single Atlantic hurricane! That'd be pretty exciting.

I bet tomorrow will be yet another almost 100% cloudy, ridiculously muggy day.

2019 was at least dry until mid-October, which helped lower the humidity. September 2018 had multiple days of monsoon rains, amounting to almost 10 inches, and only 14 days with no precip.

I really hope they're wrong on this. September-October 2018 was just horrible. If I wanted Florida weather I'd move there.

I'm all for a repeat of the August autumn of 1986. Sick and tired of the endless humidity.