kgottwald

I bet DC has never had a day with its high at midnight and its low at 1:30 p.m.!

Let's do it again on April 15!

Untraveled roadways getting slushy.

Sidewalks starting to whiten.

Snowing hard at GMU. Mulch is white, grass is caving. Tomorrow is the anniversary of a serious ice storm in 1984, the latest in the year that I can remember. It followed the thundersnow on March 8, when IAD got four inches in one hour!

Moderate snow mixed with rain. Don't see that too often; mixes are almost always light intensity.

Snow mixing in, in Fairfax City.

Seems like the only time it's 100% sunny at this time of year is after an arctic front comes through, so you have to put up with bitter winds to get the sun. So cold and raw, during my walk to the supermarket my hands were aching and burning after 20 minutes (I thought I could manage without gloves, because it makes it a lot easier to read on my phone). And it doesn't feel like the front is going to lift north any time soon. If I could afford it, I'd spend every February through June in Phoenix or Tucson. IMO April in Arizona is the perfect climate: upper 50s at sunrise so it's cool enough to walk to the grocery store without overheating. Dewpoints in the teens and twenties making the 90-degree afternoons pleasantly cool in the shade and pleasantly warm in the sun. I could leave my windows open 24-7. Not a drop of rain all month. Not a cloud in the sky all month!

Also, the last week of early sunrises: cloudy every morning. We really need to go back to year-round standard time already.

Reading today's AFD, I knew several days of 70+ temps was too good to be true. There's always a damned wedge.

Spring fever yesterday! Warmer than it's been since November.

High-level clouds mostly obscuring the sun. Waiting for the bright sunshine NWS promises.

Fun fact: DCA's monthly high so far is 57. If we don't hit 60 before Saturday, this would be the coldest February high since 2010 (which topped out at 50).

Absolutely pouring in Fairfax City. So dark it looks like 45 minutes before sunrise.

Waiting for the rain, so the snowcrete mountains will start eroding. Strange to realize it hasn't rained here since January 17!