kgottwald

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

The past couple of days, the dewpoints have been falling to the mid-60s at night and rising to 70 during the day, the reverse of the normal pattern. Getting tired of seeing 70 DPs every single day.

NWS screwed the pooch yesterday morning by putting zero pops for Fairfax County in the 4 a.m. forecast. I'm sure I'm not the only one who trusted them and left my umbrella home!

It wasn't supposed to rain today, so I left my umbrella at home. Of course it started raining the minute the bus reached the Vienna station. Nice work, NWS. Bravo.

When the dewpoint reaches 75 that's the point I wish I could just teleport home, and not have to sweat through all my clothes.

Raining again at GMU, but the radar isn't even showing it!

Rain, and miserable stinking humidity. Ugh.

Sudden downpour in Fairfax City

Overcast, sprinkles, 70 dewpoint. Disgusting. Fall can't come soon enough. Don't know why, but muggy air always feels dirty to me, no matter what the air quality - and the lower the dewpoint, the cleaner and fresher it feels, even with wildfire smoke!! (I think it might date back to when I was a kid at summer day camp. I had to join in with strenuous athletic activities in the worst of the Northern Virginia summer, and my mother would always dress me too warm, in dark colors, so of course I got prickly heat and was pouring with sweat; to this day I despise the smell of wet grass for the same reason. And my house didn't have air conditioning back then either!)

Never thought I'd see the day when San Diego would be muggier than DC! They've been getting 70-degree dewpoints lately.

Vienna got completely skipped by the storms - just one gust of chilly wind and one peal of thunder. Looks like upper NW DC caught the worst of it though.

Finally, we're experiencing what summer should be!! Took long enough.

Automatic sprinklers going, spraying the sidewalk in front of an office building in Merrifield. Complete waste of water, and renders the sidewalk impassible. Does anyone really give a good goddamn if the grass next to the sidewalk is green or brown? I want a nationwide ban on watering anything that isn't A. cash crops, B. subsistence crops, or C. animal fodder. If you don't like seeing brown grass, then tear it out and plant cactus and creosote. FFS.

We couldn't even manage one day with decent dewpoints. IAD up to 70 already. Sheesh.

Smoke has vanished in Vienna.