kgottwald

December 30, 2000. Predictions for DC were all over the map and ranged as high as a foot. In the end we got . . . Clear skies. It wasn't even cloudy!! I stopped even paying attention to the forecasts for the rest of that winter. December 25, 1985. We were supposed to get a white Christmas, the first in my memory. But the cold air stalled over the Appalachians and all we got was a little sleet that soon melted. January 14, 1983. Again, up to a foot was predicted, we got a brief flurry. 2/11 more than made up for it though.

So far this month, IAD and DCA have had 0.83 and 0.84 inches of rain - while Tucson got 1.15 and Phoenix 0.79!

Not a drop of rain in DC or Fairfax County. Models blow it again.

And I was fooled by NWS' forecast and took my umbrella today.

Up to 72 at Dulles. Christmas in Savannah weather.

I find it deeply weird when the temperature climbs into the 60s four hours after sunset in November and remains at that level all night.

More clouds than I expected.

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.