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Started to rain around 12:30 last night so I checked the radar. Huge red blob in southern Fairfax/PW counties. Northwestern tip of it touching I66 in western Fairfax. I only got light rain and one distant rumble of thunder. It looked like the blob might hit DCA but checking this morning, they just got a few hundredths too.
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Isn't there a rule at NWS to be very, very conservative when predicting rain during a drought?
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Yellow-with-dots-of-red area in Fairfax County came out of nowhere on radar; an hour ago it looked like light rain with a gap to the SW.
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Brown grass is pretty usual in September and October if all the tropical cyclones miss us, but I don't ever remember seeing it in May. It must have happened in May 1969, which had only four days with measurable rain, but I was a toddler at the time.
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We got through summer in less than a month, now welcome autumn!
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Moderate rain in Vienna! Hasn't rained that hard here since April 5.
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The rain bands had been moving SW to NE, but it looks like they've shifted to W to E. Some yellows on the path to hit Fairfax.
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Doesn't look like it will get to 68 today as forecast. IAD topping out at 59 so far.
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Feels like a wedge this morning.
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Sun came back out. Neither the NWS nor the WeatherBug radars seem to be all that accurate as to where the rain is actually hitting the ground.
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Raindrops on the sidewalk.
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Thunder to the south
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Smells like rain but no precip yet. Overcast plus the low dewpoint making it feel downright cool.
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Ominous clouds to the west of the Fairfax Courthouse. Radar unclear if the rain will hit or miss.
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Looks like it's going to miss Fairfax City.
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Radar shows rain, but doesn't look like any is reaching the ground at GMU.
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Just light sprinkles in Fairfax City. I can't see locations on mobile; I assume it's only the high mountains that are getting actual snow.
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It was sunny here in Vienna until a few minutes ago. High cloud overcast and white sky.
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This year has been a refreshing change from the chilly, wet Aprils we often get. The sunshine and low humidity is reminding me of 1985, the most pleasant April in my memory.
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Light fog lifted fully by 8:20.
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Clear sunrise, but sudden fog in Fairfax City.
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IAD barely touched 32, and not till *after* sunrise.
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Persistent NW wind keeping the temps from dropping. IAD went from 39 to 46 in the last hour!
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Starting to rain, real summertime humidity.
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Little patches of blue sky finally, in Fairfax City.
