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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.

Not a drop of rain so far in Vienna. Can we call this a bust yet?

I wouldn't call that excellent.

I had foolishly allowed myself to believe that we were actually done with 70-degree dewpoints for the year, and there was even reason to hope that the Atlantic would be devoid of tropical systems except far-off fish storms. Suddenly it all comes crashing down!

Streets were damp in Vienna when I woke up, but neither IAD nor DCA reported any rain.

>Probably looking high temps upper 70s to low 80s with reasonable dewpoints if this verifies. It had better. To hell with this humidity. To hell with every damn summer being longer and muggier than the last. I want things to go back to normal, and by normal I mean the mild summers of the early sixties.

Sudden pop-up shower over Fairfax City. Pouring at GMU right now. But patches of blue sky are still visible!

Never mind the back-and-forth, I'm just thoroughly tired of the 70+ dewpoints, which according to the AFD won't be decreased by the upcoming "cold" fronts. Can't wait for the cooling trend.

I hope Chicago doesn't get another surprise low-60s-and-heavy-drizzle day like Friday. Damn near froze my tuchus off, because I had packed only shorts and T-shirts, anticipating upper 70s highs at least.

I'm in Chicago until 7/21, and I'm sure not loving this humidity. Any chance of a real cold front in the foreseeable future that will knock the DPs down to 50 or below??

At 3 p.m. it looked like a nasty line of storms was heading straight for Tysons Corner. But all we got was clouds - not even much wind! Sun back out in Vienna.