kgottwald

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.

Nice low dewpoint though.

I couldn't smell any smoke when I walked home at 4:45 pm. Got a little whiff when I took the trash out 45 minutes ago though.

The first time I remember smoke hitting the DC area was March 31, 1999. The fire was in the Shenandoah Valley. The date stuck in my mind because Activision's *Civilization: Call to Power* released on that date. I made a special trip to Gamestop to pick it up, and wondered about the weird smell in the air and the funny-colored sky.

I'm really tired of overcast 70-degree-dewpoint mornings. Isn't the front ever going to come through?

A normal summer day feels really nice after five days of blowtorch and a week of stifling overcast.

Looked like we were finally going to get an actual sunny day, but here come the clouds again. Sigh.

Pouring near the Vienna Metro station. Waiting in a tunnel for the rain to slack off so I can finish my walk home without having to put all my clothes in the dryer immediately.

Still overcast in Fairfax City. DPs are back up into the ridiculous range.

I certainly don't care for a solid week in midsummer with maybe one hour of sun per day if you're lucky. And the humidity needs to start decreasing!

Dewpoint down a couple of ticks, nice breeze, it actually feels fairly pleasant this morning.

A day when you need the air conditioning even though it's 73. Humidity just gradually saps the will to live.

My neighborhood looks to be safe from storms for another day.