kgottwald

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.

Yesterday the extended forecast was an unbroken string of 100's with zero rain. Long-range models always exaggerate about these things. Today the afternoon storm chances begin on Wednesday, and we go back to seasonal norms with daily storm risks. Only a mini-heatwave, I guess.

Really, really tired of day after day of drizzle/mist. I want a clear morning for once! The earliest sunrises of the year, and we're missing them all!! And some sub-50 dewpoints would be nice too. Already sick of the humidity.

I thought the cold front was supposed to sweep through right after the rain stopped, around 8 a.m. Sure is taking its sweet time getting here!

Dewpoints rapidly heading toward stifling level.

When trying to decide whether I need to bring my umbrella today, I check the NWS forecast for Fairfax County inside the beltway: "Scattered showers after 2 p.m." Then I check the AFD: "Some shower activity is likely to develop today, particularly west of U.S. 15 where scattered showers are in the forecast. . . . High-resolution models bring scattered showers toward the I-95 corridor just after sundown." I didn't know where the heck US 15 is (why can't they use placenames instead of highways??) so I check the map and see it's way out past Leesburg! So the forecast and the discussion are mutually contradictory. I'll chance leaving the umbrella at home, because when I haul that thing around all day and not a drop of rain falls, I feel like I've been made a fool of.

That was also the driest April in recorded history; surely the only April since white settlement where the majority of the precipitation was snow! Almost every day was dry, warm and sunny, the pleasantest month for outdoor activities in my lifetime.

Forecast high is 74. I have a feeling, though, that the warm air won't reach Fairfax.

Florida weather

Still feels chilly - and oddly damp considering the low dewpoint.

That must have been 1994. Damn near every storm that winter was ice, very little snow. January 19 only reached 8 at DCA after a low of -4!!