kgottwald

You would think that with such an extended dry period we wouldn't have to worry about flooding, wouldn't you? Every single rain event in the past few years seems to produce flooding in some part of the DC area. Every single one!! The summerlike mid-60s dewpoints during the heaviest rain didn't help.

It looks like it's going to be mostly cloudy for the rest of the day.

How can IAD be clear when here in Vienna it's 90% cloudy with a few little breaks?

Really dense fog since 5 a.m. in Tysons Corner.

Sun came out for about an hour - but now solid overcast again. The AFD mentions a CU deck developing due to low-level moisture, and I wonder if we've already seen all the sun we're going to see today.

More drizzle. I thought that was supposed to be done with. What if the low just sits there and pumps DZ into the metro areas till the front passes on Saturday?

Pretty big temperature forecast bust yesterday - the low off the coast didn't pull away like it was supposed to, just hung around like a dinner guest who wouldn't take a hint.

I did not expect drizzle today. I have my doubts about the predicted mid-70s highs; in my experience, once we get NE flow and drizzle, it does not warm up. (And once drizzle starts, it almost always hangs around for a long while.

Tysons Corner has gotten foggy all of a sudden. 9:45 is an odd time for fog to appear.

And I remember the September 23, 1989 cold blast, arriving suddenly after a muggy 80-degree morning, dropping the temperature thirty degrees in a few hours!

The The Wednesday-Thursday one, which a couple of days ago was supposed to cross the area quickly and bring welcome low humidity for Thursday, but now is supposed to hang up over the area for a whole day at least.

Every single rain event gets a FFW these days! And every cold front stalls/moves painfully slowly across the area. Didn't used to be that way.

Is it the wet soil from all the damned rain recently that's keeping the air so muggy?

Dewpoints aren't dropping nearly as fast as they were supposed to. Big SURPRISE.

I was only half a block from home when the skies opened up but still got plenty wet. This cell really came out of left field. Hourly forecast graphs show no sub-60 dewpoints for the foreseeable future. FFS!!

Because it's the climate of the DC area that I hate: the relentless rains and total lack of a dependable dry season, the stifling, enervating humidity that hangs on for months on end.

Leaving work, there was a little patch of blue sky. Started raining within a few minutes. I had hoped, on my walk to the Dunn Loring Harris Teeter, to miss the heavy rain, but of course that shit had to park itself right over me. Christ, I hate this ****ing climate.

Radar looks like the yellow blob is only a few blocks wide

Heavy rain and wind started a few minutes ago in Tysons Corner

The way the climate has been going, the first credible snow threat for the immediate metro area won't arrive till the first week of January; early December is probably going to be in the low sixties.

Tysons Corner still solidly socked in. Looks like a wedge day.

Getting really tired of having to carry my umbrella every damn day. Hoping for a region-wide drought

That Canadian air better not be a fata morgana. I am so over this damned humidity and the rain every damn day.

Walking to work this morning, it felt like there was a waterlogged, moldy blanket wrapped around me from head to toe. Seriously unpleasant. Also, on some of the grassy areas between office building parking lots and the sidewalk, the in-ground sprinklers are still set to go off every morning at 5, no matter how much rain has fallen recently (also spraying the sidewalk rendering it temporarily unusable). What's the point of that except to deliberately waste water and provide breeding grounds for mosquitoes?

There are always alarmist stories but never any closure. I remember back in 1982 reading in the Fairfax Journal (remember that paper?) about a rabies epidemic with sick raccoons being found every day. There were occasional mentions of more rabid raccoons off and on for a while, then it vanished from the news. For all I know that epidemic is still going on!