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Dewpoint back into the damn seventies, after I thought the front had gone through hours ago!!
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Interesting that the early summer of 1931 in Tallahassee got its record warmth from the high temperatures exclusively; the lows were comparatively bearable. June 10 even had a high of 95 and a low of 58, something you'd expect to see in *Denver.* Pity you can't look up dewpoints. Edit: Tallahassee's population in 1930 was barely 10,000, so there was essentially no urban heat island.
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DCA has not dropped below 70 degrees since July 2; most of the overnight lows have exceeded 75, more like Miami than DC. We in the greater urban heat island deserve the couple of cool nights we'll get.
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From a north-facing window in Tysons Corner I can see heavy showers in Langley or Potomac moving to the northwest. No more than discrete raindrops here though so far, with occasional glimpses of sunshine.
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I am so over these 70+ dewpoints. Only, what, three months more of them??
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Patches of blue sky in Tysons Corner. I think I'm going to regret bringing that big umbrella.
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That winter still holds the record for least snow in Boston! Just 9.0 inches, of which 4.4 inches fell in November. 2011-12 and 2023-2024 are not far behind, though, with 9.3 and 9.8 inches respectively. DC's total was 20.3 inches, of which the snowiest month was March with 11.1.
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First September with no lows under 70? First October with an average low above 60 at DCA?
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Starting to see clouds in Tysons Corner.
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I'm pretty sure that was 2018, when Ellicott City got major flood damage three (four?) separate times. That was the year of the atmospheric rivers. Like late June 2006 except a whole bunch of times.
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The first 80 low at IAD ever!
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real Hong Kong weather.
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Then again, those were dust-bowl years.
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Dewpoint at IAD still 64, DCA 66. The dry ground must be helping to suppress it. Hopefully if downtown DC doesn't get rain it won't be too muggy.
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I absolutely despise overcast, muggy mornings like this. With no sunshine, the outside temps will stay in the upper seventies-low eighties for hours and hours, and my air conditioner can't really get to work and knock down the indoor humidity to something reasonable unless I crank it way colder than I'd like. (I'm getting on in years, so a living-room temp of 77 with a dewpoint of 40 - 50 is about my ideal).
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Dewpoint just 61 at IAD. Will the storms dissipate as they approach?
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The first time I ever saw blue skies and puffy clouds on a hot, humid day was in August 1988, during the record string of 90-degree days. Bill Kamal on channel 9 commented on how unusual it was, that the air came straight from the tropics.
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reminds me of summer in Seattle
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Unseasonably cold and windy in Tysons Corner. And clouding over again. Two days in a row with sunny afternoons predicted but not materializing.
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I suppose climate change is screwing up the forecast models in some way. Still raining on Gallows Road in Vienna. Third separate shower. I Keep waiting for it to end but I won't get home till sunset at this rate.
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Zero chance of rain in the forecast today but I just got DRENCHED for the second time in a week. And there was hail too. I hate surprises. And I REALLY, REALLY hate getting rained on because I believed the forecast and didn't take my umbrella on a SUNNY day. I despise this climate. Five consecutive days with rain - two of which were supposed to be dry. That is just too much.
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At IAD and at my house, the temperature did not budge all night. 64 at 3 p.m. and 64 at 6 a.m., despite the NWS forecast calling for a low of 53. This isn't the first time I've seen such a low-temp bust. The forecast models seem to be completely unable to handle overnight warm, humid airmasses in winter.
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And in ten years, we'll start getting Januarys with 70-degree dewpoints, and thunderstorms with tornado threats.
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more like "get ready for monsoon downpours, 60 degree dewpoints and SW winds so strong it's difficult to walk".
