kgottwald
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Wonder if it's possible to get through all of September with absolutely zero rain. Only calendar month that's happened with is October 1963, counting traces as zero. But the DCA absolute drought record is 34 days in the fall of 2007.
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The cool air was supposed to arrive during daylight hours, but OF COURSE it's been delayed until late night as always happens during the hot season.
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Cloudy in Tysons Corner right now - will this stick around and moderate the heat?
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Clouds covering most of the sky already. Forecasters should know that it practically takes divine intervention to get 100% sunshine in August, especially the day after widespread showers.
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My house is near the center of the dry bullseye in Fairfax County.
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The front was originally supposed to blast through yesterday afternoon and plunge the dewpoints into the fifties,wasn't it?? This morning's AFD yanks that away: oops, scratch that, the front is now just a pathetic, wheezy little thing which will barely dry us out until tomorrow. Christ, I'm sick and damn tired of this humidity and of the models raising false hope yet again.
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Dewpoint at IAD is 75, up to "uncomfortable even standing still" levels. Is it going to hit 79 like it did in Savannah? Sure hope not.
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Is the immediate DC metro area going to get *any* sun today?? Hour after hour of overcast and tropical humidity is sapping my patience.
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Two separate showers with bright sunshine between 5 and 6 pm. Outer fringes of the heavy showers that popped up just south of 66.
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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).
