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My house is near the center of the dry bullseye in Fairfax County.

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.

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.

Is the immediate DC metro area going to get *any* sun today?? Hour after hour of overcast and tropical humidity is sapping my patience.

Two separate showers with bright sunshine between 5 and 6 pm. Outer fringes of the heavy showers that popped up just south of 66.

Dewpoint back into the damn seventies, after I thought the front had gone through hours ago!!

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.

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.

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.

I am so over these 70+ dewpoints. Only, what, three months more of them??

Patches of blue sky in Tysons Corner. I think I'm going to regret bringing that big umbrella.

On 7/17/2024 at 4:57 PM, Roger Smith said:

As to winter 1936-37, you'll probably find in detail, very cold at times late NOV, milder last part of DEC and all JAN, still quite mild FEB, colder in march -- betting most of 20" snow occurred at bookends of a mild winter.

 

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.

14 hours ago, Stormchaserchuck1 said:

Looks like they are holding onto a +EPO again. To clarify, +EPO pattern (cold anomaly over Alaska) is different from the global warming trend. It's the top index-pattern for warmth across the US. 

The +EPO correlation to -PDO has been strong over the last few years. The -PDO has its highest correlation in the Fall, so if this forecast hold, we can very well expect a warmer to much warmer than average Sept-Nov. 

First September with no lows under 70? First October with an average low above 60 at DCA?

Starting to see clouds in Tysons Corner.

2 minutes ago, hstorm said:

Looks like IAD got down to 79 this evening in the rain. 

D'oh!!

3 hours ago, BlizzardNole said:

Because it's bad for many right now outside of maybe NE MD.  Wasn't there a ridiculously wet year a few years ago where places got 60-80 inches compared to the average 40?  That probably skews it.  Anyway I'm seeing leaf drop from mature trees and have fewer hummingbirds and butterflies than I've ever seen at this point in summer

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.

The first 80 low at IAD ever!

22 minutes ago, PrinceFrederickWx said:

We spend about eight months of the year with 60 and mist, and the other four months at 90 degrees with dewpoints of 5,000. Get me out of this subtropical shithole lol

real Hong Kong weather.

Then again, those were dust-bowl years.

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.

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).

Dewpoint just 61 at IAD. Will the storms dissipate as they approach?

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.

reminds me of summer in Seattle

Unseasonably cold and windy in Tysons Corner. And clouding over again. Two days in a row with sunny afternoons predicted but not materializing.