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I really hate muggy, overcast weekend mornings, especially when the forecast calls for zero sun.

Tiny cell just popped up over Vienna.

AFDs used to be a lot more interesting, varied and idiosyncratic back in the 1990s. A model "forecasting mins for planet Venus". "I just shake my head at the LFM." 

Nowadays they have to stick with their template: synopsis, short term, long term, and all the IDGAF stuff (aviation, marine, tides) at the bottom. All kind of samey,

About ten minutes of total sunshine yesterday. I thought today was supposed to be brighter, but the latest forecast has backpedaled on that. Grr. I hate gloomy Sundays.

Didn't a cold front supposedly pass with the pre-dawn thunderstorms? The DC area still has SW winds and DPs in the upper sixties.

A few scraps of blue sky in Tysons Corner.

So much for tonight's Nats game.

On 5/23/2022 at 11:33 AM, WxWatcher007 said:

You can’t let me have one cat two cane with a tractor tire eye that rolls over some sparsely populated, but chaseable land?

Or even better, a few Pacific tropical storms that drench Southern California and end the drought.

I wonder what's the record for a cutoff low remaining in one place. If it's possible for one to park itself over the Mid-Atlantic for a solid month I bet it's going to happen one of these springs.

Got hit with surprise hail in Vienna. Knocked a substantial branch off a dead tree in my backyard.

Tysons Corner had a few very light sprinkles an hour ago.

These unforecast midday showers and cloud cover should make the afternoon storms pretty tame.

Partly sunny till around 7, now it's the same gloomy overcast we had Saturday.

On 5/14/2022 at 2:36 PM, IronTy said:

How does it rain so much here in every season but winter?  Since 2018 it's been so wet every warm season.  If we could translate it to some snow that would be cool but no, it's just rainy every spring/summer.  Really sick of it.  Makes years like 2012 seem like some sort of mythical unicorn.  

I remember fondly the dry spell of late summer 1995 (zero rain from August 7 through September 8).  The lack of soil moisture cut the humidity to a considerable degree, and decimated the mosquito population.

Just had a pretty heavy downpour in Tysons Corner.

Imagine having to live in Juneau, Alaska, where this sort of weather is typical for May and can last all summer (July 2008 had an *average* high of 58, and at least a trace of rain fell every day but one. Monthly high was a torrid 73.)

We can just never seem to get a sunny and dry May, can we??

Freeze warning won't verify. Clouds, wind, wind, wind and more wind.

I hope this doesn't hang around all day. The NWS forecast implied there would be maybe an hour or two of fog that would burn off, so I left my windows open at home.

11 hours ago, Weather Will said:

Model war for Saturday highs temps, back door cold front or Not????  WB 18Z GFS, 12Z EURO and 12Z Can

 

 

NY City - that's one heck of a heat island!!

20 hours ago, mattie g said:

This is going to turn out to be the worst weather April in recent memory. I can feel it.

The worst April I remember was 1983. At least a trace of rain on 18 of the first 25 days, and there was, I think, *one* sunny day. The high for the first 21 days of the month was only 64, then it got all the way up to 68. After another spell in the low fifties, the pattern finally broke on the 26th, and temps soared to 88 on the 28th.

Well, we usually get extended stretches of nice weather in the fall, except when tropical storms affect the area. October is almost always our sunniest month.

We can just never seem to get a real spell of settled, sunny weather in April or May!! Frustrating as all hell.

Another mild day ruined by screaming winds. Goody.

It was supposed to be near 60 today, but since 10 a.m. the temperature actually dropped into the forties!