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One, maybe 1 1/2, nice days and then back to the damn humidity. Why can't it just leave until next July???
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Thought it was supposed to stay cloudy all day. If I'd known the afternoon was going to be sunny I'd have brought my hat, and a book to read on my walk home. Reading on my phone doesn't work on sunny days because the screen just gets washed out, unless I set the text size to something ridiculous like six words per page. It seems like, if it isn't actually raining, drizzling or about to rain, it's damn hard to get an overcast afternoon in the DC area. IIRC these were a lot more common in the 70s and 80s.
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Blasted dewpoints are starting to creep up already. And you can't count on fall starting until mid-October; remember 2018?
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Just one tiny shower on the radar in Northern VA, but it seems to keep moving back and forth over Vienna. Light rain intensifying to brief downpour, then sun, then rain again, then a few more minutes of sunshine and just now more sprinkles.
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The damned humidity is starting to come back just in time for the weekend. DP up to 64 at IAD.
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And dewpoint at IAD is up to 65 already, not too far from the disgusting range. Didn't take too bloody long, didn't it? Hopes will always be crushed in this damned climate.
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Light rain in Vienna. Wasn't in this morning's forecast!
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Dewpoint still in the muggy mid-sixties. Shouldn't the real front have passed through by now?
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Just started raining in Merrifield
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Remember a couple of days ago, when a cold front was supposed to give the DC area sub-60 dewpoints this Saturday??
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Nobody reached 100 yesterday despite full sunshine. With the clouds this morning, and it still being in the 70s three hours after sunrise, I'm kind of skeptical of the three-digit forecast today.
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I really hate muggy, overcast weekend mornings, especially when the forecast calls for zero sun.
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Tiny cell just popped up over Vienna.
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2022 Mid-Atlantic Severe Wx Thread (General Discussion Etc)
kgottwald replied to Kmlwx's topic in Mid Atlantic
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.
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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.
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2022 Mid-Atlantic Severe Wx Thread (General Discussion Etc)
kgottwald replied to Kmlwx's topic in Mid Atlantic
A few scraps of blue sky in Tysons Corner. -
2022 Mid-Atlantic Severe Wx Thread (General Discussion Etc)
kgottwald replied to Kmlwx's topic in Mid Atlantic
So much for tonight's Nats game. -
2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season Tracking Thread
kgottwald replied to WxWatcher007's topic in Mid Atlantic
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.
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Got hit with surprise hail in Vienna. Knocked a substantial branch off a dead tree in my backyard.
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Tysons Corner had a few very light sprinkles an hour ago.
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These unforecast midday showers and cloud cover should make the afternoon storms pretty tame.
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Partly sunny till around 7, now it's the same gloomy overcast we had Saturday.
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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.
