GramaxRefugee

^^The only dog in VA with his own private well.

I think you should add HVAC for the little fella. It only seems fair.

1.04" dzl at obs.

4 hours ago, dailylurker said:

To my surprise (not surprised) it has rained all night here. Steady rain, sometimes heavy. I'd estimate another half inch at least. When does the dry spell start lol

Spot on. Now up to about 0.65 in my gauge. Still lightly raining

49 low here. Sun and blue sky.

0.36" overnight and still dzl. So over 0.5 for both days (so far)

0.19" by obs. Lt rn

0.59" in the t-storm.

11 hours ago, dailylurker said:

I live 5 minutes from there. I hope you enjoyed the lowlands! I hate the traffic on my local back roads from that event lol.

49 here in the lowlands this morning. 

Well it's 5 mins when not RennFest season. About once or twice we hit the perfect storm of Saturday traffic tie ups...RennFest+Navy home game+Boat show weekend. Makes a quick run to Home Depot a major expedition.

Only down to 64 now. Bit of a warm up, sorta.

August total 2.03".

Highest temp 90;  lowest 50

1 hour ago, BlizzardNole said:

I looked and was surprised to see June was just +0.6 and July +1.4 (DCA).  Check out this stretch in 2012 end of June beginning of July.  And weren't a lot of people out of power for days after that derecho in late June?

 

More from DCA.....

June...18th hottest

July....10th hottest:

DCA only. I would guess the others would be a bit hotter.

Low of 55 this morning here in the swamps of Anne Arundel

I ran a search of the thread to make sure I didn’t already say all this, but I noticed the whole earthquake day showed the difference between Baltimore and Washington, (and probably Richmond). I was working in Catonsville back then and commuted past BWI to get home, so listened to the Baltimore traffic report on maybe 98Rock radio, and recall Dave Sandler saying that there wasn’t much traffic today, because after the quake many workers went home, and everything was sort of winding down at 5:30 or so. Meanwhile, I wanted to listen to Redskins radio on 980am so changed stations, and Steve Czaban (a jokester) was wailing about how we’ve had a terrible earthquake and the Beltway is stopped, and the Metro is not running, and phones are not calling, and all of D.C. is a mess. I really, really, thought he was making his sarcastic jokes. Then as time went on, looking at the traffic map, and talking to people who were there,  I realized he was not joking. 

As an old guy who has worked in both Washington and Baltimore I can tell you there are certain differences to both urban areas, but the earthquake day was the biggest. In some minor defense of D.C., I think the quake was worse there, but it was quite significant in Baltimore too.

14 hours ago, MN Transplant said:

One week left and the driest August on record (at DCA) is absolutely in play

There's a holiday weekend in our future; usually good for a few tenths at least. But I think the deficit is around 0.4". That's a lot even for a weekend.

DP up to 71.

About time to get the garden thread active, I guess.    Been getting some figs. Varmints have bothered less than previous years.

11 hours ago, MillvilleWx said:

I can't believe they are allowing me to view this porn at work....

If this verifies, we'll have a pretty cool August. Most of the NWS stations are listing at least -2 avg temp deviation for the month so far. (e.g. KNAK -2.4; DCA -2.8)

65/64 DZL. Few hundredths overnight. 

Would be the proverbial broken record, but 10 degrees cooler this morning than yesterday. 

High today was 70. from 65 low.

4 hours ago, WxUSAF said:

Midnight high for MBY. 

Ditto. Plus 0.10" rain. About 1.8" for the month so far.

0.09" from the Sunday evening T-storm. Looked stronger on radar.

21 minutes ago, IronTy said:

....  I wonder if there was hail this spring that damaged the leaves when they were still young?  It's on all the trees all over so it doesn't seem specific to any one type of tree.  Has made the trees look ratty all summer....  

Interesting theory. (But it's beyond my knowledge of silvaculture....hopefully someone knows)

Car thermometer hit 100 driving home from Silver Spring this afternoon. (Beltway at 50). Down to 89 by home. My station hit 89 also for the hottest August day so far. Did not expect it.

Eta: later climbed to 89.7 on the Davis, so I guess I have my first 90 of the month

1.52" this afternoon's storm.

13 minutes ago, mitchnick said:

P.s. The Climate Changer is from Pittsburgh. He removed his location so he can post all over the board incognito as to location. 

Maybe the Pitt thing was a false cover in the first place. He's actually in Tokyo perhaps.

0.01" for the day. Driving around a little this evening was rainier, but just shows how spotty it was.

73/72....back to normal summer humidity.

Ends a 10 day stretch of low DP at my station.