GATECH

What a crappy Sunday! And the Commanders aren’t even playing…glad to not to be traveling, best of luck to those that must.

With all the holiday travel I expect the jet exhaust will keeps things toasty at DCA

Good call, forgot that you have to get tickets for that! We seem to be alternating years between Deep Creek and Canaan!

Just booked my winter insurance trip to Canaan Valley, last weekend in January…

Just need to get to Nov 27th....then I can move on to winning the snowfall contest.

BWI: 29.5” DCA: 23.4” IAD: 35.5” RIC: 17.3” Tiebreaker SBY: 14.1”

Some sort of wet substance fell from the sky today. Plus my car has these things that wipe the wetness off the windshield automatically. We are truly living in the future!

BWI: Nov 3 IAD: Nov 3 DCA: Dec 1 RIC: Nov 3 BWI departure +2.1

.57 in the bucket so far.

Light flurries…er I mean sprinkles have started. Barometer 30.162 and falling, breezes out of the ne 7-11mph. Temp 66.6, yikes.

Add a 151 floater…

After gloomy afternoon the sky just lit up on fire!

Also sunset alert!

I am thinking you replace tropical rum with some mid latitude vodka, maybe continental grain alcohol…but keep the passion fruit because it still has some tropical characteristics.

Nice, the night is young!

Nice! I love Southern Tier! Mrs. GATECH has gone pumpkin spicearific…she ran to Trader Joe’s and got everything pumpkin spice…it’s a phase that shall pass in a week or so…I even found her a pumpkin spice bourbon old fashioned which I shall conjour up for her tomorrow.

Well by the time it gets here, we will be drinking extra-Tropical Cyclones….working on the recipe now!

So what are people drinking tonight. I am experimenting with some new fall bourbon cocktails. I need a signature cocktail for thanksgiving and figured this would be a good weekend to practice. Anyone have any favorites?

Isabel was an unwinding former high end cat 4 or maybe a 5, lots more kinetic energy built up than Ophelia will have. Also, its forward speed started to really book at landfall, which I think led to a short period (8hrs) of strong winds. Rain wasn’t an issue in the metro really, but there was terrible surge in the bay and up the Potomac. Annapolis and Alexandria were hit hard. The area of Belle haven and Huntington south of old town were were both severely flooded by surge. All the bridges on the mount vernon trail were damaged or destroyed (in fact they are replacing them this year), so the seem to last 20 years. I Iived in the fort hunt area then and now, we were without power for 5 days during Isabelle. I don’t think Ophelia will be anywhere as impactful.

99.7 for a high, tied for highest temp in last 3 years. Oh and the AC broke….we are doomed. Michael and Son better CAN fix it!

99.5 for the high today. So close.

Must have been after the afternoon Emirates A380 took off for Abu Dhabi.

98.1 yesterday for a high, 97.3 today. Altocumulus rolling in so that should be the high for today

Sunset was pretty good, pic doesn’t do it justice, the whole sky turned pink.

96…so much for not reaching the mid 90s today