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I’ll be contrarian and say that I love this weather, especially during the workweek. Sets a perfect fall mood. And  easy to get work done without distraction. 
 

64.6 currently with a misty drizzle. Low was 62.6. 

45.0 for the low.

47.3 for the low. 

53.2 for the low this morning in Great Falls.

51.6 for the low.  Beautiful morning!

3 minutes ago, midatlanticweather said:

 

Amazing the difference that a few miles makes -- just light rain here, but constant thunder off to the west.

53 for the low in Great Falls.  

75 at noon.

1 hour ago, WxUSAF said:

LWX confirms record low of 49 at IAD and 50 at CHO

Low of 58 at DCA ties for 13th coldest all-time (1872-present) and coldest since 1956.

Outside of 1956 and 2024, all of the sub-60 lows at DCA/Washington for 8/22 occured prior to 1933.

We bottomed out at 51.4

Looks like IAD's low (so far) is 49.

49 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

Probably many.

There have been 7-day stretches entirely in the month of August in DC where the average maximum over that stretch was less than 70F.

As recently as 1992, there was a 7-day stretch with an average maximum lower than yesterday's 76F.

DC appears to have recorded an August 20 high of 76 or lower 16 times in the 125 years between 1900 and 2024.  Rainfall was recorded on 10 of those 16 days.  So, to answer @mattie g's question, it appears to be an uncommon occurrence on a day with full sun.

This morning's DCA low of 59 ties for the 10th coolest August 21 low since 1900.  The last time that a cooler low was recorded was in 1969 (58).

42 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

In other weather news, HR 6093, the Weather Reauthorization Act, has passed the U.S. House Science Committee and appears poised for a pass in the House and Senate. https://science.house.gov/bills?ID=BC6A9B3A-4B0B-4F80-B877-37C02C34ECC3

I, for one, hope that Congress reauthorizes Weather.  This board would be fairly boring without it.

Low of 53.2 in Great Falls. 
 

74/57 yesterday. 

Glancing blow from the storms here, but we got a good 10-minute downpour.  Knocked the temp down to 80.  High/low today was 99/72.

Just under 0.50" so far in Great Falls.  We made out well this morning.

10 hours ago, kgottwald said:

The first 80 low at IAD ever!

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

Very brief pop-up tropical shower here in Great Falls.  It was nice for the 3 minutes that it lasted.  

46 minutes ago, mattie g said:

It was just to fill a lane. She was as big as a 5-year-old, but still...that's just nuts.

We've done the same with filling lanes with younger ones. We have lots of kids (6-8s) who could probably just fill a lane and make it across the pool this year, but we try not to throw kids in there if we feel it might be intimidating for them or somehow lower their enthusiasm for swimming if they don't do well. We have a 7-year-old boy who swam all four strokes as a 5, but he's a bit of an anomaly (to say the least).

The coaches entered my 6-year-old in Fly last week, but she refused to swim it . I was a little disappointed, but it's not the end of the world. At this point, she just wants to swim if her best friend is also swimming, so B Meets are where it's at right now. Of course, now she's putting up a fuss about swimming Back this weekend, even though she's perfectly capable of not coming in last!

Our fastest 8&U girl at free and back is a 6 year-old.  (She also has a good swim birthday).  She is not consistently legal at breast/fly and is much slower at those events when she is legal . . . but she is seconds faster than anyone else in free/back.

Our 5 year-old who swam last week became a team celebrity . . . all of the kids were cheering for her (and she did not come in last!).  

2 hours ago, mattie g said:

We had a few rumbles of thunder that delayed our warmups, but we shortened them to 10 minutes apiece and got the meet started at 6:35 pm. Went pretty well and finished before 8:30 pm. And it was a really well run meet and everyone had a great time!

Kids had some great swims - even the many who had to fill in for all the other kids missing - and we did end up winning the meet. Our 11-12 Boys went 56 low (and destroyed our team record) in Free, and went 1:03 in Medley, so we're just waiting for our first call to All Star Relay in a few years. Always neat when a little team like ours gets the chance to swim against the big teams!

Also...one of the other teams had a f'ing 3-year-old swimming in their 8&U relays!!!

A 3 year-old?  That's crazy!  Was he/she reasonably fast?  Or just filled a lane?  (If the latter, I guess it's better than not having a team to enter.)

Our team swam a 5 year-old in 8&U free at last week's A-meet.  That was due to a lot of people being on vacation.  We definitely don't have any 3 year-olds who could swim a full length.

Very happy that we made it through our relay carnival with no storms and no rain. Even happier that all of our kids had a blast. 

4 hours ago, vastateofmind said:

Worst NVSL memory EVER, from about 15 years ago...getting the kids to the host pool in Springfield area around 5:30 p.m. for relay carnival, when (of course!) it started thundering. There were severe storms in the area at the time, but it appeared on radar as if they were going to miss our area...but did not. We got 2-3 rounds of really bad storms, while stuck in insufferably hot/humid conditions sitting in our minivan with a handful of bored kids drawing on fogged-up windows. We were continually rain-delayed until well after 9 p.m., when everyone was cleared to hit the pool deck and start RC. Don't think we got home until 11:30 that night...UGH.

Ugh indeed.  I REALLY hope we aren't in a long waiting game tonight.  Fortunately our relays tonight are at a pool that's only ~10 minutes from our house (and we have a parking pass for the pool's lot).  If there is an extended weather delay, we may just run home to wait it out and rush back when the meet resumes.

We need the rain, but hoping for a bust on this evening's storms so that NVSL relay carnival is unaffected.  The kids love this event and it would be unfortunate to have to sit out a long storm delay or to have to reschedule for tomorrow (which would cause huge availability issues for our team . . . and presumably others too).

89 for the high here as well. 

7 hours ago, EastCoast NPZ said:

He's probably referring to agriculture.  You forget that a lack of rain has implications beyond the immediate consumption in the cities. Most farms lack the ability to pull water from municipal reservoirs for irrigation, and most out here don't irrigate at all; it shouldn't be necessary on the east coast.  And don't forget the effects of last year's wild fires.  This drought appears to be hitting earlier than even last year's, possibly causing more harm to the growing season than last.

I read “profound effects on life” to mean something much broader than just agriculture. There may or may not be a profound effect on agriculture. There will not be any profound effect on life unless the dry spell continues for significantly longer (which it won’t.)
 

Low of 60 here this morning.