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The DC/beltway rain dome is holding...nothing yet.

When I first got into my car, it was 104. This was the 2nd or 3rd stoplight.

Ended up getting 3.71" last night. Went to bed at about 3:30. Weird part about the this am outside is that water either ran off or was absorbed into the lawn. I have a drain right by my house whenever we get this kind of rain. Was not even running this am. Been too dry?

another cloud develops and now up to 1.65", roughly 1 hr later.

after avoiding me all afternoon/night, a nice cell dumps about .80 in 30-45mins.

No water yet, but looks like 7pm outside; not 3pm.

Substantial rain coming down in S. Arlington. Just perfectly vertical rain. No wind or anything. It's like tropical, monsoon like rain. May have picked up more than .5 inches in the last 30 minutes.

got .69" early tonight like 7 or 8pm. May get more but going to sleep.

.46 in rain since last night. One sunny day tomorrow and then back to the muck, right?

1.42 for this event last night.

The federal government is not some all-knowing monolith that is stifling all the that is great about this country. More than half of federal government spending is sending out social security checks and paying Medicare bills to health care companies/drug companies. Another quarter is defense spending. You know, to take care of all the troops we have all over the world. That last quarter is the "traditional" federal government. Stuff like national parks, immigration, NWS!, FBI, agriculture assistance, road building, etc. Did they stay home? Probably half, IDK. BTW, I would be perfectly fine if we would not build an aircraft carrier in a budget year so we could have an agency to track and intercept infectious diseases when they crop up. Kinda like what S. Korea did.

1.24" in s. arlington. Goldilocks rain: not too much; not too little.