kgottwald

IAD back down to 97. Guess we won't get triple digits today. And I don't see a single cloud out the window of Caboose Mosaic.

IAD as always the laggard, still 97

88/73 at 8:30 a.m. Stone the crows.

Even at the mouth of the Amazon, nights never get this hot!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belém#Geography note that temp averages year-round are just "normal DC July".

Local Climatological Data reports from back then didn't even include dewpoints, nor are they available on XMACIS. Getting that data is really difficult.

Just got back from the Town of Vienna fireworks. That miserable humidity did its best to sap the pleasure from the occasion! There were also tiny bugs landing on me, way too small to be mosquitoes.

Even way the hell up at the northern tip of Maine, Caribou is at 88/72! And probably nobody has air conditioning there, since the average July high is in the mid-70s.

In the seventies and eighties, a typical HHH summer day would have a milky-white sky with the sun not even visible! The only sign that a thunderstorm was approaching was the white gradually darkening. As a kid, I didn't know what was meant by references in books to "seeing the storm clouds gathering".

IAD stalled at 95 for the past few hours

Forecast.weather.gov looks to be down. Maybe their data center got flooded.

Very small rain blob right over central-western Fairfax County since at least sunrise. I keep waiting for this rain cell to move east and for us to get some sunshine to reduce the dewpoint a little, but it keeps on not happening. Pretty frustrating,

Even the 88 figure in Downtown Baltimore seems excessive, but it's remotely plausible if the observation site is in the middle of the urban heat island, surrounded for miles on all sides by asphalt and brick buildings, with absolutely no green space.

The AFD mentioned that the all-time warmest low for Annapolis was 92, on 7/7/94. That is what was in the official records, but the observation has to be some sort of glitch. Patuxent River had a low of 74 on that date. That 92 should never have made it into the AFD; it's so clearly bogus it doesn't pass the smell test!

Also, to hell with Bad Gateway Errors!

To hell with 73 degree dewpoints. To hell with warm fronts. To hell with walking half an hour home carrying a 12-pack of Cigar City Jai Alai and a frozen pizza. To hell with sweat pouring down my face and making my eyes burn. Let me sleep until autumn.