Anonymous wrote:Late July are the absolute worst! Late August actually starts feeling ok to me, but I assume I am in the monitory since it starts to look like a ghost town around here in August
Op you need to join a pool, or get in the sprinkler, start looking for indoor places to hang out during the day

This. July is always the hottest month in this hemisphere. Aug begins a teeny, tiny cooling trend (like 5º maybe) and all across America we witness the beautiful slant of "August light". It gives you hope that the rotting heat is going to end.

Anonymous wrote:Just moved to the area and am finding this heat horrible. Is this just a weird heat wave that will pass or is this how it is all summer? When does it cool down?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. HAH. You have no idea. I've lived here most of my life (40+ years) and this is the mildest, most pleasantly low humidity spring and summer that I have experienced in over 25 years.

No it's not-dc is desolate in August!

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Anonymous wrote:I actually love dc in August. I've gotten used to the heat by that point, and it feels like everyone is on vacation and I have the city to myself. Parking is easy, the restaurants and museums are not teeming with people. And frequent late afternoon thunderstorms cool things off a bit in the evenings.

Huh??? Dc is mobbed in august

No, it's not.

I feel like DC is a ghost town in August. Congress is out, everybody's on vacation, there's no traffic, college kids have started going back to school. . .in short, it's wonderful.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually love dc in August. I've gotten used to the heat by that point, and it feels like everyone is on vacation and I have the city to myself. Parking is easy, the restaurants and museums are not teeming with people. And frequent late afternoon thunderstorms cool things off a bit in the evenings.

Huh??? Dc is mobbed in august

No, it's not.

Anonymous wrote:No, it will get worse. When I was pregnant in the summer of 2010, I think that we had 70 something days of 90+ degree heat.
DC was a swamp that was filled in with dirt. It's miserable here in the summer.

Yes, the past two summers have been particularly miserable. Last July was AWFUL. My son went to one week of camp last July and I think it was triple digits pretty much every day he went. Thank goodness he got to go in the pool twice a day.

Anonymous wrote:I actually love dc in August. I've gotten used to the heat by that point, and it feels like everyone is on vacation and I have the city to myself. Parking is easy, the restaurants and museums are not teeming with people. And frequent late afternoon thunderstorms cool things off a bit in the evenings.

Huh??? Dc is mobbed in august

I actually love dc in August. I've gotten used to the heat by that point, and it feels like everyone is on vacation and I have the city to myself. Parking is easy, the restaurants and museums are not teeming with people. And frequent late afternoon thunderstorms cool things off a bit in the evenings.

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Anonymous wrote:Ts not the heat, it's the humidity. An 85-88 DC day can feel 101 F with the swamp-like air.

I grew up here. I am now 41 and still haven't gotten used to it.

I use 3.5 of my 5.5 weeks of vacation every summer and go to San Diego and Maine in August.

5.5 weeks? Dang. I'm still at 3 weeks per year combined sick/vacation leave. Maybe I should have taken that fed job 20 years ago.....

Yep. I am 17 years in- I carry the 240 hrs and just use the 5 off the top. You don't want to know how much sick leave I have...

I agree end of July can be worse, but DC in August is dead man's town.

heh, i will be 8 mos pregnant in august. it is times like these that i wish we had moved to the west coast.

Anonymous wrote:Ts not the heat, it's the humidity. An 85-88 DC day can feel 101 F with the swamp-like air.

I grew up here. I am now 41 and still haven't gotten used to it.

I use 3.5 of my 5.5 weeks of vacation every summer and go to San Diego and Maine in August.

5.5 weeks? Dang. I'm still at 3 weeks per year combined sick/vacation leave. Maybe I should have taken that fed job 20 years ago.....

OP, what igloo did you just crawl out from under?

This is not hot.

Ok so the people who keep re-telling that dc was built on a swamp-what do you suggest is the issue many miles away in the rest of md and nova?
Huh? The entire tri-state area was built in a swamp?!

You know, everyone always says it's August, but empirically, they're wrong. IT's July -the last two weeks of July, in particular, that are historically meteorologically the worst.

you eventually get a break in August.

DC is brutal. Global climate change is brutal. It's getting worse, people. It is.

Ts not the heat, it's the humidity. An 85-88 DC day can feel 101 F with the swamp-like air.

I grew up here. I am now 41 and still haven't gotten used to it.

I use 3.5 of my 5.5 weeks of vacation every summer and go to San Diego and Maine in August.