Anonymous wrote:I've been in this area 50 years and it used to be beautiful weather in the beginning of September. Now it's hot til Halloween.

I'm a similar age and Halloween has had extremely variable weather my entire life. It's always been a guessing game of whether or not the costumes will need warm clothing underneath, or will be sweating, or will be just right.

I've been on DCUM since my oldest was a baby, so 17 years, and people complain about summer weather every.single.year.

This is nothing new.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been in this area 50 years and it used to be beautiful weather in the beginning of September. Now it's hot til Halloween.

Same. I was born in 1975 and most of my ES photos from the first day of school (day after Labor Day), I was wearing jeans or long pants. The hot weather just seems to last longer and I want my beautiful fall back!

Or…your parents made you wear your long pants because they were your good “school clothes” that was bought especially for the school year.

Anonymous wrote:I've been in this area 50 years and it used to be beautiful weather in the beginning of September. Now it's hot til Halloween.

Same. I was born in 1975 and most of my ES photos from the first day of school (day after Labor Day), I was wearing jeans or long pants. The hot weather just seems to last longer and I want my beautiful fall back!

The "break" this week is Tuesday only. Tonight through Wednesday morning.

Make the best of it!

I think the summers are more humid and hot than years ago. But the winter is mild here. That's the trade off.

Anonymous wrote:I've been in this area 50 years and it used to be beautiful weather in the beginning of September. Now it's hot til Halloween.

I remember being at school in the 1990s and early September could be hot, especially for those of us at schools with no central air in the classrooms.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like 2024 was worse, and it was the worst since 2012.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2024/07/15/new-day-new-heat-record-this-summer-in-dc/

2012 was bad. We had evenings that didn't cool off. It stayed over 80F the whole night.

2011 was worse than 2012. Remember the “sweat ceiling” (a play on the Debt Ceiling debacle at the time that led to sequestration).

The difference this year is the consistency. Just relentless humidity.

We will finally get a break this week, though.

2012 had 8 100+ degree days. That's not heat index, but air temps. The evenings never cooled off.

With the break this week, we will be certain to have a thread about the unusual coolness in the middle of summer.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve lived in the DC area all my life and this weather isn’t new.

I’ve lived here for 14 years and I free. I don’t know why people have this amnesia about summer here. It’s ALWAYS hot and sticky with an afternoon storm . The one summer I actively recall being vastly different was 2013 because it rained CONSTANTLY. I had a 3 year old and we could never go to the pool. Besides that and the summer with the derecho, none of these summers are outside the norm.

It’s great that you’re free. I’m sure your ex was a real pain. But what’s that got to do with the weather?

I actually tried to correct it to I agree in a different post one second later and it got deleted because probably it appeared like I was sock puppeting, c’est la vie or whatever 😎

Anonymous wrote:Ten years ago DC was practically southern California. We had people flocking to the area for the nice weather.

Even since that first Trump presidency the weather has been ruined. Did Trump steal the weather for his golf courses?

Ha!
It wouldn’t surprise me if he did!

He’s such a schmuck!!

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve lived in the DC area all my life and this weather isn’t new.

I’ve lived here for 14 years and I free. I don’t know why people have this amnesia about summer here. It’s ALWAYS hot and sticky with an afternoon storm . The one summer I actively recall being vastly different was 2013 because it rained CONSTANTLY. I had a 3 year old and we could never go to the pool. Besides that and the summer with the derecho, none of these summers are outside the norm.

It’s great that you’re free. I’m sure your ex was a real pain. But what’s that got to do with the weather?

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like 2024 was worse, and it was the worst since 2012.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2024/07/15/new-day-new-heat-record-this-summer-in-dc/

2012 was bad. We had evenings that didn't cool off. It stayed over 80F the whole night.

2011 was worse than 2012. Remember the “sweat ceiling” (a play on the Debt Ceiling debacle at the time that led to sequestration).

The difference this year is the consistency. Just relentless humidity.

We will finally get a break this week, though.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s always hot in dc in July. But I’ve lived here my whole life and don’t ever remember this much rain and flooding. It storms most nights for sure but usually a 20-minute intense storm that blows through. Not day after day of hours long rain.

+1 the rain/storms are out of control. And the humidity. Apart from the heat wave in June, temps so far have been typical. It’s normal to have highs around 90 this time of year and that’s what we’ve had recently.

I remember a very rainy summer a few years ago, I think 2018? We would have days of relatively cool rain and raining all day. The mosquitoes were out of control that summer. And then it stayed weirdly warm and humid until we had an abrupt weather pattern change in mid-October.

Yes! I remember this as well as I had just moved to DC and all it did in August 2018 seemingly was RAIN RAIN RAIN.

I've been in this area 50 years and it used to be beautiful weather in the beginning of September. Now it's hot til Halloween.

The summers do feel more tropical and I'd agree the average humidity has picked up a notch. It fits the pattern of the weather patterns moving northwards. But at the same time, nothing we're experiencing is unusual or unique for the DMV. I grew up in Maryland and my father was never not complaining about humidity every year. We're just getting more of the humid days and less of the dry warm days.

Each summer is always a bit different. One summer a few years ago was very dry and pleasantly hot the whole summer with minimal rain or humidity. Then the next summer was humid most of the time. Either way, it's never been California weather around here.

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I mind the mosquitoes most of all. I can't wait for genetic mosquito control everywhere, not just in California and Florida hotspots, so that we don't get cancer from spraying.

The heat, the humidity, are all hard to bear. But the worst are the mosquitoes.

Mosquitos fill a vital role in our ecology.

No they don't.