TIL this has been the hottest summer on record in the Washington DC Metro area
Today I heard that this appears to be the hottest summer on record in the DC area (though the summer is still incomplete).
Here's another link: http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=25&sid=2004614
While this neither confirms nor refutes the global warming hypothesis, it has been downright tropical in the DC area!!!
Posted Aug 6, 2010, 11:31 PM UTC
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Living in DC right now. Because of our crazy weather, we've been having some nutso thunderstorms, too. The DC area (DC and a few surrounding counties) had a power outage that affected 300,000 people 2 weeks ago because of these storms. We're not talking one of those "OMG, my power's been out all afternoon!" outages. 3 days in, 100,000 were still without power. I was actually pretty shocked that it didn't make the national news.
Sidenote: This winter was also the worst winter we've ever had. We got a decade's worth of snow in this year alone.
I've been living in DC since 2003, and weather-wise, this year has been the craziest shit I've ever seen.
What is pathetic is how a routine thunderstorm cripples the infrastructure in the area which includes some of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the country. Says a lot about where our priorities are(n't).
But hey --- bring on another snowmageddon!
Well, in fairness, this was not a routine thunderstorm. I've only seen storms like that under tornado watches. It was pretty epic. Also, the wealthy neighborhoods were the least hit. Washington DC proper only had about 10% of the outages. It was Montgomery County (the MD county directly bordering DC) that had 75% of its 300k residents out.
Snowmageddon (and Snowmageddon II: Snowpocalypse) was some of the craziest crap I've ever seen. I was road tripping through GA when the Blizzard of '93 hit and it was extremely reminiscent of that.