Posts Tagged ‘Weather’
Rainbow
Anyone else catch that lovely rainbow this afternoon around sunset? I was showing a friend around Air and Space at the time, and we spotted this behind the Skylab mockup just as we were on our way to check out the simulators. Just seeing that arc makes the humidity and thunderstorms today worth it. Be [...]
More »Another Warmish Day
Am I ever glad to have this kind of day. I just stepped outside and was surprised by how warm it is. The forecast looks good for another week of pretty decently warm weather, at least. I reckon around the end of the month it might get so cool that I will need to pull [...]
More »Ready For Rain?
Capital Weather forecast: a stormy end to the week. It’s been a lovely week for being out in the sunny, balmy outdoors, but that lovely weather ends today, with rain and wind starting from later this morning or afternoon, and going clear through till Saturday and possibly even Sunday. Temperatures today will reach highs in [...]
More »Hanna Watch
Good morning, DC! Tropical Storm Hanna is in town, and we’re looking to get some pretty heavy wind and rain as it passes through. We haven’t had weather action like this since Isabel, and while Hanna isn’t quite as notable, us weather geeks are still on the beat. Through the day we’ll be watching radar, [...]
More »So – There’s a Big-Ass Storm a-Coming
Tropical Storm Hanna & Hurricane Ike Map 09.04.2008 5:00 PM EDT Not sure if you heard or not. I went to the supermarket on my lunch hour to stock up on some non-perishable items ad there was plenty of water and no elbowing or pushing, so I know people are not quite in emergency mode [...]
More »Metro Sandbags for Hanna
WaPo’s Get There blog reports on WMATA’s preparations for the storm tomorrow, including sandbags around vent shafts over stations at high risk for flooding. Here are a few such sandbags outside Foggy Bottom Station: Tomorrow is looking like a good day to stay in if you can. Got your bread and milk handy? Be the [...]
More »Here Comes Hanna
Thankfully for New Orleans and the Gulf Coast area, Hurricane Gustav was not another Katrina, and the area seems to have come out of the wind and rain mostly intact. Now we turn our sights to the next storm in line, Tropical Storm Hanna, whose projected track hugs the east coast pretty closely, bringing the [...]
More »Thunderstorm Timelapse
A line of thunderstorms swept over the Metro area around 1PM this afternoon; we got home from church just as the darkening sky let loose its first drops of rain. While it stormed, I ran wget on the ABC 7/News Channel 8 webcam and got this time lapse video. Watch for the two bolts of [...]
More »Fireworks and Storms
As often is the case for the Fourth of July in Washington, the weather has been largely unstable: heat and humidity mixing with occasional showers. We’re now just about a half-hour from the scheduled start of fireworks on the Mall at 9:10 AM, and another wave of showers with some lightning has just finished sweeping [...]
More »Crepuscular
Crepuscular rays bursting forth from a passing storm cloud, seen from Pennsylvania Ave while I walked around downtown to discover that watch repair shops all close before 6PM. Be the first to like. Like Unlike
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