More showers, clouds, gray, blah, blah, blah
So here we are, still stuck between the same cutoff low spinning over Illinois, blah blah, blah... Bermuda high hanging off the coast, blah blah,... preventing these systems from moving away, still combining to send warm, moist air up the East Coast from the Gulf and the Atlantic, and blah, 
blah, blah.
Have you heard this before, too? Fog, clouds, drizzle, blah, blah, blah ... A bit more rain, rainiest September, yada, yada... Cold front due, but not yet ... yada, yada. Onshore winds, minor coastal flooding again... for a while longer...
There is relief on the way, forecasters insist ... we'll believe it when skies clear. Maybe Thursday, they claim. Sure.
Best hope we can pass along: Cold front clears the region late Thursday, skies clear by Friday, air dries out and temperatures drop. They're predicting a high Saturday of only 62 degrees - almost 20 degrees colder than today. Then sunny into next week.
Maybe then I can cut the grass. Yay...
(SUN PHOTO: Kim Hairston, 2011)
Comments
I don't mind the clouds and rain so much, but I've had more than enough of this humidity! Bring on Autumn! And at the risk of jinxing it do you think we are done with 90 degree days for the year?
FR: Probably. But we'll give it another couple of weeks, just in case. Record highs in the 90s peter out by the 23rd of August. We'll compromise and close the contest on the 15th.
Posted by: Steve J. | September 27, 2011 11:25 AM
Hi Frank,
Do you know if any stats/records are kept with regards to the amount of sunshine (or lack thereof) vs. cloud cover for a given period of time?
The weather this entire month has been absolutely dreadful -downright depressing. I swear it seems we haven't seen the sun in weeks! Curious to get your opinion and see if there's any data to back up my claim.
Thanks,
David
FR REPLIES: The NWS reports daily sky cover at BWI. Days are rated on a 11-point scale: 0-3 is "Clear;" 4-7 is "Partly cloudy;" and 8-10 is "Cloudy." September (through 9/26) has seen only one "clear" day. That was Sept. 13 (a "2"). It was primary election day in Baltimore. Thirteen days were rated "partly cloudy," and 12 were "cloudy." But they haven't seen even a "partly cloudy" day at BWI since Sept. 16.
Posted by: David | September 27, 2011 4:31 PM