Is there any concensus in Sterling or otherwise that the record heat and wet weather in MD is because of climate change, so we can expect more unusually harsh weather, or is this just a fluke?

FR REPLIES: I don't think anyone in Sterling would touch that. And climatologists would say they can't blame any particular weather extreme on climate change. Each has its own more immediate causes - blocking highs, El Nino, positive NAO, etc. Climate change is something you see with broad hindsight, in data reaching back decades, and compared with climate proxy data going back millennia (tree rings, sediments, coral, etc). That said, one of the predictions of climate change theory is that we will see more extreme weather events - drought, flood, snow, heat and, yes, in some places, cold.

Well....23 inches of rain in that time than if it was January to Feb and it was 200+ inches of snow. That would be about 19 feet!

Hi Frank,

Interesting info. I would say these have been the cloudiest, most overcast 30 days in Baltimore history as well....Although I guess that's a little harder to quantify.

As for the clear skies supposedly on the way - I'll believe it when I see it since we've heard that forecast before only to be faced with more clouds and rain!!

Thanks,
Davuid

I just read on this sight the dewpoint was a whopping 74.6 degrees and here it's the end of September!