Weather Channel: D.C. had worst summer in U.S.

[Faygo Kid]

I am SO outta here when the opportunity arises, hopefully with retirement in about another five years:

"Of all this country's great cities, Washington, D.C. suffered through the worst weather conditions this summer according to The Weather Channel (TWC). Our Nation's Capital beat out Little Rock, AR (2), Des Moines, IA (3), Brownsville, TX (4), and Los Angeles, CA (5) for this unenviable distinction.

"It was really a combination of several factors that pushed DC to the #1 ranking," wrote Dr. Greg Forbes, TWC's severe weather expert and meteorologist Jon Erdman, in an email to the Capital Weather Gang (CWG).

TWC highlighted our region's record heat, three rounds of severe thunderstorms, and developing drought as rationale for D.C.'s top ranking.

D.C.'s combination of extreme weather bested (or more appropriately "worsted") 110 90+ days in Little Rock, 30" of rain and flooding in Des Moines, a tropical depression, tropical storm and hurricane in Brownsville, and persistently gray conditions in normally sunny Los Angeles. . ." http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/2010/09/weather_channel_dc_had_worst_s.html#more

The weather here in DC is the worst anywhere, and I have lived as far south as Fort Lauderdale, FL and as far north as Traverse City, MI. To which I hope to return, and sooner rather than later, winters notwithstanding (three-four months a year renting in the Carolinas will take care of winter).

Gratuitous Traverse City photo follows. Hold down a seat at a restaurant in the area for me, aficionados Michael Moore and Mario Batali. Like I said, I am so outta DC:

[high density]

1. In Maine we had a great winter, spring, and summer

DC got all of our snow, and then it looks like it got most of the extreme heat too. It makes up for last year which was just horrible.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

2. Raleigh, NC was no picnic, either.

Heat, humidity and drought. First day of fall today and it was at least 93 ^%$!( degrees. 95 tomorrow and Saturday.

[HillbillyBob]

3. And about 50 miles nw of Raleigh in Caswell county it hit 98 today

and 110 against the west side of the house.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

7. Ugh. I heard 78 AND RAIN (!) on Sunday...

which pleases me to no end. Hope it cools off up your way, too.

[rucky]

4. I think they had the worst winter, too.

What would Pat Robertson say about that?

[anarch]

5. I dunno, it didn't seem all that bad to me

It always gets pretty ugly here in the summer...the storms were pretty intense this year, but I've seen worse. Then again, I didn't get to travel much this year, except to Philadelphia, and the couple of days I was there, it was actually hotter than it was in DC. :shrug:

[MrScorpio]

6. DC summers have never been picnics

I've known quite a few