Mark your calendars, August 21 is the day a chill is in the morning air. Football season is around the corner (Hopefully this lovely air isn't localized to the DMV.) . I'm looking forward to publishing some football content next week and enjoying what stands to be an exciting season.
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Crisp and 66 in ATL this morning! Gotta love it!
You can almost smell it!
I live near Durham, NC and when I went out this morning there was definitely a fall-like chill in the air. So, not just DMV.
I, too, am anticipating an exciting season.
Let's go!
46 degrees in Bburg this morning. Let's go baby
This^^^^
46 this am in Christiansburg.
Felt glorious.
We're going to have a repeat tomorrow! Love it!
Aaandd, it's getting hot next week. Summer isn't over.
Didn't break into a sweat when I let the dogs out this morning in SC so that was nice.
Low 50s west of Philly too. As if I wasn't already excited enough for football season
57 in SWVA. Felt it in my plums. It's football time.
50s here in Kentucky and definitely feels like fall.
...too bad it's jumping right back up into the 90s this weekend
Beautiful morning here in Durham!
My cousin's ex husband used to say the first cold morning means football is upon us
55 degrees on the drive to work in King George, VA. So much for global warming! ;^)
High of 108 here in the valley of the sun today. But still football weather as far as I am concerned
Fuck, how do you even deal with that?
It's a dry heat
ill tell you how. Went to Sammy Haggar last night- outdoors- probably 110 when we parked. In the shade/pavillion- its 95 ish, there was a breeze and virtually no humidity. It wasn't bad at all. Now I saw DMB in Virginia one summer when it was 90 degrees and I wanted to die and I sweat through my shirt. It is very different in terms of how it feels- regardless the temperature. The key is from 2pm-6pm do not be outside for any period of time. That is when the sun is most intense as it comes back down. So no tailgating yesterday. lol
I was in the desert of eastern Oregon about 8 years ago for work and it was my first true experience with the dry heat. Walked from my hotel to get coffee and the employee asked if i was crazy for ordering a hot coffee on a 95 degree day. I told her it felt like a 75 degree fall day in Maryland lol
It used to blow my mind when I would leave Dos Gringos in Scottsdale ('00-'04) after last call and it would still be 105°. It was hot for a few months but the pay off was Sept-April /May.
Haven't you wondered why he's always so agitated and angry in here?
It's only supposed to be a high of 99 here in Dallas today, so pretty nice since its the first day in a week or so to be under 100,
A brisk 79 degrees this morning here in Palm Harbor FL, but ready for football nonetheless! Arriving in the burg two weeks from tomorrow. Ready to jump!
I let the dogs out this morning in Mooresville and told my wife, "It's brisk out there. Smells like fall."
68 in NW Arkansas. Pretty amazing. Can't wait for the leaves to turn. It start snow!
I'm headed to Bentonville tomorrow - looking forward to a little cool morning air!
This would be a great label for a Winter Warmer style beer.
Charleston, SC did not get the memo. 84 and soupy here...
It was in the 70s at 7 in Beaufort! 77 but 70s nonetheless
Sorry, but I'm not anywhere near Charleston today.
We call them "spatula days"...
my guess is that you need a spatula to scrape people off the pavement
I thought it was more about having to do this move when its hot a humid out....
Eh, close.
With the summer humidity in Virginia, you need a spatula to pry certain appendages off your leg
Spectacular here in Chapel Hill. Looking at my trusty weather app, though, we're back to 92 degrees and 72 degree dew point (which means super soupy) by next Wednesday. :(
My coworkers here have described it as the NC false-fall that apparently hits every year. Either way it is gorgeous
63 on the Cape right now. Can't wait for football. Will be in Blacksburg for a mini-reunion of old classmates on the Rutgers game/weekend, my first game in over a decade.
It's 84 degrees (10:30am) here in the Bahamas.
Isn't it always? /s
The high today is 93. Unfortunately today is the last day of my cruise
It was 42 degrees in Rural Retreat, and I soaked in every second of it I could.
70 at 11:42 AM in Newport News. It's a UK heat wave!
I love the smell of football in the morning!
I am pretty sure there are at least two season of pollening in Virginia.
it's below 90 in St Aug, we'll take it
Bye bye pool. Hello pads, red drum, and lobster rolls.
This is an underated comment. You Go French!
This is the time of year you watch The Shining?
I always enjoy these kind of mornings/days, of course, but around here (and many other places listed above me, I imagine) we call this phenomenon "Fake Fall" and these fake-outs inspire hope before it returns to 80 degree mornings and 90+ highs for those who haven't seen this movie too many times to count.
In Dayton for the past few days we've been hitting the low 70s, I woke up this morning to the upper 40s. It was glorious.
...unfortunately, we jump back into the 80s tomorrow and 90s after that
When are you going to come down to Cincy for one of our game watch parties?
Hey now, I'm down for it. Shoot me the details and we'll figure something out!
Either join Cincinnati Hokies on Facebook or send an email to cincyhokies@gmail.com and I will get you in the know
It was an absolute gorgeous day here in SE NC (Wilmington area). Crisp morning with a high of 78 today. I don't want summer to leave just yet, but that Fall swell has already been making an appearance! Love it!
For me it started football weather and is my third or fourth favorite holiday,
Kidsgobacktoschool Eve.
Not that my kids have a full five day week until mid-November.
mine started on The 20th, and other areas near here started sooner than that.
Rode the motorcycle to work this morning in VB and could cut glass by the time I got there.
Same. It was chilly.
I miss Fall weather. But I don't miss summers of sustained 80+ with humidity, with spurts of 90+ and 100+. And I don't miss the winters or the rainy spring weather. I will likely remain in the Southern California coastal weather for a long while. Even if that means I don't have any disposable income.
Moved to phoenix over a year ago. Lived in the mid atlantic and nowhere else my entire life to that point. The best part about phoenix weather is the worst part about mid alantic weather- a 3 week fall or spring. Here its months of that type of weather- not cold, not oppressively hot. In MD- you had about 6 weeks of that all year. Not unlike a VT football season. By late october you are freezing your ass off at the tailgate. In early sept, you get sunburn on the east side of Lane and its nasty. The longer moderate weather here in PHX is awesome- the eat outside, stogey outside, BBQ weather is months- not weeks here.
Sounds wonderful. I miss actual fall and spring seasons. I grew up in New England, we actually had four seasons then. Virginia seems to have winter, blink, summer, blink, and Winter again.
I will say dessert nights are awesome. Maybe the most perfect weather (except for dead-of-summer when it's still 100+ at midnight). Warm, comfortable, and no UV rays. Great for outdoor drinking, pool parties, outdoor TV watching, etc. And much better than coastal nights on the Pacific. The song Sweater Weather lyric "it's too cold" is accurate description of a coastal night.
Mid-September through November in Appalachia is some of my favorite weather, but there's a lot of nostalgia in those months. No more burning or sweating, the humidity goes away, gorgeous scenery (especially with the leaves), perfect time for hiking, and VT football.
The things that I missed the most while living in Washington:
1. warm nights in the summer. it would drop to the 40s or 50s at night, and I really didn't like that much outside of being able to turn off the ac at night.
2. thunderstorms. I'm a weather nut, I adore thunderstorms. I heard thunder** twice while living there for 3 years.
I've lived in SoCal since 2008 and I think experienced a total of 3 thunderstorms here. It's pretty weird, tbh. But, I"m OK with it. And when I visit my parents in NM in the summer, I get my thunderstorm fix. In the desert mountains, there is a pretty cool ability to be able to watch a thunderstorm 30 to 60 miles away (but you can't hear them until it's close).
I like thunderstorms too- in general(Dad was a meteorologist in the Air Force in the late '50s to early 7'0s) though this past Sunday I wasn't cause a nasty one with hail and lots of lightning came through right where I live and knocked my (and a lot of others) power out for 24 hours(and more for some) and killed a man just a mile away from my house when a 50 foot eight foot diameter oak tree fell on his truck and crushed it. The truly tragic and poignant part was he and his wife had returned from a vacation an hour before and his wife was walking their dog in the neighborhood when it started hailing., She called him and asked him to come pick her up and he was on his way when the tree fell on his truck. Can't imagine the guilt she must feel- undeserving of it though she is.
Seems like we have averaged at least one a week this summer in the NRV.
Another beautiful morning here on Topsail Island... 67 degrees with little humidity (for eastern NC).
Welp. It was nice while it lasted. We're shooting our way back up in to the mid 90s for some reason.