Forecast: Warm into Sat., then windy & cooler

Two 10's in a row! (too bad I have to work).

Q: Have we ever had a zero?

Hi eric654 - nope, no zeros that I recall. It has to be pretty catastrophic for a zero, I suspect :) Because we live in DC, well, it can't ever get but so bad, right? I think one of our four "blizzards" this last winter warranted a "1" rating...

I still can't believe I issued a 10! I am tough on awarding the top-end of the scale, as well as the bottom-end! two in a row, like you say.. wow.

I transplanted some tomatoes this week in Takoma Park -- how concerned should I be about the possibility of temps below 40? Does TKPK count as a "colder suburb"?

Takoma Park is hardly the suburbs.

I think I gave a 0 maybe once? I can't recall the occurance, I'll try and look back through.

playing tennis saturday morning - wouldn't you know it, during the only time in the next few days with any chance of rain....

Camden,
a 9 or 10 today is justified. but re the "4 blizzards" are you kidding?!?! those warranted a "10" - perfect winter weather as i'm concerned.

Brian,
a "0" might be warranted for a 33 degrees and rainy day in winter.

Walter, you're right, I did give a 0 on Jan 17 for a rainy winter day.

Many thanks. My guess was freezing drizzle, but even that would have some aesthetic value, you can take pictures of it. I have not seen too many pictures of 33 degree rainy days.

i imagine on jan 17 i was grumbling something about a "what a waste of precipitation...."

hi eric.

You all are great. Yes I would award "0" for that 33F rainy day :-) Maybe not a "10" for a blizzard though haha

r_zimmmy - if 40F is the danger zone for planting those, I would hold-off. There is more than a 50/50 chance that Takoma could see 40F one or two mornings over the upcoming 5 days. I would play it conservative and wait. I'm just a tad too nervous you could touch 40 degrees!

r_zimmmy - You're in the same boat I am.
Hope that the temps don't bottom out & if your transplants are really small cover them with lightweight material overnights until the heat comes back. If your plants are pretty big & robust then I wouldn't even bother.

Hi Walter, I don't remember if I complained that day or not. But I know all my trees appreciated the moisture we had last winter.

silly clouds... they know to move right on through our region, right? ;)

I'd give many of those nasty raw, "boring-forties" and "boring-thirties" windy, rainy days we had during the "Nasty Nino" winter of 1997/98 a "Zero" rating...also a couple of the extended raw, rainy, depressing spells last spring.

For me, the Blizzard was a "Ten"...the Feds were shut down! However, any severe storm that knocks out my power for 6+ hours certainly rates a "Zero". If we had gotten hit by the floods that recently hit Middle Tennessee, that would be a "Zero" if not close...the twenty-inch Tropical Storm Gaston deluge that hit Richmond a few years back would also qualify though thunderstorm activity might have raied that rating to a "2" or even a "3".

I think we should downgrade the day from 10 to 9, or even 8. It's been really gusty all day. A '10' would not allow for my newspaper to blow out of my hands this morning, or for the cafe umbrella launching itself at lunch.