Archive: Lipman
Veterans Day often signals stormy weather
* Cloudy, cool, breezy and damp: Full Forecast | Photo contest * Snow blankets a Veterans Day ceremony Nov. 11, 1987 in Washington, D.C. Courtesy washingtonprints.com Depending on whether you think of the start of winter as Dec. 1 (meteorological...
By Don Lipman | November 11, 2009; 11:00 AM ET | Comments (1)
October Offers Fall's Finest (Usually)
* Sun today, but clouds, rain coming: Full Forecast * A beautiful fall October day in Adams Morgan Sunday. By CWG's Ian Livingston. Weatherwise, the month of October is a transitional month for Washington. While the average high and low...
By Don Lipman | October 13, 2009; 10:30 AM ET | Comments (2)
An Inch of Rain - What Does it Mean?
A rain gauge. Image courtesy NASA. Although the definition of "an inch of rain" sounds simple enough--rainfall totaling one inch in some sort of measuring cup--what an inch of rain really stands for is sometimes not always clear. When I...
By Don Lipman | September 15, 2009; 10:30 AM ET | Comments (1)
Hurricane Camille: She Was No Lady!
Looking back forty years * Hot Start to Week: Full Forecast | Hurricane Tracking Center * * Tropical Update: Ana Ailing, Bill Blossoming * The Richelieu Apartments in Pass Christian, Ms. before and after Hurricane Camille. Images courtesy NOAA. As...
By Don Lipman | August 17, 2009; 12:00 PM ET | Comments (10)
It's Not the Heat...
Debunking misconceptions about humidity * Finally, Some Rain? Full Forecast | NatCast | D.C.'s Lightning Rod * * Outside Now? Radar, Temps & More: Weather Wall | Lightning Map * Photo courtesy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Unless you've...
By Don Lipman | July 23, 2009; 11:00 AM ET | Comments (13)
June Recap: Another Wet Month
* Nice Start to Week: Full Forecast * Rainfall (in inches) during the April-June period the last two years compared to average at Reagan National Airport (DCA). Although not as extreme as May, June 2009 continued the trend of wetter...
By Don Lipman | July 6, 2009; 10:30 AM ET | Comments (13)
A Year Without a Summer?
* Saturday Storms Follow Fair Friday: Full Forecast | NatCast * By Don Lipman, Volunteer Contributor When your grandfather tells you that both winters and summers are not what they used to be, he was probably correct, but not the...
By Capital Weather Gang | June 19, 2009; 11:00 AM ET | Comments (11)
Reader Mail: Use of the Dewpoint Should Die
By Don Lipman, Volunteer Contributor "Matt from D.C." wants to abolish popular use of the dewpoint. In an email to the Capital Weather Gang, he rants: It just seems pointless to introduce a term that seems of no use to...
By Capital Weather Gang | June 9, 2009; 10:30 AM ET | Comments (31)
Not Your Typical May - Or Was It?
* Warm Followed by Showers/Storms: Full Forecast | NatCast * By Don Lipman, Guest Contributor If you're an outdoor tennis enthusiast, as I am, there wasn't much to cheer about last month. We didn't set any monthly rainfall records and...
By Capital Weather Gang | June 2, 2009; 10:00 AM ET | Comments (9)
