WTF: 106 Degrees Tomorrow?!?!?!

[MV Clyde]

Ok, enough with the heat already. Be careful out there. Stay hydrated.

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[KelOnWheels]

Heat index is 109

Maybe I’m glad I’m not ridi… WHAT AM I SAYING?

[Greenbelt]

Some thunderstorms on radar north of DC at 4pm — looks like they might miss us to the north? We’ll see

[jabberwocky]

I actually think I’d rather ride home in a thunderstorm than in the current heat. 😮

[consularrider]

@jabberwocky 25716 wrote:

I actually think I’d rather ride home in a thunderstorm than in the current heat. 😮

Come on, it’s already dropped from 101 to 98! And it does look like I may get home (the first time) wet from only sweat. Not so sure about the 9 pm ride from the Rhodeside PPTC Happy Hour.

[creadinger]

@consularrider 25717 wrote:

Come on, it’s already dropped from 101 to 98! And it does look like I may get home (the first time) wet from only sweat. Not so sure about the 9 pm ride from the Rhodeside PPTC Happy Hour.

Looks like the line drooping down from PA isn’t gonna make it and it lost a lot of strength anyway. Other than some small cells cruising about the area, there isn’t much left to be worried about out there right now.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@jabberwocky 25716 wrote:

I actually think I’d rather ride home in a thunderstorm than in the current heat. 😮

You might get to do both.

[jabberwocky]

shawnofthedread;25719 wrote:

you might get to do both.

Hooray!

[hencio]

Just start pouring here in Georgetown. Hoping it keeps up and the sun stays away, so I don’t have to ride home in the humid rainforest aftermath.

[consularrider]

Just some light stuff across the river in Rosslyn, but sure got dark out there all of a sudden….

[PotomacCyclist]

Could be some T-storms around 6:30 to 7.

[dasgeh]

From my office window, it seems like Tstorms right now in Foggy Bottom.

[ShawnoftheDread]

That cropped up fast. Hope it doesn’t last long.

[ShawnoftheDread]

Couldn’t wait it out. Got soaked to the skin in DC, but got to dry out a bit on the MVT. And the temp was nice.

[SilverSpring]

“Hurrah!” I thought as I pedaled up the ramp at about 4:15 headed for home, “NWS was wrong about the storms.”

“Splendid!” I thought, pedaling along up 5th and 6th street in DC, “All of those lightning strikes up ahead will be wonderful for recharging my flux capacitor.”

“Yikes”* I thought, realizing I don’t have a flux capacitor and have been feeling very mortal of late.

“Darn”** I thought, looking desperately for something under which to hide from the looming armageddon.

“What joy!” I thought, finding the Michigan Avenue underpass by Children’s Hospital under which to take refuge.

“I’m glad you’re home safe”*** said my wife, as I rolled in almost an hour late.

*Not, in fact, the precise word that formed when I saw I was about to die
**Appropriately edited for a family-friendly forum
***I didn’t know my Bride could, in fact, swear like a sailor

[creadinger]

I rolled out of the underground parking garage in Suitland around 5:15 and promptly saw two close lightning strikes to the south and the west so I turned around and decided to wait a bit. It rained heavily for about 15 minutes but after that I only had to deal with 3-4 miles of wet roads and the rest of the trip was dry and MUCH cooler than 101F(!!). Not a bad trade-off for only a 15 minute delay.

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