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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's probably already been said but remembering exactly how to pronounce Isaias from 2020 is another way to measure how ridiculously fast time seems to have passed.

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Air Force stepping up their pollution this evening. Might as well do some sky writing if there's no other accomplishment when you touchdown

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I hear you. Like Secret Service, they can do "selective enforcement" and there's been a lot more of that lately

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I was pulled over by USPP in Petworth last week and immediately surrounded by ICE and CPB. The reason cited for the stop was allegedly expired tags. After a brief interrogation, the officer claimed that he accidentally mistyped the plate prior to the stop.

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The federal helo pollution is noticeably terrible these days, particularly the air taxi practice from Andrews. Most of it operates at lower altitudes than local PD and private medical. As for the Eagle, USPP is chomping at the bit to launch that thing for any number of reasons.

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Tree down on my starboard side at Tidal Basin

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This one is rocking the car. A tree just came down in the space next to me. #dcwx

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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What a remarkable view. A hurricane trio in the Pacific. Lowell, Karina and Marie.

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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I wonder if boomers felt this way when they found out we weren't alive for Kennedy, Nixon, etc or if this is this a new form of self-loathing

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

tbh was hoping someone would throw the sucker punch you shouldn't be outside during distant lightning to which was ready to respond "thunder didn't roar, stayed outdoors"

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I just got some lightning + look at me footage on the court. Thanks for understanding.

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

More unrealistically and controversially, tornadoes would be categorized like tropical systems with nomenclature that differentiates spin-ups from higher-end tornadoes, more like the threat that the word conjures

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

So many tornado warning takes, so little time but I've always wished the the criteria for warnings was stricter so that QLCS, shelf gustnados, and other brief spin-ups are covered by SVR

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I had a dream last night that there was still a pile of snowcrete in my backyard and I don't know what it means

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Broad Branch Road NW doing its thing

Soapstone Branch overtops Broad Branch Road NW, sending brown and white water rapids spilling over a wall and into Rock Creek. A nearby "Road Flooded" warning beacon is dark despite dangerous, swift water racing underneath it.

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

These guys in Rock Creek Park concur

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I'm somewhat surprised by just how acrid everything looks and smells this time. Warm white balance, no filter.

Lower visibility through wildfire smoke looking south down Connecticut Avenue NW near Van Ness.

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This. Whenever I visit a new city, I study the major roads ahead of time and then try to drive as much as possible without help from apps, briefly peeking if needed.

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Beat the Traffic: The Highways That Cause the Biggest Headaches - www.radioworld.com/news-and-bus...

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

A capstone lightning bolt during the Fourth of July fireworks, facing south on Connecticut Avenue from Dupont Circle.

A jagged cloud-to-ground lightning bolt streaks directly behind a bright cluster of fireworks bursting above the darkened silhouette of the Washington D.C. skyline. The bottom of the bolt near the ground is tinged orange as it enters the smoke plume below the fireworks.

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I'm too old fashioned for a lightning trigger. 😅

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Tricky with lots of irregular fireworks brightness and infrequent bolts so tonight's were mostly rapid 2-4" exposures with a higher aperture.

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

An ancient Nikon, a kit lens that's cracked, a tripod with a bent leg, and decades of photog failures.

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Cloud-to-ground lightning, ground-to-cloud fireworks in DC.

A photo I took facing south down Connecticut Avenue from Dupont Circle showing a lightning bolt and the Independence Day fireworks.

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This is DC's skyline right now IN THE RAIN.

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Northbound traffic on I-97 gets around the damage in the grass on the median. Future diversion possible. The July 2012 heat wave caused a concrete section of Route 50 near Bowie to buckle. Climate change and aging infrastructure make failures like this more likely.

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

He's the designated DC heat czar right?

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The extreme heat has just led to a concrete section of I-97 in Maryland buckling north of Benfield Boulevard. The concrete blowout extends across the travel lanes from shoulder to shoulder. @ianlivingston.bsky.social

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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 22/06/2024

Everything you ever needed to know about the typical DC 100-degree day (100 or plus) in one chart. Somewhat interestingly, the hourly average never hits 100 but there are obs in between hourly reports as well. Only June days may have a bit different structure will try to check. #dcwx #vawx

The progression of the "typical" day reaching 100 degrees or more. Benchmarks include 90 by 11a and 95 by 1p.

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I received a WEA tornado warning at 37,000 feet for this storm today.

A towering thunderstorm over eastern Colorado seen from anvil-level at cruising altitude.

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Per VSP, 5 dead and 34 people sent to hospitals following I-95 bus crash near Quantico. The southbound lanes remain closed near the Stafford/Prince William County line.

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The old, precast concrete panel broke off an elevated portion of the retaining wall beneath the bridge beams. A DDOT contractor remains in right lane today.

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

In DC, a big slab of concrete fell off a bridge/retaining wall onto I-395 under 7th Street SW earlier today. Similar occurrence in NYC on the Trans-Manhattan Expressway earlier this month.

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I would take 11K feet any day over daily DC rotor washing.

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The soothing sound of government waste to lull everyone to sleep @ianlivingston.bsky.social

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I was rotor-blasted out of bed at 9am this morning by the same cacophonous orbit.

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Over the winter, I decided I was going to reintroduce this into my lexicon this year. I even started rehearsing rebuttals to pedantic meteorologists. I remember being young and hearing relatives use the phrase. It has its place beyond nostalgia.

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

All avenues and streets around the Lincoln and WWII memorials closed for a presidential tour of the not so blue Reflecting Pool. The motorcade just drove down into the empty basin.

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Dave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Update: A living person looked at this and dismissed it in the spot. Moral? Don't just assume you're guilty and pay a fine that could have been wrongly assessed. Auto enforcement could, in utopia, be good but there are problems with it.

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