Dave Dildine

Dave Dildine

@dildinedave.bsky.social

Traffic and weather on air and online for DC area @wtopnews

331 Followers 155 Following 756 Posts Joined Jul 2023
14 hours ago
A road sign on a pole; its face concealed by a slab of wet snow sliding slightly downward.

Choose your own adventure

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Live Nation employee mocks customers as ‘so stupid’ in internal messages released in court case NEW YORK (AP) — Incendiary internal messages in which a Live Nation employee mocks customers as “so stupid” and says the company is “robbing them blind, baby” have been made public as over two dozen…

Live Nation employee mocks customers as ‘so stupid’ in internal messages released in court case

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20 hours ago
Daffodils in snow. Cherry blossoms in snow. Iris in snow. Pansies in snow.

It's basically here

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20 hours ago
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Spring is coming

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Long way to go

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1 day ago
DC Snowzilla Gauge in March snow.

Last time this year?

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Air Force is treating everyone to some late night pollution

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2 days ago

It kinda helps with the mosquitoes and sunburn too!

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3 days ago

Reminder for spring honeymooners:
pollen allergies followed by invasive mosquitoes coupled with daily back sweat, recurring heat exhaustion, and occasional sunburn.

But, no, you don't need a jacket.

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4 days ago
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Remember all that snow that fell from the Carolinas to Boston? I bet you assume this has been quite a snow season overall. Well, for the Lower 48, this is the least snowy season (through February) for any year since at least 1940-41 when looking at all years through February. Thanks humans!

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4 days ago
A grey squirrel couple atop each other, both peering outward from the hole in a wooden shelter box on the side of a hardwood tree in my backyard.

I nominated my backyard duo and might have to monetize my Squirrel Cam given the status of my retirement accounts this week 📉

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500 mb standardized departures for the Dec-Feb period. There's a +3.5 std. dev. contour over the 4-Corners region.

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4 days ago
A portable electronic message sign along the Dulles Toll Road warns about a work zone on the 30th of February, on March 8th no less.

We are not a smart society

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1 week ago
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nyt website currently resembles one of those mock covers people made before 2016 election: economy floundering, war in the middle east, scandal-plagued cabinet sec, brazen corruption....

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1 week ago

This opened up late last night—rebar and all—but couldn't be fixed until dampness cleared and temps rose into the 50s. There... I made it traffic & weather.

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1 week ago
MDOT traffic camera showing left lanes closed on the Inner Loop as concrete work continues.

There isn't enough doom here... so I'm adding the tire-eating deck puncture on the Capital Beltway Inner Loop at the aging American Legion Bridge. Emergency work zone badly bottlenecking rush hour traffic for the past 3 hours.

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1 week ago

To clarify, I love all trees, flowers, and I'm ¼ Japanese. I dislike hypefest. Carry on...

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1 week ago
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Happy spring, everyone!

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1 week ago

Proudly anti-elevator and going strong.

Without baggage, my floor limit is about 10. Under 5, I run all flights.

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1 week ago

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

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1 week ago
Another folding chair placed in a wet curb space with little snow even on grass nearby. A small pile of "snowcrete" remains from the January storm.

It was 0.9 inches, people

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1 week ago
A folding chair placed in a wet curb space with little snow even on grass nearby.

The space saving is a little out of control in DC these days

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1 week ago

had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane

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1 week ago
Wooden snow gauge shows around 1 inch of snow fell this March afternoon.

Not bad

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1 week ago

Rain for the rest of your life kthxbae

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1 week ago
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Wut?

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1 week ago

3/9/1999. The ETA's and AVN's depictions of a snowstorm were both discounted even as snow began. Seemed like the swv trof would shear out w scant overrunning. The forecast? -S and a ~1". But 6 hours later? CSI banding and 8-12"

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2 weeks ago
Top 10 one-day totals for snow in Providence ranged from 14.7 to 19 then 35.5 of the storm total 37.9 fell on Monday.

35.5 inches of the 37.9 inch snowfall total at Providence fell on Monday alone. The prior single-day record there was 19 inches with the Blizzard of 1996.

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2 weeks ago
A still satellite image of the blizzard of 2026 in the Northeast United States. This image contains the GeoColor product from the GOES-19 weather satellite from the evening of 2026-02-23.

A view we will not soon forget.

The Blizzard of 2026.

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