WASHINGTON (7News) \u2014 At the start of 2025, drought conditions persisted around the DMV, dating back to the summer of 2024.<\/p>\n
As winter turned to spring, and days upon days of rain and heavy thunderstorms in May lasting through most of June before tapering off through July, completely eliminated the year-long drought.<\/p>\n
May 2025 ended with more than double the average rainfall for the month, with 7.73 inches of rain!<\/p>\n
However, since the beginning of August, rainfall has abruptly ended for most of the region. <\/p>\n
To date at Reagan National Airport (DCA), the official reporting location for Washington, D.C., only 0.20 inches of rain has been tallied. This equates to roughly 10% of the average rainfall to date.<\/p>\n
August 2025 is in 1st place for driest August on record, below the current driest, which was August 1962 with 0.55 inches. With no meaningful rainfall in the forecast, it’s likely it will remain in the number 1 spot.<\/p>\n
Dulles International and Baltimore\/Washington International airports have received more rain than reported at DCA, but are also below average.<\/p>\n
The precipitation outlooks from the Climate Prediction Center continue to call for dry conditions to last as we start September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (7News) \u2014 At the start of 2025, drought conditions persisted around the DMV, dating back to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[2254,1687,69771,15229,192,59018,42688,17164,79,2316],"class_list":["post-105049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-august","tag-climate","tag-dmv","tag-drought","tag-environment","tag-precipitation","tag-rainfall","tag-record","tag-science","tag-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}