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D.C.'s Friday weather seemed special for being ordinary
D.C.’s Friday weather seemed special for being ordinary
It was warm, but the high was five degrees cooler than average.
By Martin Weil
July 26, 2024 at 8:47 p.m. EDT
D.C. may take pride in its reputation for sultry summertime swelter, but Friday seemed the sort of day for wondering what all the fuss was about and whether the reputation was deserved.
It was true that Friday seemed obviously a summer day. Its high temperature of 85 degrees seemed clearly consistent with general expectations of summertime.
But Friday failed to inflict on the District the harsh meteorological extremism of many days earlier this month — including the four with temperatures above 100 degrees. ... However, if averages mean much, they may suggest that days such as Friday cannot readily be relied on to appear here always or often in July.
The average temperature in Washington on Friday’s date now stands at 90 degrees. So it would seem that part of Friday’s allure lay in the five-degree gap between its temperature and the District’s average July 26 temperature.
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By Martin Weil
Martin Weil is a longtime reporter at The Washington Post. Twitter https://twitter.com/martyweilwapost
It was warm, but the high was five degrees cooler than average.
By Martin Weil
July 26, 2024 at 8:47 p.m. EDT
D.C. may take pride in its reputation for sultry summertime swelter, but Friday seemed the sort of day for wondering what all the fuss was about and whether the reputation was deserved.
It was true that Friday seemed obviously a summer day. Its high temperature of 85 degrees seemed clearly consistent with general expectations of summertime.
But Friday failed to inflict on the District the harsh meteorological extremism of many days earlier this month — including the four with temperatures above 100 degrees. ... However, if averages mean much, they may suggest that days such as Friday cannot readily be relied on to appear here always or often in July.
The average temperature in Washington on Friday’s date now stands at 90 degrees. So it would seem that part of Friday’s allure lay in the five-degree gap between its temperature and the District’s average July 26 temperature.
{snip}
By Martin Weil
Martin Weil is a longtime reporter at The Washington Post. Twitter https://twitter.com/martyweilwapost