In the midst of August, Washington’s lengthy historical past of warmth and humidity, of sweat by day and swelter by night time, bears at the very least some accountability for the proliferation of holidays and the recognition of seashore resorts.
Washington
Our unsummerlike Saturday could have been another season
And as for the humidity, it appeared to have quietly decamped from metropolis and suburb.
Within the morning, Washington temperatures spent hours within the 60s, an invigorating realm that has been little visited right here by the mercury this summer time.
On solely two of the 31 days of July did we’ve got a single minute with a temperature beneath 70.
Earlier than Saturday, solely sooner or later this month had such a temperature, and that was Friday, a day that shared lots of the fascinating qualities of Saturday.
Till Friday, we had endured 31 consecutive summer time days, with out an official minute beneath 70. However on Saturday, Washingtion fortunately hosted the 60s for at the very least seven hours within the morning.
Saturday nearly appeared a part of a newly found season. Maybe it represented a rerun of late spring, blended with a touch of early autumn.
It absolutely appeared to have little in widespread with what we count on from sultry August.
Affirmation of Saturday’s dry, no-sweat standing got here from the dew factors.
In late afternoon, these numerical indicators of human consolation registered within the uncommonly comfortable 40s.
These low dew factors could also be learn to say that any stray drop of perspiration can be whisked away and swallowed up by the thirsty air round us.
With water vapor nearly absent from our air, so too was the standard haze by way of which we see the scenes of summer time.
With summer time’s softening haze not seen, the brilliance of the summer time solar, nonetheless excessive in Saturday’s ultra-blue skies, appeared to beam with most depth
Its mild gave what gave the impression to be a surpassing brightness to the quiet streets and sights of what nearly appeared a metropolis at its summer time emptiest.
Leaves and lawns appeared nearly iridescent of their radiant greenness, and town’s brick and stone, its glass and asphalt, all appeared to current themselves with the sharp readability of a winter day, however in summer time daylight.