The record for rainfall for August 21 was shattered on Friday — only for the next day’s record at Dulles Airport to fall the very next day. That’s back-to-back records completely obliterated. You won’t see another two days of rainfall like these in a decade. And the lightning! People saw lightning from all over the city; violent thunder was reported in Capitol Hill, and people from surrounding counties discussed the weather with one another. Why is rainfall recorded officially at airports? While the rainfall was rampant, there was a record shortfall of any news whatsoever, consistent with the August news drought. Here is an August 23 story about the storms that passed over the District. (If that’s August reporting for you, this is August blogging.)