Photo by Samer FarhaBack in December, I offered up my soul to any higher power in earshot for sultry summer weather. I didn’t get my wish right away, but now that it’s here, I feel compelled to suffer the sun silently. As hot as it gets, it’s still better than standing snow on the ground well into spring.
It is gonna get pretty hot. The blazingest summer on record in the District remains the heat wave of the 1930s, which prompted this hilarious-looking cartoon that the Capital Weather Gang dug up this morning. This week won’t get quite that warm, but there’s plenty of time left: Today marks the first official day of summer. The District will celebrate with temperatures between 90–94 degrees (that feel even hotter than that) almost every day this week.
With summer comes a special dose of insanity in the District, as tourists become intolerable obstacles along Metro escalators that suffer frequent breakdowns — while violence climbs everywhere tourists aren’t. Perhaps the city can add fires to the list of summertime problems: D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services tangled with three separate blazes last night.
