But there was a decline in humidity and in the feels-like temperature.
It was above 90 degrees in the District on Sunday, for the 17th day in the past 21. In that simmering three-week stretch, two of the four days below 90 were also fairly warm, with highs of 88.Washington is hot in July, often memorably so. For most of the month, the city’s average daily high temperature is 90. But Sunday was seven degrees above the District’s elevated average.
The heat index, a measure of the special torments presented by the combination of heat and humidity, remained in the 90s. Unlike Friday and Saturday, it made no forays above 100 degrees.Dew points, which also express the extent and effect of humidity, also declined on Sunday, remaining in the low 60s.
On Friday, the dew point just before 3 p.m. was an oppressive — if not insufferable — 74. By Saturday at the same hour, it had declined to 70 degrees. That was a descent perhaps not universally acknowledged.Such small distinctions make one summer’s day different from another. They prevent each day during a hot season from seeming to merge into the next, as only another unpleasantly torrid extension of what had come before.But in the main, these have been hot days. On Friday, D.C. Mayor Muriel E.
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