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April Across Washington, DC
Monday, April 4th, 2022
⛅🧥☁️🚴🌸
Monday feels special. As in— it’s kind of cool,
good for coats early, glowed-up by afternoon;
not just another softly-sunlit scampering day
with clouds rooting (for you) week-over cast-array;
not just another landmark scientific climate
report amid emergence of network support;
(for me) not just another planet-ride ‘round the sun
when DC's light granite breeze blows for everyone.
Monday’s coming-in pollen-heavy as it’s all happening—
(for us) kind of like our week-ahead’s weather, springing
mid-week rain, banded in-between Spring 50s-60s°F,
while a mitigating force within us resists—
Monday feels special. Because Monday's with us in this.
Tuesday, April 5th, 2022
☁️🌧️🌬️☂️☔
Tuesday— grab and hold onto your umbrellas and rain jackets, tidal-river-cradled city. Air will be wet and slipping between seasonable slight Spring temps. Soil should get some moist microbial nourishment, but for our rooting: commuting or your neighborhood walk might not be as pleasant.
☂️ Early— lighter rain patches peck the grasses in neglected places as clouds accumulate. 🌬️Throughout— a steady 5-10mph breeze blurs moisture-ribbed skies with cloudcover.
☔Later— heavier rains pour rivers into streets, maybe over an inch.
Among other things, Happy National Poetry Month— here’s a poem offering from David Ebenbach in THRUSH, “City of Weather”
Wednesday, April 6th, 2022
☁️🌧️🌬️☂️🧭
Wednesday: early AM rain; PM some sun; overnight more rain.
“Climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals.”
Clouds crawl all over Wednesday like bugs teeming in a wet Rock Creek bog.
“But the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels.”
Wednesday winds breeze steadily AM but squirm PM when it becomes apparent.
“Investing in new fossil fuels infrastructure is moral and economic madness.”
Wednesday maps an atlas of goodness in divestment from badness.
Thursday, April 7th, 2022
🌧️🌫️⛈️☔
Thursday is the most important story ever told—
how you get through. A journey.
With rain expected, prepare to protect against it.
Through shower batches possible thunderstorms slog.
And visibility decreases in patches of fog.
Hair-ability, too, decreases as if on a jog.
Shrouds lace-down from Dawn’s cloud.
Which, she never lets me borrow.
But you come prepared.
With the perfect jacket to wear.
Grace in oodles for yourself. And for others, extra care.
Because The Way you fight your forces through to tell your story
Thursday enables more climate action in resistance.
With compassion and interconnectedness.
Friday, April 8th, 2022
Don’t put away your raingear, yet. Friday morning brings DC a brief break from the almost two inches of rain gained through this week; skies still most-parts cloudy. I have an umbrella and jacket by the door for the afternoon dogwalk, expecting more of the same: light April showers softly beckoning Weekend blossoms.
DC’s weekend looks to break the wet-spell. Clouds and sun oscillate. Great for folks planning to join the blockade of Joe Manchin’s coal plant. Where air temperatures cool slightly, remind yourself this is perhaps The Best DC Spring gets, before the swamp-sweating Summer-plunge to come. And enjoy.
Monday, DC's dawn comes at you with crisp energy.
Stepping-up temps into balmy warmth, with the quick curiosity of a perky pup.
Winds whine, temperatures wind-up, and everyone gets what they’re begging for: with each hour more to wag your tail towards, warming enough to enjoy getting lost on your evening trail. As we head out for the late-dogwalk, blooming dogwood, and smiling dogpals create a Cataclysm of Bark— in both high tree pollen counts and the convergence of eight dogs on the block.
Week-wide— warmth continues, but more mid-week shower chances could stay the allergen-upswing. All giving DC these Dog Days of Spring.
Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
🌱
Reaching past 70s°F by noon, DC warms Tuesday into a pleasant Spring day. An early morning isolated shower-start may skip areas-over before some sun breaks-through. Be like any one of DC's many Tulips— come alive amid the renewal. But feel free to avoid the pernicious pollen, enjoying your break outside, your comfortable commute, or your window-view of prime Spring flourishing.
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Tuesday evening saves some of the day’s warmth, staying fairly mild. And the heat-up continues past Tuesday, with more heat, humidity, and shower chances Wednesday and Thursday. Break-out your lighter layers for a sampling of that swamp simmer over these next few days.
🌷
Wednesday, April 13th, 2022
Wednesday warms ⛅🐦🚲🌷 70s-80s°F highs into Thursday.
WARMER THAN AVERAGE WEDNESDAY SONNET
Wednesday is warmer than average.
Like the last decade / different degrees,
hot Spring-highs crave a cool beverage —
drink water, Water Planet, and breeze
by my place later, bike by after work
past those Union Station azaleas
in-bloom. We can organize in the park
near the spreading memes and sweet changes —
more sprouting, more sweating, more shirts Tees.
With chances of spotty thunderstorms,
late skies flush and quip their praise and tease,
a warmth worn before, not over-worn:
one meme grows, nothing earth-shattering,
it goes: “Florals— for Spring? Groundbreaking.”
Thursday, April 14th, 2022
Thursday stays warm, but lives for the drama. With a potent low-pressure system seeping over the southeast US and Mid-Atlantic coasts, parts of the DMV will likely see some periodic showers near midday, with a moderate chance of afternoon thunderstorms developing heavier rains and damaging winds into evening. Get your rain gear handy and think about your PM commute or back-up plans just in case. With highs again in the 80s, heat peaks for the week Thursday before heading out towards a slightly cooler but more-seasonably-Spring end of week vibe.
Friday, April 15th, 2022
☀️🚴🌱🌷🌕
Exit Stage Mid-Atlantic: this week’s roaming storm system.
Give us that great Friday behind you we’ve been missing.
Miss us with your heavy rains and damaging winds.
Keep us grateful for any sun every time Spring begins.
Friday's warm bright gives us sunny glowing rays.
Fills our cups (drink water) with whatever’s in our gaze:
fresh cut grass, pollen masses, waving young leaves,
keep that feeling for the cooler Weekend to receive.
Following Friday, a slight-cooling is expected.
Bringing highs to mid-50s temps and
again, with shower chances/umbrellas on-hand,
listen for signals in quieting bird Spring tunes
through DC’s weekend under a full pink moon.
Monday, April, 18th, 2022
☂️🌷
Ready for cool showers likely mid-morning Monday to persist periodically into evening. Turn-out in jackets
for both water and warmth. Chilly gesturing breezes urge extra protection. Like a natural metaphor strives to
biomimic— find your Earth inspiration.
The way an umbrella is an upside down tulip;
The way an upside down tulip is an umbrella.
Find your Earth inspiration— strive to biomimic like a natural metaphor. Urge extra protection by these
moisturized-mild temps until mid-week renewal. Then it all turns-out upside down towards warmth.
Every Week is Earth Week. As in, Opportunity to Dive Deep—
with Environmental Justice Teach-Ins, Bringing Outside-In.
Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
⛅🧥🌬️🚲
Tuesday blows icy-sharp shapes in the sky in mixed cloud-cover. Temperatures stay fairly cool for Spring and may feel airy in chilly, gusting winds. Get your jacket and possibly even your scarf to stay warm. Especially out at night, when the mostly clear cold drops towards freezing.
The rest of the week warms progressively, readying groundwork for you to grow grassroots: whether in-person or in-solidarity, joining organizing actions happening —
🌤️ Wednesday: Passover Fossil-Free Divestment Action 11AM
☀️ Friday: Earth Day Climate Strike 3PM
☀️ Saturday: Fight for Our Future Rally for Climate, Care, Jobs and Justice 1PM
Wednesday, April 20th, 2022
Wednesday’s a mostly sunny ode to Spring in DC parks
sharing jacketed love until 60s°F afternoon highs,
calmer winds skip around through DC like ants at
dawn free-verse sidewalk-long from Langdon Park,
for Chuck Brown, across the river to Fort Circle Park,
then splitting up, some marching to Anacostia’s marsh
and others towards Kenliworth while more venture
back across to the Yards, and others the other way
towards Marvin Gaye, through large spaces
and small encompassing pockets, all parks
deep with Spring, where bikes ride and rabbits hop,
about through city squares (also parks!) —
whatever surrounds — sunlit life sprouts.
Thursday, April 21st, 2022
Thursday warms more. With some wind expected AM. So I’ll wear a light layer early, and then pretty soon after my morning commute, maybe more-midday, I’m expecting to be a bit annoyed at myself to have to carry it around. But it will be worth it! For some clouds and some sun to usher in more warmth until we’re back into seasonable Spring highs near 70°F. No worries if you don’t make it outside to enjoy enough of the day: temperatures stay through Friday— and rise even warmer into the weekend. Great weather for bike riding and climate striking. 🚲📣⛅🐦🌷
Friday, April 22nd, 2022
Friday’s sunny early; later, clouds could waft through
warm weather that gives you so much to do. Do-ing
weather, it’s giving flowers cycling in calm breezes, climate
strikers circling powers, folks walking about, remembering to
drink water, people planning, pollen falling, and Weekend calling.
🚴♀️
Saturday is so nice it’s already blowing up your phone.
Like an endless Earth Day calendar notification you can’t swipe away,
as it is every day technically, that Earth's sending signals of
the climate and ecological crises, an exponential number
of notifications, making every day one to reply: yes, we’re in—
let’s fight for the future.
🌞
Sunday simmers hotter highs, welcoming tee-shirts and shorts.
👕
Monday, April 25th, 2022
Monday: DC steps a humid smidge, cautiously catching morning patchy fog in its wisp. Careful for reduced visibility. As chalky skies smudge clouds over daytime, seasonable Spring dawns 60°F into mid-70's highs, holding tepid warmth into night.
Tuesday: DC may see afternoon showers, so we'll keep a pulse on precipitation for sketching our week ahead.
From some weekend reads—good shares across DC:
Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
🌫️⛅🌧️☂️
Near-midday shower chances Tuesday in 60s-to-mid-70s°F temperatures call for lighter layers, like a slicker. Any rainfall we get’s expected to be less than a tenth of an inch, not much thicker. Periodic precipitation may shake out through the day, so stay cautious on commutes on and about your way.
In our seasonal DC temperature tug-of-warmth, Cool Spring yanks sharply on our week. So much slack is let slink that Wednesday’s markedly cooler and less humid. Simmering Summer is still there, at the far end, anchored ahead. But she’s letting Cool Spring take this round. For now.
Wednesday, April 27th, 2022
Chill winds blow and gust Wednesday from a cool airmass covering our corner. Getting caught in the windy melodrama feels like the weave-ing whiplash of holding your arms-out in a metro wind tunnel, letting go, and flapping with flipping zephyr shards. 🌬️🧣🧥🚲 But these gusts ground us on the losing end of this week’s tug-of-warmth, into unseasonable cold for a day or two. Best layer-up and scarf-down; and layer even thicker if out with the nighttime waning crescent shiver. Even through all the dry liveliness: skies gleam mostly clear.
Thursday, April 28th, 2022
🌬️🌤️
Thursday’s cool and lively. Good again for a layer in mild temps. Winds get gusty. Keeping highs to just 60°F during the day. And lowering nighttime lows. But pollen’s expected to ride high. Like that one tree which seemed to get its leaves overnight. Times thousands. You imagine all the fresh green homes canopy-grown. Because everyone needs one.
🌳🏠
Yesterday, along with other council members, Ward 4 council member, Janeese Lewis George, introduced Green New Deal legislation to create social housing powered by pollution-free energy and remove lead pipes in DC. Towards a fossil-free, lead-free, affordable, and equitably thriving green DC.
Friday, April 29th, 2022
In our relatively cool end to April, here's what's ahead:
☀️ Friday: sunny with a slight warm-up comparatively. Not a lot of humidity until Sunday.
🌤 Saturday: sunny with more warmth and a couple clouds. A light breeze sifts around.
🌧️ Sunday: cloudy with shower chances likely. Early dawn birdsong sings skies lively.
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sounding-off to flock and nest
called-in to join and protect
for all to tweet and fly free
birds be reclaiming,
remaking, renaming —
when who really owns
skies, canopies, homes?
DC already knows
how struggles for self-determination go
in solidarity, in action, in care, in health,
enjoy your weekend, Washington, Douglass Commonwealth.