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Friday, July 1st, 2022
Committed to each other, we stay committed to a sunny Tomorrow —
both the literal Friday-Tomorrow & the figurative Future-Tomorrow,
which we know will be hot: both Friday-Tomorrow & Future-Tomorrow.
Friday-Tomorrow heats humid highs near the 90°F range,
while Future-Tomorrow climbs on fossil-fueled climate change.
Yet Sunniness abounds: both the figurative- multi-level
marketing campaign USA "Independence" (actually stealing our rights),
& the literal- solar power, generated in sunlight.
Saturday: hot, steaminess scattering possible showers.
Sunday: slightly less-hot, still steamy, storm chances in afternoon hours.
Monday: hotter, with sweat-dripping flowers.
Committed to each other, we have our own multi-cascading levels —
of Love - Joyful Resistance - Rage against Injustice - keep-on renewable rebels.
Wednesday, July 6th, 2022
☁️🌂🌧️☂️⛈️ Wednesday
Like DC’s partly cloudy morning
You are full of birdsong
Like the rising warmth
You are strong
Like the humidity
You are persistent
Like the later-day rain
You are prepared
Like the air quality (moderate)
You are working on it
Like the scattered showers
You are bursting with energy
Like the chance of thunderstorms
There is thunderous potential in you, too.
Here are three poems I found for you over the weekend giving Interdependence Day:
Thursday, July 7th, 2022
☁️🌂🌧️☂️
Expect overcast skies to reflect in your eyes Thursday & stay prepared for scattered showers that could start early morning. From there, rainfall could shimmy & stray throughout the day, with chances of showers continuing through afternoon & evening. This soggy energy wafts stale through glops of extremely high humidity, so count every slight degree downward as a blessing amid the quagmire. So far, Friday & Saturday look similarly wet & scattered, just mentioning as a heads up when making plans – whether you’re marching & partying to #endmethane & #electrifyDC, or enjoying some needed natural recharging.
Friday, July 8th, 2022
Friday’s warm & humid yet
again asking: how do you keep on in the face of so many forces?
Friends trundle through
like breezes sometimes picking up into gusts
busting down H street,
another metroing from Fort Totten,
another just sits & tweets— bird on the balcony,
but all of us try making it through the net of moisture
before stray afternoon rain catches us,
which, even then, we laugh & call it blessed —
blessed cloudy skies, blessed cool front Saturday dries
over afternoon rain chances, which dissipate in a rush of Sunday.
How do you keep on in the face of so many forces?
Me? I stay grieving, grateful, grounded, and in groups— I get going.
Act Now: Climate-Friendly Buildings for DC act.sierraclub.org/actions/DC?act… The Construction Codes Coordinating Board may seem like an obscure government body, but it is on the frontlines of DC’s fight against climate change. @SierraDC
Monday, July 11th, 2022
Monday’s running on sunny solar-powered pleasant highs in the mid-80s° F. With relatively low humidity and a polite conversational breeze, each gentle stride forward energizes. Beautiful walking, biking, or just stepping out for a breather weather. By late afternoon, electric blue skies will begin to dull into dusk’s clear, slightly cooler-than average dark. Take advantage if you can, especially as humidity looks to rise with possibly wetter weather midweek.
🔧 Green Neighbors DC Toolshare Library
Tuesday, July 12th, 2022
Do Something Tuesday (A Variation on Lucy Larcom’s “Do Something”)
If Tuesday seems hot to you
Carry water to cool it!
Let the humidity slide off you
Summer will renew it.
Skies cloud like your eyes
To that incandescence gather;
You will not forget to cry
"Ah! this swampy weather!"
If afternoon’s a "vale of tears,"
Falling till rainbows stan it;
Breathe the energetic air
Connected from sky to planet.
Of your boldness lend a gleam
Unto folks that stumble;
Show them how atmospheric streams
Blend with active hope in sky’s rumble.
Wednesday, July 13th, 2022
🌤️🌳🚲🌕
Wednesday warms with soft ploddings from a dry westerly breeze. A couple clouds skip through DC’s skies early, planning an afternoon meetup. But with a bright morning, bike breezes slink pleasantly past your cheek in slightly-less humidity; PM commutes sweat through highs near 90°F, so wear something light and loose fitting if you can.
You get no shortage of muses to inspire through the week— energize with folks fighting to disrupt business as usual, with the full buck moon, with the new view of the edge of our universe, or with our new US Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. Here’s my favorite climate poem of hers for you, “Dead Stars.”
Thursday, DC is partly to mostly sunny with average Summer heat & humidity. Mid-80s highs rise to near 90°F by afternoon. A bare breeze keeps humidity high. & while it’s not as definite as the damaging storms that painted cityscape skies earlier this week – there’s still a slight chance the heat cooks up enough moisture to storm later in the day, though not likely.
Otherwise should be good Doing-weather. Snatch some passive or photovoltaic solar & let’s ride: joining the campaign for Climate-Friendly Buildings for DC, helping frontline folks tell FERC to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline, & decarbonizing by designing & building DC’s first community heat pump.
Friday, July 15th, 2022
🌤 Friday keeps an extra layer of humidity for DC to slip into as soon as you take three steps outside. Woven into the heat index, it all holds as consistently gross as it’s been this week into Friday and through the Weekend. Morning Friday may be slightly better. Some winds should help. But all through, it’s giving pressure cooker. Making it so stray showers stay in the forecast, even if not as likely Friday.
⛅ Saturday is cloudier with an increased chance of afternoon showers and thunderstorms.
🌧️ Sunday is so far likely showers and thunderstorms scattered through the day.
Monday, July 18th, 2022
☁️ Monday morning mopes mostly cloudy over DC. 🫁 Air quality is Good-to-Moderate with ozone and PM 2.5. 🌬️ Winds drift breezily at first, later gusting in quick fits of angry energy. ☂️ Come afternoon, they’ve beckoned likely showers and possible thunderstorms to scatter through PM. ⛈️ Even with these precipitation chances, a typical DC Summer heat persists; warming with a gauzy sky and temperatures stretching towards an expected 90°F high.
⚡ While it may not be a sunny day, it’s always a bright day to look into solar:
Tuesday, heat rises. Rising here into midday 90s°F highs to 100°F heat indecies, more broadly scorching across Southern states & the world. As if trying to catch our attention. Winds here in DC drift lightly but with gumption– where DC’s sun stares in a tinge-less muggy air & a couple clouds– also as if trying to catch our attention. It’s unclear if they all expect to catch everyone’s attention in this attention-economy. But — on this attention-earth, we notice & keep going: bear witness & go forth, rise & decarbonize, wear light-fitting layers & keep drinking water, help at-risk neighbors & look out for each other.
Wednesday, July 20th, 2022
HOT SONNET I
Wednesday, heat rises. Sunny & muggy
skies slip through morning, sweat through afternoon,
then stagnate in evening, warm & buggy.
Wear your lightest, loosest fits to keep cool.
Wear your rage at fossil-fueled inaction
& keep going. Resist & drink water,
help each other– don’t recreate extraction.
& know in both the short & the long term:
the heat is rising but so are we, brave,
electrified, & energized hearts alarmed
for all we can do for all we can save.
Connected not only by heat impacts
but also by the futures we beget.
Thursday, July 21st, 2022
Thursday, heat rises. Into heat-emergency threshold 95+°F highs. This'll feel 100+°F heat index-hotter with DC’s dew point & humidity. Dangerous weather to stay out long in– look for signs of heat stroke & exhaustion. Now every heatwave is made longer & stronger due to climate change, we call this what it is: a fossil-fueled heatwave. Drink water, stay cool, & use this map to find a DC cooling center or pool.
For a little joy: I’ve found too many sweaty It’s Getting Hot in Here Summer climate playlists when all I want in this weather are chill vibes. So, here’s a pop/indie mix to stay cool facing rising heat with reminders of community cooling & climate solutions: Cooling Centers for Summers
Friday, July 22, 2022
Heat rises Friday. Soaring Saturday, then higher Sunday. Dangerous heat indexes drive ambient warming several degrees hotter, especially where concrete & asphalt-dominate. In prolonged warmth, stay mindful of stale near-80°F nighttime lows, which can sneak another dangerous impact as well as signal of this fossil-fueled flux. Good to-dos if you can: rest & take care of your body & mind, research & advocate for strong DC heat equity policy, check on neighbors & fam, leverage dawn & dusk, & cool at pools or cooling centers.
I love the chorus of folks sharing advice on keeping cool– how to care is to cool. How it’s cool to care. May just be the coolest thing to help save the world.
Monday, July 25th, 2022
A couple clouds gather in a corner of sky Monday, chalking up what's otherwise a partly sunny morning. This settles ground-level as a moderate dawn humidity jumping off the overnight heat weekend left behind. From there, temperatures leap atop already hot conditions, leap through piles of carbon heat, then leap on rising humidity into mid-to-upper 90s°F (5-10°F hotter heat indexes) by afternoon. The heat will combine with a front producing possible scattered showers & thunderstorms after 2PM.
Week-ahead, energy could cut through heat and help produce thunderstorms, like sharp and cloudy jewels. Whereas long-term, heat is rising until we stop using fossil fuels.
Tuesday, July 26th, 2022
☁️🌧️☂️⛈️🌇 The frontal force from Monday chills for a bit to DC’s south, hanging long enough to lower temps & rile up wet possibilities. Humidity stays high, which may produce a stray shower early. But with insistent winds & shy sun, moist cloudy skies warp more shower & thunderstorm chances into afternoon.
Air quality looks to improve after a spike of moderate, mainly PM2.5– which had stagnated in extreme heat index air pollution multiplier effects. As if we needed another reason to stop extracting fossil fuels & start turning renewable futures.
Wednesday, July 27th, 2022
Clouds swirl Wednesday morning in overcast pools of moist hues. Expect it hotter than yesterday, with billowing cloud-cover buoying temps into afternoon highs in the high-80s°F. Strengthened by the humidity, already moderately high at a silver dawn, rising.
Forces for a just climate future swirl with Wednesday as well, their own source of light— also cutting bright-through patches of white & gray:🌡️ Biden administration launched Heat.Gov to share maps, data, & info to communities facing extreme heat. 📣 Congressional staffers arrested during protest over climate change policy stalemate. ⚾ This Thursday is the congressional baseball game direct action (forecast peeps energetic ⛈️ weather), “Now or Never.”