Hello my March Mavens, I’m here still writing weather reports for Currently’s Washington, DC newsletter. Let’s go!
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Marvelous March Moments Across Washington, DC
Tuesday, March 1st, 2022
Hello and blessed meteorological Spring one and all. Tuesday’s partly sunny and warmer with eventual highs near 60°F. Beginning the day, dawn streams through 40s°F flipping their hair in South southwest wind 5-11mph gusting up to 21mph. Afternoon winds calm in warmth.
If you don’t take the week’s warm-up as elaborate performance art paralleling unchecked global warming, Tuesday will be great. Unequivocally. Gorgeous especially for afternoon/evening commutes; giving glorious bike rides, delightful bus-stop waits, and the perfect moment’s reprieve, if you can, to step outside. To breathe. To feel the breeze. To follow where it connects. To center: everything matters.
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022
Wednesday warms more, with a mostly sunny sky and high near 63°F— which I appreciate. I’m grateful for another dashing DC day to bike past budding daffodils; thankful too, for the later couple clouds over afternoon’s dog walk.
More than Spring’s 6 PM sunsets or Wednesday’s glow, I’m grateful for you. Thank you for being a part. Of the circles of circles of experts, advocates, and activists taking on an Atlas of Suffering and trying to map an Almanac of Thriving still— for all we can save. Thank you community of Cassandras: caring and concerned coalition growing with advances. Thank you for your fight and your love, against a fossil-fueled future, and for a world powered by sun.
Thursday, March 3rd 2022
🚴✅
Spring winds sling over Washington Thursday
Steady 5-15, gusting up to 20 miles per hour
But change is never breezy, even in phases
In waves of winds of changing power
🚌✅
Yet fluid rays reach through
Glowing bluish grayish skies
Spearing through sky Thursday
Sun extends into your eyes
🚇☑
I love the look you give me
Reflecting the world’s gaze
Like the courage you’re bringing
Together, with wind and sun we’ll change.
⛅🌬️
Friday, March 4th 2022
DC’s first week of this year’s Spring ends capped in golden sunny Friday skies and tinged with hushed chilly air. Bright horizons will make it feel fine as long as you haven’t hidden your layers too far back in the closet yet. Temperature highs reach near 45°F late afternoon with at least the grace of sunlight granted until 6 PM sunset.
Your weekend warms enough to let off a layer, with highs 60s-70s°F: the cloudy Saturday and chance of showers Sunday influenced by ripples of crisscrossing atmospheric energy, echoes of both a Central Plains-sited storm system, and a surge of warm air over the Great Lakes.
Monday, March 7th 2022
🌂🌬️☁️🌡️🌧️☔︎
🚲☑ 🚌☑ 🚇☑
Monday says, get a new structure —
With near record high (80°F 😳) temperatures,
Stay rain-ready (which should help wash out the pollen)
For a cloudy Monday with possible periodic falling
Showers strung to strong gusting winds through the week
So keep your slicker close ‘case Monday’s gloss streaks
As we get through getting along spring elements with warmth, heartily
Tugging thick clouds now-wards towards tomorrow’s soft harmony
Filled with fossil-free futures borne of extraction-free cultures —
Monday says, get a new structure.
Tuesday, March 8th, 2022
⛅☁️🐦🌱🐤☁️
Tuesday starts partly cloudy with a steady 10mph breeze. A wet compost-clad scent clings to the air. Morning 40s°F get ushered upward by a lone piper at dawn, who grows a cadre of cardinals, all thrilled to trill together again; especially now— a Spring tune.
🚲✅ 🚌✅ 🚇☑
It’s like how you can almost trace the wide-rounded cloud edges opening smiles above. Shaping, shifting, bumping into one another while congregating and reconstituting over Tuesday. Bringing possible late-night rain. In the folds of overlap, the in-between twill, within blurred birdsong and huey skyforms, boundless potential shines still.
Wednesday, March 9th, 2022
Wednesday— be ready for morning-to-midday rain. And in temperatures this low, mid-30s-40°F, maybe even a slushy precip mix. While that’s not likely, some just-open crocuses are waiting ready to catch whatever this is, tipping their petaled hats in anticipatory acknowledgment. The rainfall gives their delicate purple-white gradients a glassy glow like violet paint smears on soil.
For us, equipping rain gear and cold layers with an umbrella will aid in the early commute or breather outside. By afternoon-evening, rain should end, with clouds continuing to hang over DC, chilling.
Thursday, March 10th 2022
Thursday conforms to your expectations of Spring in DC — kinda cool with slight warmth threaded-through, high near low-50s°F, with a light breeze scooting under partly cloudy skies. ⛅🐦🚲✅ 🚌✅ 🚇☑
What’s the catch? Glad you asked. From my own eye-burning experience and seeing other allergy evidence emerge, our area is encountering an increase of tree pollen. Call it— “off the barks,” at moderate-to-high levels. WTOP has a good rundown here with tips on getting through: “Warmer temperatures and a blast of tree pollen: Spring allergy season arrives in DC region.” What helps?
- Covering-up when out
- Showering at night
- (From me) creating a fossil-free future
Friday, March 11th 2022
Friday fills you with a feeling
sunny horizon line 50s, highs near 60s°F
city light spreads a Spring shifting,
pollen popping, buds bopping, life teeming,
climate changing, season rearranging,
bikes riding, metro concerning, birds singing,
into a weekend with a different sound ringing
Saturday fills you with another feeling
strong frigid wind gusts yearning
with mixed rain showers and possible flurrying
all while fueled forms are churning
not only from fossil burning
but also from systems of extraction
so heed every call for landback action
Sunday fills you with yet another feeling
cold still, sunny though
the filling feeling of fighting
for home.
Monday, March 14th 2022
☀️ From your windowsill, Monday’s wafting beautiful sunny skies, slow-baked warmth, and fruitful Spring-filled scents. Go try a bite. Where a crust of pressure rises early off the coast, dawn leaves a flaky braid of dry air circling radiant. And with delicious daylight saved, Afternoon now seems brighter: 50s-60°F highs for your breather outside, your bike ride, your commute vivified, or your stolen glance skyward. 🚴✅🚌✅🚇☑ Tree pollen is medium-high. 🌱🌳
🥧 A Pi Day Prayer: May we fight the fossil-fueled fingers in every pie together with Fierceness and Abundance. For the most affected people and places. Sharing every slice.
Tuesday, March 15th 2022
Tuesday is in DC and has met with Spring
on their bike round Rock Creek in the chillier morning
in all their magnificent melting birdsong being,
bringing the seasoning— Sun early and wide, smiling
(and a medium-high pollen allergy warning)
quickly warming to you, inside/outside feeling abloom,
Afternoon high-60s°F highs, with the risen
why-not-be-kind ambition, like a different global warmth
rising with you and I joining youth organizing
against even more warming, even more forgotten, even more
pollen; and for ever more beautiful Tuesday mostly
clear evenings together again, sharing ever more we have in common.
Wednesday, March 16th 2022
BATTLE OF THE BIRDSONG
🐦🌞
WEDNESDAY
Up above, it’s going down
in canopies, high over the chicanery
The Battle begins @ Dawn
and if need-be, we’ll go all day long
even with gorgeous weather for soaring
faster than folks on bikes exploring, especially
as we race to get the flock back together, mostly sunny
weather, whether or not here we come to rock and tweet
and chirp and squeak, trilling every pitch strong and sweet
throwing birdsong down from groups FEATURING:
The Song Sparrow Slackers, The Cardinal Heartbreakers
The Square Robins, The Unhappy As Horned Larks + MORE!
🚴✅🚌✅🚇✅
Don’t miss DC’s feathered festival of seasonal musicians,
just pause on your commute or step outside— and listen.
Thursday, March 17th 2022
🌧️☂️🌈
There’s something better than gold
you get for getting through Thursday
slow going upper level low pressure
weather giving chance— in showers
within the dance of sun rays on rain
for keeping on through cloudy grays
slipping and shimmering off slickers
rainbow beams bounce and drip on
greener planters and parks, Spring
drops in fits and starts until it shifts
but with luck for all, and the basics:
sun, water, wind— renewable gates
like under rainbows under rainbows
follow any many greener way to go
— through the way we better hold,
there’s something better than gold.
Friday, March 18th, 2022
⛅☀️🌱🌸🐦
Friday— gorgeous:
Biking, walking, busing, metro-ing, hiking, helping, breathing, organizing, singing, and being. All with that warm flourishing feeling; filled with the gilded grace of flecked sun rays like seeing old friends again. Blossoms sprout, critters come out, The Pollening distributes, and sun shines through early clouds and dew.
Saturday— continues:
gorgeous gardening partly cloudy skies, even warmer highs near 77°F with mild winds, possible gusting, and overnight chance of showers.
Sunday— refreshes:
should be clearer and cooler, 50s-60s°F —but getting back to Friday? Fridays for Future.
Join us on March 25th at 2:00pm at the White House to demand climate reparations and justice! Learn more and RSVP at fffutu.re/DCmarch25 #peoplenotprofit #globalclimatestrike
Monday, March 21st, 2022
☀️
Past Spring’s Equinox
Monday’s sunny and running
tidal basin arc
🏃
threads through the week warm
chill at the fringes layered
waning moon of worms
🌸
across a city between
two tidal rivers
🌅
skies glowing awesome
seasonal soundscape abloom
like lyric haiku
🚴
awakening World
breezing winds unfurling how:
climate action now.
🌱
From my weekend reads— good shares across DC:
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
☀️
Tuesday basks in you
astronomical as Spring
sunlight gets to it
🚴
teeming and teasing
squirrels and birds from hollows
waking with blossoms
🐿️
in your puffy white
pink streaks welcome a peak week
beckoning early
🌸
in light winds and warmth
forecasted bloom in action
on climate justice
🌱
now’s your turn to shine
to reflect a better way
bask-back in Tuesday
🌎
(looking ahead now—
Wed-Thur rain chance, then comes sun:
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022
☁️
Wednesday, you got this
shower chances through the day
be ready for rain
🌧️
morning may be light
afternoon may be steady
have your rain gear near
☂️
don’t hold on too tight
trees let go their own blossoms
just-bloomed, too— and free
🌸
falling in East winds
weighted down by water
wet dance of petals
💧
overnight showers
continue to the beat of
rumbling thunder.
Thursday, March 24th, 2022
🌧️
Medium-to-high
chance rain showers continue:
umbrellas Thursday
☂️
the same system
that twisted storms in Texas
now turns showers here
🌎
Thursday's a reminder:
drink water regularly
breathe water world
💧
cycling between rains
walking the dog in puddles
overcast clouds drip
📣
drop petals, rise warmth—
until a late cold front comes
Friday, March 25th 2022
🌱
Friday's giving Spring
partly cloudy marching skies
📣
active hope’s budding
now and every single day
so blow winds of change
🍃
hold on to your signs
and hold on to each other
community blooms
🌸
afternoon-highs wear
light-layer 50s-60s
degrees fahrenheit
🌎
cast demands in short shadows:
✊
reparations and
decarbonization NOW
“our house is on fire”
🔥
let’s follow the youth
#FridaysForFuture
🗣️
(weekend’s chill shifts vibes
DC uplifts in cool gusts—
change still in the air.)
☁️
Washington, DC Fridays For Future #PeopleNotProfit March 2022 Global Climate Strike Coverage
Monday, March 28th, 2022
🍃 Monday's brisk chill holds-over Weekend cold with frigid temps and wintry gusts— the windchilling thrust of it all calls for layered attempts 🧥🧣 of cover when out. ☀️Sun hangs airily like a soft sigh, while mostly bright blue skies shout.
Early week’s brrrrrrrringing DC a large upper level trough of low pressure. Mid-week’s bringing a warm-front that could shift conditions warmer and wetter.
From my weekend reads— good shares across DC:
Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
☀️🧥🧣🚲
Tuesday starts with a shiver: they’ve seen the news and still—
they’re mildly cold, mildly annoyed, seemingly, slow-to-react
to climate signal impacts, instead both breezy and calmer
than yesterday, still, sun-shines on— because what else do you do
when you learn an ice shelf larger than DC disintegrated into sea
after fossil-fueled Antarctic heat extremes? You shine rage into action,
brightening not only what you need to do but also what gets more through,
raising alarms arm and arm, affirmed in dawn’s chanting birdsong,
by flap of blue-jay sky, and reach of trees haloed in blossoming flowers:
to strive in this city of power— for The People to have The Power.
Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
⛅🐦🚴♀️🚇🌸
Wednesday is a fresh deal, just for you—
wrapped in coldish early clouds, the blue
bird singing the warming Day dawning
into afternoon's ever warmer yawning
says, the deal is this: I'll trade you a
tune for some Spring, a warmth of
reaching petals awakening things
like lighter layers into near 60°F
Spring says, the deal is thus:
turning happens all at once
as the winds of change go
Wednesday winds blow
you just gotta go with
growth amid abloom
anew anointed in
each day's flux
as skies say,
the deal is
dusk.
Thursday, March 31st, 2022
🌧️
Thursday’s singing a warmer and wetter tune in the trees. While the warm-up back to 70°F highs is nice, be ready early for rain showers to drip down during your morning commute. Later, thunderstorms drop with gusty force scattering through evening commutes.
⛈️
If streaking rain plops and thundering city sounds aren’t enough, here’s a fun 42-min playlist for you — DC Spring Climate Vibes (Currently). Stays mostly on the Pop-side with that diverse Spring ‘22 DC weather vibe spread mix-wide.
— Adam Powers
About Fridays For Future March 2022 Global Climate Strike: #PeopleNotProfit
The catastrophic climate scenario that we are living in is the result of centuries of exploitation and oppression through colonialism, extractivism and capitalism, an essentially flawed socio-economic model which urgently needs to be replaced.
A system where rich nations are responsible for 92% of global emissions, and the richest 1% of the world population are responsible for double the pollution produced by the poorest 50%.
Guided by historical struggles and lived experiences, led by the most affected people and areas (MAPA), we are demanding climate reparations.