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Capital Weather Gang Archive: Wx and the City
Eaten by Aedes: The buzz on summer mosquitoes
Let's face it. Mosquitoes in the DC area have been voracious this summer. Their prolific populations have left us grabbing for the nearest can of DEET. Is it the heat? Severe thunderstorms? Drought? How have we coped ...or have we?
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Ann Posegate
| August 25, 2010; 11:00 AM ET |
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What do you like about summer heat?
The D.C. area has already experienced its fair share of summer conditions ... and it's only the first week of July. We've heard -- and said -- plenty of complaints about the heat and humidity: sweaty work clothes, lack of energy, moldy basements. Yet, some residents actually seem to like the heat. Are you one of them?
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Ann Posegate
| July 7, 2010; 10:45 AM ET |
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How hot was it?
Now that our first official heat wave of 2010 is over, the experience begs the question: How hot was it?
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Ann Posegate
| June 30, 2010; 1:30 PM ET |
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Is summer weather prime for crime?
Wx and the City * Hot stuff back for weekend: Full Forecast | Nats-Orioles weather * * Yesterday's record highs | Heat chat transcript | Crime Scene blog * Most of us remember the silence on the streets of D.C. and Baltimore during Snowmageddon. Few walked. Few drove. Few ventured...
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Ann Posegate
| June 25, 2010; 11:00 AM ET |
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Kids' solutions to air pollution
When it comes to inspiring solutions to air pollution, we adults could learn a thing or two from kids. Clean Air Partners, a regional nonprofit partnership that advocates and educates for cleaner air in the D.C.-Baltimore area, recently announced the winners of its annual student poster contest. According to Rebecca Davis, education program manager for the partnership, "the purpose of the poster contest was to educate students about the solution to air pollution and climate change by integrating science and art," in addition to celebrating the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.
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Ann Posegate
| May 7, 2010; 11:00 AM ET |
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The pollen, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The single biggest complaint I've heard about this week's weather is neither the above-normal heat, nor the crowds of tourists ... It's allergies. The sudden burst of warmth and sun combined with the lack of rainfall over the past several days have sent trees that were snow-bound just weeks ago into a reproduction frenzy. Tree pollen has been the main culprit.
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Ann Posegate
| April 8, 2010; 11:00 AM ET |
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