Saturday's claim to sultriness rested on its humidity
In the District, the official high temperature obviously was adequate to qualify as summer. The mercury reached 92 degrees. Perhaps not an automatic symbol of thermal suffering, but it was two degrees above the normal (or average) high for July 26, which is 90.
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