A hot Sunday in Washington, D.C., before air-conditioning.
All three photos of Ellipse Park by Marjory Collins, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The mean daytime temperature that month was 86° — the high was 98°; the low was 78°. The daily high for humidity ranged from 76% to 100%.
In the dog days of summer . . .
The wind lifts up my life
And sets it some distance from where it was.— Meena Alexander, from “Dog Days of Summer“
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