You might have thought there’s nothing going on in Washington, D.C., besides President Trump and the freshman squad facing off over his tweets, which even some in the GOP are calling racist (not that it’s winning them any fans on the Left).
However, political twitter is full of people griping about how hot it is in D.C. today, and Ryan Maue, the meteorologist whose opinion we’ll give more credence than the person with the journalism degree and five-and-a-half years on the climate beat, says it could reach 100 degrees by the end of the week, and it’s only Monday.
Average high temperatures for the next 5 days will be much above normal across much of Eastern U.S. with temperatures well into the 90s for > 250 million Americans.
Summertime!
Map: 5-day avg deviation from normal ECMWF high temperatures pic.twitter.com/UDrLLheQ5X
— Ryan (@RyanMaue) July 15, 2019
Here are the actual high temperatures from the model … not the anomalies.
94°F is the average of next 5 days in Washington D.C.
upper-90s in Charlotte
EPS mean (highs) pic.twitter.com/7e8NMDCDvZ
— Ryan (@RyanMaue) July 15, 2019
Might be chance at 100°F in Washington D.C. this weekend.
The ensemble distribution is smoking hot.
Normal temperature for mid-July is 90°F anyways. pic.twitter.com/GLI6Sk2Kmh
— Ryan (@RyanMaue) July 15, 2019
So expect a lot of people in the nation’s capital to be running the air conditioning full-blast this week, despite the fact that it’s both sexist and a tool of the capitalist oppressor who has his white male finger on the thermostat.
Air-conditioning is unhealthy, bad, miserable, and sexist. I can’t explain how many times I’ve gotten sick over the summer b/c of overzealous AC in offices. #BanAC https://t.co/QPME4lMTVS
— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) July 7, 2019
Richard Harambe was good enough to put the whole mess into a graphic to explain it all:
— Dr. Richard Harambe (@Richard_Harambe) July 10, 2019
Oppressive heat and humidity, the most extreme this year, may hit Washington late this week: https://t.co/eNAbvCgzH7
— Capital Weather Gang (@capitalweather) July 15, 2019
Yeah, but air conditioning is sexist. https://t.co/dd0t35Z7e7
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) July 15, 2019
Remember to keep those offices hot because A/C is violence against women
— Hercules Rockefeller (@OttoWeinert) July 15, 2019
Probably the most oppression anyone in Washington has ever felt
— Kevun Bixensatin-Gill (@SnowflakeTakes) July 15, 2019
So heat is oppressive and A/C is sexist.
RUN WOMEN RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
— ~~~~^~~~~~o/ (@Y4LYFE) July 15, 2019
Expect more hot takes about climate change being responsible all this week.
Related:
'Give it a rest, Karl': Jacobin's socialist take on air conditioning might indeed prove that 'capitalism has gone too far' https://t.co/H2JTYnsmRT
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 10, 2019
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