D.C.-area weather forecast: Sunny and comfy today; shower chances return midweek

Seldom does so drastic a regime change occur in the realm of weather as in D.C. between August and July. Friday and especially Saturday, the first days of the new month seemed blissfully different from the steamy, sweltering, sultry month that came before.

The design committee for Saturday, in particular, appeared to find a way to deport and decertify almost every objectionable aspect of summer. Saturday seemed a rare day that embraced all the best of Washington’s sunshine season, warm and comfortable rather than hot and miserable.

Still grateful for the departure of blazing July, the nation’s capital seemed to enjoy Saturday all the more by contrasting it with what was so recently endured.

Endure seemed not a word to apply to Saturday’s conditions, except of course to wish that they might somehow last long and avoid replacement by the sultry steaminess that a summer day in the city so readily provides.

The high temperature in the city was a more-than-bearable, and actually quite pleasant 82 degrees. It was seven below the normal high for Aug. 2 in the District.