HAPPENING NOW: Some smoke creeps back in from the north late morning into afternoon, but it won't be nearly as thick this time. Decreasing clouds this morning, then mostly sunny and less humid with some haze and highs in the 80s.
The rainbow marked the end of the heat wave, the end of today's storm threat, and the clearing of much of the wildfire smoke.
With 42 hours of smoke in DC and air quality peaking at code purple or worse, this event rivaled — and in some ways exceeded — the historic smoke outbreaks of 2023.
The House passed the Sunshine Protection Act on Tuesday. Is this the time daylight saving time becomes permanent year-round?
Meteorologists are warning that the missing data may be making severe weather forecasts less reliable. The agency in charge of the launches maintains that the lack of balloon data hasn’t degraded forecasts.
A predawn SpaceX Falcon 9 launch created a glowing, jellyfish-like plume that was visible across the DC region under clear skies.
A remarkable 250-year reconstruction of July 4 temperatures reveals just how much America's Independence Day has warmed since 1776.
If you want to know how humid it will feel outside, pay attention to the dew point — not the relative humidity.
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