Cool and gray, Friday seemed nothing like Washington in August
August began in D.C. on Friday on a day that seemed to lack much similarity to the month or the season, a day that defied conventional Washington weather wisdom, a day with almost no trace of the summertime trials and torments that Washington had so recently been enduring.
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