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Friday in D.C. seemed a day of many obvious meteorological merits: a day to savor spring, recognize its virtues and sing its praises before continuing on the path to summer.

Thursday had been a day of record-tying 91 degree heat, which may have seemed troubling. It may have suggested that even with weeks to go until June and the solstice, summer was showing worrisome impatience.

So Friday, splendid as were its conditions, also seemed to assume the task of offering climatic reassurance. In Washington, it asserted that spring remains.

Springtime temperatures in the salubrious seventies along with humidity that was far more than tolerable, seemed both enjoyable on their own and capable of allaying fears of premature scorch.

With the notable and significant exception of allergy sufferers, such days as warm, dry Friday, seemingly suffused with atmospheric good will, seemed the sort to inspire meteorological daydreams.

Such days seem especially wished for and desirable in the chill darkness of midwinter, or the sweat-soaked miseries of midsummer.

In the city, the high temperature of 76 degrees was only 2 degrees above average.

As it turned out, that mid-70s reading was recorded on a day when it appeared that Washington had reached its full vernal output of foliage.

Every twig, every tree branch, bush and shrub seemed to take part in a vibrant, swelling display of deep-green leaves.

It seemed almost idyllic, consistent with a freshness in Friday’s air that seemed especially welcome in an urban environment, and may have owed much to the day’s constant easterly breezes.

However, taking justifiable pleasure in so much about Friday weather need not prevent a description of the day’s possible deviations from perfection.

It was not all blue skies and sunshine in the nation’s capital Friday. Much as those might have been expected to accompany the fine weather Washington enjoyed, the skies were often hazy, milky or even clouded.

On the other hand, it was early May. The amount of daylight continues to grow and, on Friday, approached 14 hours.

Three years' study of physics at the University of California at Berkeley

Martin Weil is a longtime reporter at The Washington Post.

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