Finally!

DC Weather

I have been fighting a losing battle with the local temperature and humidity since I arrived here in August-- over-heated for four months now. Two months ago the locals started wearing coats over their business attire, then scarfs and hats, and recently parkas (what will January bring?).

Today was the big breakthrough for me--no sweat walking outside, not to the next building, not to the Metro stop. No sweat! I did not feel cold; just no sweat. So I can put a datum in my personal lab notebook: 33 deg F, slight breeze, brilliant sunshine, wearing just "proper business attire yields no sweat."

It looks like my fellow prairie dogs in the cube farm will have to wait until January to see if I have a jacket. So now the office is the only place I still sweat. I don't have a thermometer here (I do miss the lab for all sorts of paraphanelia useful in non-lab applications, such as thermometers, balances, vacuum lines, ice, even cold-boxes to winterize your hosta), but it must be 80 degrees. Mind you, I have no gripe with the internal temp in the warm months, it's usually very pleasant, maybe in the high 60s/low 70s, and the rest of the inmates wear sweaters and scarves.