The Washington Post-Second day of spring turned out extremely wet
March 3, 2024 2 min 349 words
这篇报道生动地描绘了首都周六的雨水洗礼，强调了春天的湿润归来。作者通过描述各种降水形式，形象生动地描绘了雨水的丰富多样性，以及它对城市景观的影响。文章以轻松幽默的语调，点明了这一年的湿度新高，将春天的"第二次机会"定义为极具湿度的一天。他用细腻的笔触描绘了雨水如何在城市上空形成一层灰色的帷幕，将远处的景物隐匿，使白昼变得昏暗。报道也提到了气象学上的观点，指出虽然春天已经开始，但天空的灰暗和大雨依然是主题。对于喜欢气象的读者而言，这篇报道以一种幽默的方式呈现了当天的天气状况，同时也引入了一些在春天即将到来的迹象，如樱花的绽放，使整篇报道更加生动有趣。
2024-03-02T23:16:01.233Z
Spring, as some would describe it, received a second chance to declare itself in the capital Saturday and proved to be extremely wet. It was the rainiest day here since mid-February.
In its daily summary of conditions in Washington, the National Weather Service seemed to call the roll of almost all the ways of being wet. Fog, light rain, rain and heavy rain were all in attendance.
The result was one of this young year’s damper days. It provided hours of drops and droplets, draping a gray curtain across the blurred landscape.
As it shielded distant objects from view and dimmed the light of day, the falling rain facilitated Saturday morning somnolence.
It amounted to an official 0.73 inches as of 4 p.m. That was the most here since the 0.74 inches on Feb. 13. It was third wettest since Jan. 9.
When added to Friday night’s officially recorded 0.04 inches, the Saturday figure made it possible to call March a moist month. So far.
And a gray one. Friday had many gray hours, but on Saturday it seemed that gray hours were Washington’s only hours.
Close observation of the sky showed a few patches of blue here and there. Bright and welcome as they may have been, they seemed nothing more than small holes poked in a broad gray blanket.
In assigning Saturday to its proper season, spring seemed a possibility.
For meteorologists, the three months of spring began on March 1.
In addition, Saturday was warmer than Friday, a possible sign of thermal progress. Friday’s official high temperature was 54. Just before 5 p.m. on Saturday, the temperature had reached 55.
Meanwhile at the Tidal Basin, the process of blooming of Washington’s famed cherry blossom trees has started, according to the National Park Service.
“And we’re off!” the National Mall division of the Park Service posted Saturday on the social media site X. “Small green buds are appearing.” That’s the first of six stages on the way to peak bloom, the tweet said. NPS expects peak bloom from March 23 to March 26.