On day after solstice, summer showed its good side

It was the first day after the solstice but that did not require all of the scorch, sizzle and swelter of summer to be immediately and mercilessly visited upon Washington on Saturday, and they weren't.
The day's official high temperature failed even to touch 90 degrees. It was however, close, at 89.

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