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Old 07-19-2011, 01:41 PM
 
Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
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Always notice on days like today that the car's external air temp thermometer drops about 5 degrees by the time I get to Mount Vernon after leaving Old Town via the GW Parkway. Not sure if it's just more trees and less concrete, wind currents off the Potomac, or what, but the Lees and Washingtons seemed to have picked a good spot to be in the days of no A/C.
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Old 07-19-2011, 01:51 PM
 
Location: Orange Hunt Estates, W. Springfield
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Definitely the concrete and asphalt affect vs lawns and trees. Heck, I notice the same temperature drop walking from my front yard with a blacktop driveway and neighborhood street too hot to walk on in bare feet to the heavily shaded rear yard backing to a wooded area.
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Old 07-19-2011, 02:32 PM
 
Location: South South Jersey
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This makes me think of a completely unrelated phenomenon that nonetheless does involve Alexandria - the two summers we lived in Huntington, where we were pretty close to the Potomac, I don't recall ever seeing that creepy presumably-air-pollution-related haze in our most common weekend haunts near our home (basically, the stretch of Rt. 1 between Huntington and Arlington, + Old Town). I've seen it quite a few times this summer out in the Fairfax area, and I remember seeing it (especially while sitting in traffic jams on Rt. 1/Baltimore Ave.) in College Park (MD) the two summers we lived there. Complete coincidence?
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