“It’s coming, it’s coming! Run for your lives!” I screamed, running through the streets for shelter as the first drops splashed onto the Georgetown pavement. “RAINPOCALYPSE IS HERE!!!”

Okay, not really, but the week’s heat is broken today by a passing cold front, which brings with it scattered thunderstorms and rainshowers. You’ll want an umbrella starting this afternoon. Watch the rain pass through with NWS Northeast Radar, and if you’re in a windowless cubicle/office, take a gander outside with this NPS webcam view of DC.

This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs

Paulo Ordoveza

Roving Asian mendicant, can occasionally be seen wandering the streets of downtown Washington, muttering unintelligible gibberish to passers-by while pushing a “bag lady” shopping cart full of old blankets, American flags, soda cans, and healthy secondhand snacks from organic food shop dumpsters. Used to live in a cardboard box at 16th and K but the rent was too expensive.