If you like perfect weather, get outside as much as possible today and tomorrow.
Sunday won’t be bad, either, but it will kick off a mini September heat wave.
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A gorgeous end to the workweek today is expected to give way to clouds tomorrow and rain on Sunday.
Nonetheless, high temperatures in the lower 80s to mid 70s should make much of the weekend perfectly pleasant.
The Labor Day weekend is here so let’s get right to it.
For what’s supposed to be a pretty slow pre-holiday week, this week actually turned out to be quite busy, readership-wise. Here are the most-read stories since Sunday:
The once-hot real estate market in Northern Virginia is cooling as interest rates rise.
The median home sale price dipped slightly in July. While Arlington’s stats did not include a price drop — prices here have held up better than the outer suburbs — the number of home sales dropped.
We’re calling it a week a touch early today, while most of you have already started your weekend, so we can better prep for next week.
While this month has been pretty slow overall, the week that will usher in the start of September promises to be a bit busier, with the start of school, some local business-related scoops, and other stories that are already in planning.
A decade ago, we asked readers where they were from, originally.
The poll found that only 11% of readers were from Arlington and only 20% from elsewhere in the D.C. area. Combined, that’s less than the just over 35% who said they were originally from the “north.”
After a pretty nice couple of days, temperatures in the 90s are back — and sticking around for awhile.
That’s not great news if you’ve been waiting for cooler weather as fall approaches, so you can better enjoy your outdoor fitness routine.
Nearly half of remote and hybrid government workers say their team performance has improved during the course of the pandemic.
That’s according to new research from Crystal City-based consulting firm Eagle Hill Consulting.
This week was slow at times, news-wise, but next week appears to be shaping up to be more active.
Stay tuned for reporting on a number of important local topics. Oh, and we’ll also have polls, to keep readers engaged through end-of-summer summer vacations and back-to-school preps.
This week, Mike Mount is tackling the topic of recently-created neighborhood names.
Mike’s new cartoon pokes fun at modern place name inventions, perhaps given recent media attention for National Landing — the nearly four-year-old collective term for Crystal City, Pentagon City and Potomac Yard — and its self-appointed “NaLa” nickname.
Cut-through traffic may not make many headlines here in Arlington, but it has been a big topic of conversation in our neighbor to the south.
Alexandria communities, particularly those along Duke Street, have long complained about drivers trying to beat the traffic on the main road by taking neighborhood streets. The city has even implemented a pilot program intended to cut down on cut-through traffic, which some residents say is made worse by navigation apps steering people around traffic congestion.
After a steamy stretch, Mother Nature is rewarding us with a pair of new-perfect days.
We hope you are able to get out there and enjoy the weather tonight and tomorrow. In the meantime, if you’re looking for something to read, the past week’s most-read ARLnow articles are below.