Doom - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Mon, 26 Apr 2021 16:35:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Doom - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 Are You Terrified of the Pink Moon, This Year’s First Supermoon? No? Why Not??? https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/04/26/are-you-terrified-of-the-pink-moon-this-years-first-supermoon-no-why-not/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=are-you-terrified-of-the-pink-moon-this-years-first-supermoon-no-why-not Mon, 26 Apr 2021 16:35:17 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1507549 Monday night’s full moon is 2021’s first “supermoon,” a term that migrated from astrology to astronomy and is an excellent way to describe the points, twice each year, when the moon is full and at perigree, meaning it’s closest to Earth and terrifyingly large. While scientists have pushed back against claims that supermoons occasion natural disasters—”The […]

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Are DC’s Beloved Cherry Blossoms Doomed? https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/03/14/the-cherry-blossoms-are-doomed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-cherry-blossoms-are-doomed Tue, 14 Mar 2017 13:19:20 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=219272 A late-winter cold wave, combined with a Nor’easter storm that hit Washington Monday night, has cherry-blossom watchers bracing for the first possible spring during which DC’s celebrated crop of Japanese cherry trees fails to reach peak bloom. But even if the trees manage to endure snow, ice, and a week of frigid air, they face a more perilous […]

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