It may be May and merry, but it was gray and damp, too

It could be called mist, and it could be described as drizzle, but it seemed incessant and persistent in D.C. on Friday, a gray day of unsmiling clouds, perhaps redeemed from dreariness only by its existence as a day in springtime and May.

Washington, according to the official readings, spent most of the soggy and overcast afternoon in a cool upper 50 degree range. It was about 15 degrees below the average D.C. high of 75 degrees for the 10th of May. The upper 50s is about average for March, not May.