Oh joy - all the heat and humidity, but with more mosquitos and tornados. Nice. And in fact, I’ve heard the southern-effciency-northern-charm line applied to St. Louis, too.
Let’s face it, the only way we’d get a city with a decent climate in all seasons is if we moved the capital to the Pacific coast. I’d prefer the Northwest - too much sunlight rots the brain, I think.
Waitaminnit, that might actually be a step up for our nation’s leaders…San Diego, DC?
You just have to look in the US Constitution to see that it specifies Congress will meet on the first Monday in December unless specified otherwise by law. This was changed by the 20th Amendment in 1933 to be the 3rd of January.
The reason for this was not because of the DC weather (DC hadn’t been chosen yet when they wrote the Constitution) but rather that many Congressmen were expected to be farmers or plantation owners. Winter is the slack season for them.