Friday in D.C. was for finding the sun amid clouds

Friday was a dry day. For the first time this week and the first time this month, it did not rain in Washington. But the sky nevertheless seemed well stocked with the atmospheric ingredients for rain, with dark and brooding clouds, and the emphatic breeziness that often accompanies a spring storm. That seemed especially significant on Friday. For Friday was only three days until the long-awaited eclipse, and if anything can prevent this free and wondrous natural phenomenon from being freely seen and wondered at, it is clouds. So the...