An Appreciation of the Capital Weather Gang

The WaPo weather team's Twitter operation is a little piece of D.C.-area localism.

I first heard of the Capital Weather Gang, the Washington Post’s weather division, in one of my early intro-to-public-policy classes at University of Maryland, shortly after I moved down to College Park to start grad school. My professor mentioned it in passing, but clearly he was quite familiar with it; as the remnants of a hurricane were approaching t…