Construction worker Olatunji Ogunfowokan takes a break to drink a bottle of water while working on a construction site in northwest D.C. Temperatures reached 90 degrees in the city on Thursday. (Photo: Graeme Jennings/Examiner) | Graeme Jennings
Residents and tourists in the Washington area sweated through the region’s first heat wave of the summer Thursday, as the thermostat reached a high of 93 degrees and the sunny weather brought people out to the city in droves.