Summer Streets Forecast: Sunny and Beautiful

Looks like it’s going to be gorgeous out for the second Summer Streets installment of 2011. Shutterbugs: To add your Summer Streets photos to our Flickr pool, label them with the “Streetsblog” tag.

Graphic via weather.com

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