Capital Weather engagement report
@capitalweather - 1.0M followers on X
Measured over 150 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 71 interactions against 1.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 150 original posts, its engagement rate beats 29% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 19K times each, and 0.382% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.85% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 7.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 150 posts sampled, 56% carry an image or video, 5% are part of a thread and 89% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.9K interactions, about 55x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #sunrise, #cwshare, #dmv.
Measured over 150 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 26, 2026. Recurring tags: #sunrise, #cwshare, #dmv.
Compared with accounts its own size
Capital Weather's engagement rate beats 29% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.
On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 25% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.007%, Capital Weather sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,152 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built
Posting timing
This account posts most often around 10:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 89K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 88K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 94K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 76K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 75K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 86K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 93K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 108K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 124K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 129K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 141K |
| 12:00 UTC | -3% | 154K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 167K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 173K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 176K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 171K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 159K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 149K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 141K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 131K |
| 21:00 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
Formats this account uses
Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 56% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 89% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 56% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 89% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 285 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.
These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.
Best tweets
- Sep 21, 202655x their median
🚨 We’re calling it: Summer is over in DC. After 50 days of 90+ heat and one of our 10 hottest summers on record, the pattern has finally flipped. 70s today. 60s Tuesday and Wednesday. And no sustained heat in sight. Welcome, fall. 🍂 Link: https://t.co/H1XOVPElJ1
- Sep 4, 202652x their median
Thursday night's storm -- just before midnight -- was INSANE in DC. Widespread 60-70 mph gusts... almost like a hurricane. Here's video from H St. NE from @we_are_wellfed on Instagram. More coverage at https://t.co/lFUceq9GkQ https://t.co/F8LwJBhl6p
- Sep 4, 202635x their median
⚡ 68 lightning flashes PER MINUTE. That’s what we measured at the peak of Thursday night’s violent DC storm — more than one flash per second. A typical thunderstorm peaks near 10 per minute. Add 60-70 mph wind gusts and blinding rain, and this was no ordinary storm. We dug into the data to explain exactly why it became so intense — and whether it was a derecho: https://t.co/W7Pq2ZqndH
- Sep 4, 202634x their median
Over 150,000 people without power after tonight's insane storms with nonstop lightning and violent winds. We'll have an explainer on this event on Friday. For now, see these dramatic videos from CW readers... Link: https://t.co/oQvegeqMwJ Video here from DC by Phil Yabut https://t.co/WmNfxqp9np
- Aug 30, 202623x their median
Outstanding views of the nearly full moon over DC Saturday evening. Photos by @gordonlauphoto @insiteimage https://t.co/hivZxTNbQ0
- Sep 15, 202623x their median
The Washington Sun has entered an exclusive licensing agreement with @capitalweather to be the only news organization to host its daily forecast. https://t.co/TifwHuNCSx
- Sep 18, 202616x their median
Sunrise this morning over D.C. @capitalweather https://t.co/98E6tgzsOC
- Sep 19, 202615x their median
It's DC's last day with an average high of 80 until May! https://t.co/LjegGJuxOB
- Sep 15, 202614x their median
We don't hand out many 10/10s, but Tuesday earns one. ☀️ Sunshine. Low humidity. Highs 75–80. Just about perfect. Then warmth and humidity make a comeback, with temperatures potentially flirting with 90 Thursday and rain chances later in the week. Full forecast at https://t.co/r3dKxepf5m Photo by Eden Scott
- Aug 25, 202614x their median
Noting: This morning's low temps (50s and low 60s) were the coolest in 8 weeks. FALL IS COMING. https://t.co/S9wh9I1KaI
Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.
Recurring topics
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 71 interactions against 1.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 150 original posts, its engagement rate beats 29% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 19K times each, and 0.382% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.85% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 7.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 150 posts sampled, 56% carry an image or video, 5% are part of a thread and 89% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.9K interactions, about 55x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #sunrise, #cwshare, #dmv.
- What is Capital Weather's engagement rate on X?
- Capital Weather (@capitalweather) has an engagement rate of 0.007%, based on the median interactions across 150 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,006,478 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.007%, Capital Weather sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,152 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
- Does @capitalweather have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 29% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
- When does @capitalweather post?
- Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 7.27 posts per day across the measured window.