On this date in 1971, a calendar-day record 3.79 inches of rain fell in D.C. as Tropical Storm Doria moved up the East Coast. On the paper’s front page, The Washington Post’s Carl Bernstein wrote that the resulting flooding killed at least two people in the region as high water “inundated many highways, yards and basements.” (The next summer, Bernstein would begin reporting on Watergate.)
Here are other notables from the day:
- Average high: 86
- Average low: 70
- Record high: 100 (1987)
- Record low: 51 (1885)
- Record rainfall: 3.79 inches (1971)
