On this date in 2023, the temperature soared to a calendar-day record high of 81 degrees. It was just a few ticks below Washington’s record high temperature for all of February, which was 84 degrees on Feb. 25, 1930. The warm day contributed to D.C.’s third-warmest February on record.
Here are other notables for the day:
- Average high: 50
- Average low: 33
- Record high: 81 (2023)
- Record low: 11 (1907)
- Record precipitation: 1.34 inches (1994)
- Record snowfall: 6.9 inches (1987)
