On this day in 2020, the high soared to a balmy 72 degrees in D.C. The Washington Post’s Martin Weil wrote that the high was “a temperature that seemed in no way like winter.” It was the second-warmest Jan. 11 on record, trailing 1975′s 75 degrees. Abnormally warm weather surged up the entire East Coast, setting scores of records from Florida to Maine.
The warmth was accompanied by a stiff breeze, which sometimes gusted over 30 mph. “It was the sort of day on which you might, within reason, contemplate doing anything outdoors, provided you held on to your hat,” Weil wrote.
And on this day in 1922, a powerful coastal storm unloaded a calendar-day record 1.72 inches of rain. Up to 22 inches of snow fell in the mountains.
Here are other notables for the day:
- Average high: 45
- Average low: 30
- Record high: 75 (1975)
- Record low: 2 (1982)
- Record precipitation: 1.72 inches (1922)
- Record snowfall: 4.3 inches (1904)
