On this date in 1933, violent storms ripped through the D.C. region. “An 18-degree drop in temperature followed the thunderstorm which descended from a green cast sky yesterday and damaged Washington Police Headquarters and a home in Alexandria as lightning flashes struck in and around Washington,” the front page of The Washington Post said the next day. D.C. received 1.55 inches of rain that day.
The Post also reported that six automobiles and a clubhouse were swept into the Potomac River near Sharpsburg, Maryland, south of Hagerstown, and that nine people “barely escaped with their lives.”
Here are other notables from this day:
- Average high: 89
- Average low: 72
- Record high: 101 (1898)
- Record low: 55 (1940)
- Record rainfall: 2.88 inches (1920)
