On this date in 2018, a long-lasting, intense windstorm buffeted the Washington region. Many locations experienced 12 or more consecutive hours of 50-plus mph gusts. Washington Dulles International Airport clocked a gust at 71 mph.
“At its height … there were more than half a million customers without power in the immediate D.C. region,” the Capital Weather Gang’s Jeff Halverson wrote at the time. “The storm unleashed a relentless hammering on trees, homes, power lines and the frayed psyche of Washingtonians for a very long 18 to 24 hours.”
Here are other notables for the day:
- Average high: 52
- Average low: 35
- Record high: 77 (1972)
- Record low: 13 (1925)
- Record precipitation: 1.65 inches (1994)
- Record snowfall: 4.5 inches (2009)
