On this date in 2005, a calendar-day record 1.85 inches of rain fell. It was a “good ol’ fashioned soaker,” according to CapitalWeather.com, the independent website that would eventually become part of The Washington Post as the Capital Weather Gang. Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport received a record 2.56 inches.
The rain was produced by a zone of low pressure that passed through Kentucky and then redeveloped off the Delmarva coast. It was a cold rain, with temperatures stuck in the 40s; 5 to 10 inches of snow fell in the interior Northeast.
Here are other notables for the day:
- Average high: 59
- Average low: 41
- Record high: 93 (1907)
- Record low: 16 (1888)
- Record precipitation: 1.85 inches (2005)
- Record snowfall: 2.8 inches (1934)
