On this day in 2004, a calendar-day record 2.06 inches of rain fell. The windswept soaking came from an area of low pressure that cut through the Tennessee Valley and passed south of D.C. before turning northeast and paralleling the coast of New England, according to CapitalWeather.com, the predecessor to the Capital Weather Gang.
And on this day in 2009, the area was drenched by the remnants of Hurricane Ida, which struck Alabama as a tropical storm on Nov. 10, and then morphed into a nor’easter off the Mid-Atlantic coast. D.C. received nearly 2 inches of rain between Nov. 11 and 14 from the storm. In Richmond, a November-record 3.51 inches accumulated. High winds buffeted the coast; Norfolk clocked a gust at 75 mph. Moderate to severe flooding also affected the Atlantic shore from North Carolina to New Jersey.
Here are other notables from this date:
- Average high: 59
- Average low: 43
- Record high: 77 (1912)
- Record low: 24 (1926)
- Record rainfall: 2.06 inches (2004)
- Record snowfall: 0.6 inches (1976)
