On this day in 1971, the temperature soared to a calendar-day record 85 degrees, which is also the highest temperature observed so late in the year. Warm weather was felt along much of the East Coast with record highs of 87 degrees in Mobile, Alabama; 80 in Asheville, North Carolina; and 76 degrees in Syracuse, New York. The low of 70 degrees in Richmond that day marks its latest calendar-day low of 70 or higher.
Here are other notables from this date:
- Average high: 63
- Average low: 46
- Record high: 85 (1971)
- Record low: 28 (1923)
- Record rainfall: 0.99 inches (1940)
