On this day in 1927, a calendar-day record 1.92 inches of rain fell. “A torrential rain, carried on the wings of a wind of gale-like intensity, swept over Washington last night as the climax of the phenomenal hot spell which has held the city in its grasp for several days,” the front page of The Washington Post reported. Ahead of the storm, temperatures had soared into the upper 80s and low 90s the prior three days, about 10 to 15 degrees above normal.
“Wind and rain succeeded in extinguishing lights, delaying street car service and disrupting telephone service in many sections of the city,” The Post wrote. “Streets were flooded as the wind swept the heavy rain across them in veritable sheets, and along many of them trees which had formerly proudly tossed their branches to the sky fell like soldiers under the onslaught of machine guns.”
Here are other notables from this date:
- Average high: 74
- Average low: 58
- Record high: 92 (1879)
- Record low: 35 (1899)
- Record rainfall: 1.92 inches (1927)
