On this day in 1941, the temperature soared to a calendar-day record 93 degrees. It was the second of three straight record-hot days. It was 96 on Oct. 5 and 95 on Oct. 7.
“The sun blazed down mercilessly on Washington and vicinity yesterday, sending the mercury soaring to a high of 96 degrees, the hottest October day recorded here,” The Washington Post wrote on its front page on Oct. 6. “The weather man offers little relief for today.”
Here are other notables from this date:
- Average high: 73
- Average low: 56
- Record high: 93 (1941)
- Record low: 35 (1881)
- Record rainfall: 1.47 inches (1957)
