On this day in 1983, the temperature soared to a calendar-day record high of 98 degrees for a second straight day. It was part of a four-day streak with highs of at least 90 and a period with seven such days out of eight.
And on this day in 1917, the temperature tumbled to a calendar-day record low of 40 degrees, the coldest temperature ever observed so early in the fall. It was the first of three straight calendar-day record lows in the 40s. It was part of a chilly September that ranked as the second coldest on record.
And on this day in 2001, despite a large, lumbering hurricane offshore (Erin), the weather was sunny and warm in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast when terrorists hijacked four planes, flying one into the Pentagon and two into the World Trade Center towers in New York City; a fourth crashed in southern Pennsylvania.
“The sky over New York City was a deep, cloudless blue — what pilots call ‘severe clear,’” the National September 11 Memorial & Museum wrote. “That perfect September sky became forever etched in our collective memory, a stark backdrop to a day of unimaginable loss and heroism.”
Here are other notables from this date:
- Average high: 82
- Average low: 66
- Record high: 98 (1983)
- Record low: 40 (1917)
- Record rainfall: 1.85 inches (1882)
