On this day in 1938, a calendar-day record 1.43 inches of rain fell as the infamous 1938 hurricane, known as the Long Island Express or Great New England Hurricane, barreled toward the East Coast. A surge of rain in the Mid-Atlantic, indirectly associated with the hurricane, presaged its arrival. Parts of the Delmarva Peninsula received over 8 inches but impacts in the Mid-Atlantic were minor compared with the catastrophe that unfolded in New England.
Here are other notables from this date:
- Average high: 79
- Average low: 63
- Record high: 94 (1895)
- Record low: 41 (1916)
- Record rainfall: 1.43 inches (1938)
