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2016, baby. The year that the city sees weather records and says, “I can break that!”
The latest to fall, according to Capital Weather Gang? The temperature has stayed at 70 degrees or higher for 34 days, the longest such streak in recorded D.C. history.
It being summer in a swamp and all, no one is surprised that we’ve surpassed 70 degrees on the thermometer at National Airport. But this is the most days it has consistently stayed above 70 in 145 years of keeping tabs on the weather, CWG says. The previous record had held for more than a quarter century—it didn’t hit the 60’s for 32 days in August of 1980.
If you’re looking for temps in the swinging 60’s, CWG suggests you head to Dulles, where thermometers have seen such numbers during this month-long span.
Rachel Kurzius