Photo by D Rob

First we broke a record with how mild winter was, and now the Capital Weather Gang reports that we’re on our way to a record-setting springtime warmth:

Through yesterday (May 23), the monthly average temperature at D.C.’s Reagan National Airport was running 4.3 degrees F above normal. A slightly warmer-than-average April on the heels of unusual March warmth has brought D.C.’s 2012 springtime temperature up to 61.4ºF, or 4.9 degrees above the March-May average of 56.5ºF.

Second place belongs to 1977, at 60.7 degrees; 2010 was 60.5.

We can’t wait until the sweaty throes of August, when we can barely muster the energy needed to report that the 2012 summer went down as the most infernal ever.