Graphic image courtesy of The Washington Post

This summer’s heat wave has already set several records. D.C.’s temperatures already climbed past 100 degrees this afternoon with the expectation that it could go higher. But will today’s high reach another record shattering moment?

The Post asks the same question. In reporting on what could possibly be the Washington area’s hottest day on the record, the newspaper took readers back in time. It captured the front page of a July 21, 1930 issue, which reported that temperatures the day before hit 105.6 degrees:

The temperature that caused the official thermometer to rampage that day — July 20 — was reported to have reached 105.6 degrees. History has rounded that up to 106, tying the 1930 date with another in 1918 for the hottest day ever recorded in Washington.