Weather Quiz

View from the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

True or False.

When the temperature reached 102 degrees at National Airport on June 9, 2011, it was the earliest triple digit temperature on record in Washington, D.C.

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Answer to Weather Quiz question from May 31.

D.  This was sort of a trick question.  Two tropical storms last developed in the Atlantic Ocean prior to June 1 in May 2012.  That was the first time it had happened since 1951.  As many will recall, 1995 and 2005 were each busier than average hurricane seasons in the Atlantic Ocean.