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| Hurricane Douglas near peak intensity in August 1996 (Source: NOAA) |
True or False.
Prior to Friday’s forecasted high temperature near 30
degrees, the last time daily high temperatures in Washington, D.C. remained at
or below freezing on a December day was in 2010.
Answer to Weather Quiz question from
November 29.
C. Hurricane Cesar
crossed Nicaragua in 1996 and was renamed Douglas in the eastern Pacific
Ocean. While only a minimal Category 1
hurricane on the Atlantic side, it reached Category 4 intensity in the eastern
Pacific.
The winter of 2010 in the Washington, DC area was a pretty bad one, as I recall. Major snow storms and power outages extending multiple days causing great area-wide disruptions.
ReplyDeleteThe 2009-2010 winter was the snowiest on record in Washington, D.C. with a seasonal total of 56.1" compared to the seasonal average of 15.4".
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