Wanna go #fishing? @WTOP pic.twitter.com/JjPVwP07EK
— Kristi King (@kingWTOP) February 5, 2019
Diane Heyde doesn’t know “weather” to break out the hand warmers or the flip flops @WTOP It’s February, right? pic.twitter.com/6QELowT8hQ
— Kristi King (@kingWTOP) February 5, 2019
Surveying for USARMY CorpsOfEngineers Balt, Rob Propster of VaBch has been on this spot along the Potomac for 6mo helping built a jetty at Dyke Marsh. “A lot more visitors today,” he says of warmer weather on the riverside trail @WTOP pic.twitter.com/fTNAO2kPvx
— Kristi King (@kingWTOP) February 5, 2019
Lee Blount of Alexandria is going fishing. Or, at least “have a nice boat ride...Sometimes in Feb. the river is frozen.” @WTOP pic.twitter.com/tDafHBXK0q
— Kristi King (@kingWTOP) February 5, 2019
Greg Frierson of Suitland, Md @NPS never knows what he’s going to get. “It’s a great, warm day to be outside.” @WTOP pic.twitter.com/FMGocZole0
— Kristi King (@kingWTOP) February 5, 2019
WASHINGTON — If you are tired of sharing frigid air with the North Pole, good news: The region is trading in a cold snap for spring-like temperatures, at least for a few days.
High temperatures on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday will likely break 60 degrees — more than 20 degrees above normal for this year, closer to what the D.C. area would normally see in April.
It’s a good day to head outdoors, and worth enjoying before daytime highs dip back into the 40s this weekend.
Despite the recent roller coaster ride in high temperatures, it’s not all that unusual for D.C. to see a few unseasonably warm days in February. Every February since 2011 has seen at least one day reach 60 degrees — 2016 to 2018 had at least six days over 60, with two days in February 2018 even passing 70.
“We tend to be fairly mild in February around the region,” NBC Washington meteorologist Lauryn Ricketts said.
In fact, the only February in the last 10 years where D.C. didn’t make it above 50 was 2010 — when the region saw one of its most significant blizzards in recent memory.
Here are the February stats Ricketts put together for the last 10 years:
2018: 5 days in the 60s, 2 days in the 70s
2017: 6 days in the 70s, 5 days in the 60
2016: 6 days in the 60s
2015: 1 day in the 60s
2014: 5 days in the 60s
2013: 1 day in the 60s
2012: 1 day in the 70s, 3 days in the 60s
2011: 4 days in the 70s, 2 days in the 60s
2010: No days above 50 degrees
2009: 1 day in the 70s, 4 days in the 60s
