© NOAA/NCEStatewide ranks of January-through-November precipitation in 2018. States shaded in dark green had the wettest first 11 months of any year in records dating to 1895.
Over two dozen cities in the East and Midwest had their wettest year on record in 2018, stretching from North Carolina to South Dakota.
On Dec. 15, Reagan National Airport's year-to-date precipitation total eclipsed the previous record-wet year in the nation's capital,
which had stood for 129 years, since Benjamin Harrison took office as president.
After topping the record, they would tack on almost 5 inches of additional rain in the latter half of December.
Washington D.C. set a record-wet November, fifth-wettest September, fourth-wettest July and sixth-wettest May, according to National Weather Service records dating to 1871. Only January, March and October were drier than average in 2018 in the nation's capital.
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