Quite a contrast this year, with January-August 2013 at DCA averaging 60.4, still good enough for 18th warmest on DC's all-time list, but down 3.7 degrees from last year. The 2013 meteorological summer averaged 78.3 (26th), down 2.1 degrees from last year. But the real story of the DCA summer was the sharp contrast in relative placement between the average minimum of 70.76 (5th, down only 0.58 degrees from last year) vs. the average maximum of 85.8 (54th, down 3.7 degrees from last year). To put that in perspective, the four hottest meteorological summers in DC history (2010, 81.3; 2011, 81.1; 2012, 80.4; 1980, 80.0) were also the four hottest in the exact same order with respect to both average minimum temperatures (2010, 72.4; 2011, 72.1; 2012, 71.34; 1980, 70.79) and average maximum temperatures (2010, 90.1; 2011, 90.0; 2012, 89.5; 1980, 89.3).