Fog hangs over the dome of the U.S. Capitol in December 2024.
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When President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in Monday, it will be on an unusually cool Inauguration Day, with temperatures expected to be about 20 degrees colder than normal for this time of year.
The maximum temperature for the day is expected to be below It’s a freezing 23 degrees, as Trump begins his second term, while the low for the day could drop to just 10 degrees.
Trump’s return to Washington will mark the coldest Inauguration Day in 40 years, since President Regan’s inauguration in 1985, when temperatures were a frigid 7 degrees, but described as “sunny, but freezing.”
When Trump first took the presidential oath of office in 2017, the weather was mostly normal for the day, with a temperature of 48 degrees, although ceremony attendees faced light rain throughout the day .
The good news for those attending the event this year is that no precipitation is expected on Inauguration Day itself, although snow and rain are possible the afternoon before.
