Sunday’s torrential downpours ended up as one for the record books. According to measurements by the National Weather Service, 5.19 inches of rain fell at Reagan National Airport on Sunday — a figure more than three times the previous record-rainfall for a June 25. The previous record for June 25 was 1.6 inches, back in 1871.

“It blew [the old record’s] doors off,” said Dennis Feltgen, a meteorologist and spokesman for the National Weather Service in Silver Spring.