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DC weather history for April 11

A late-season 1894 storm brought record snowfall after a soaking rain, with heavy accumulations just to the north.

On this date in 1894, a calendar-day record 2 inches of snow fell. It came at the end of a storm that first produced over an inch of cold rain. The storm produced up to 18 inches of snow in central Pennsylvania, according to the York Daily Record.

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