On this day in 1988, the high and low temperatures of 23 and 13 were both calendar-day record lows. The day’s average temperature of 18 degrees was 24 degrees below the norm. It was a rare case of a day so cold this late in the 20th century. Most of Washington’s cold weather records occurred in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Here are other notables for this day:
- Average high: 50
- Average low: 35
- Record high: 71 (1873)
- Record low: 13 (1988)
- Record precipitation: 1.36 inches (1959)
- Maximum snow: 6.6 inches (1982)
