On this day in 1899, the high was only 4 degrees, the lowest maximum temperature ever recorded in D.C. The low temperature of minus-8 was a calendar-day record.
The next day (on Feb. 11), the low would drop to minus-15, D.C.’s lowest temperature ever observed. Fourteen inches of snow were on the ground amid the bitter cold and one of the area’s great blizzards was still to come on Feb. 12 to 14.
Here are other notables for the day:
- Average high: 47
- Average low: 31
- Record high: 68 (1960)
- Record low: minus-8 (1899)
- Record precipitation: 1.06 inches (2018)
- Record snowfall: 9.3 inches (1926)
