On this day in 1961, a calendar-day record 6.4 inches of snow fell. It was a heavy, wet snow and the 1.63 inches of total precipitation reflective of the water-equivalent from the melted snow was also a calendar-day record. The high temperature was 33 degrees and the low was 30. The snow occurred amid a snowy winter which also included the storm that dropped about 8 inches before President Kennedy’s inauguration.
Here are other notables for the day:
- Average high: 47
- Average low: 31
- Record high: 74 (2017)
- Record low: 0 (1895)
- Record precipitation: 1.63 inches (1961)
- Record snowfall: 6.4 inches (1961)
