On this day in 1881, the temperature plummeted to minus-14 degrees in the District, its lowest January temperature on record. In over 150 years of D.C. weather records, the minimum temperature only dropped lower on Feb. 11, 1899 when it reached minus-15.
Here are other notables for the day:
- Average high: 46
- Average low: 32
- Record high: 69 (2005)
- Record low: minus-14 (1881)
- Record precipitation: 1.52 inches (2003)
- Maximum snow: 4.5 inches (1899)
