On this day in 2014, the District received a calendar-day record 3.8 inches of snow. In areas north and west of Washington, as much as 7 to 10 inches fell. Dulles International Airport received 8.5 inches. Temperatures fell throughout the storm and winds increased. What began as heavy, wet snow became rather light and powdery.
Here are other notables for the day:
- Average high: 45
- Average low: 30
- Record high: 70 (1959)
- Record low: minus-4 (1985)
- Record precipitation: 1.41 inches (1902)
- Record snowfall: 3.8 inches (2014)
(this was also cold Reagan inauguration period in 1985)
