On this date in 2018, 4.1 inches of snow blanketed D.C. — the most so late in the season since 1964. The snow — coinciding with the first day of spring — closed schools and the federal government. “The snowflakes are big and fat, and the wet snow is sticking to everything,” I wrote during the storm.
Here are other notables for the day:
- Average high: 58
- Average low: 40
- Record high: 89 (1921)
- Record low: 10 (1885)
- Record precipitation: 2.15 inches (1918)
- Record snowfall: 5.3 inches (1924)
