On this date in 1834, an exceptionally late winter storm dumped heavy snow in New England. Weather historian David Ludlum wrote that the hills around Newbury, Vermont, were covered in 2 to 3 feet of snow and that flakes were reported as far south as the Pocono Mountains. Meanwhile, unusually cold air spread far to the south. The website glenallenweather.com reports that the low temperature on Capitol Hill in the District was 32 degrees and the high only 50 — “the coldest ever in mid-May.”
Here are other notables from this day:
- Average high: 76
- Average low: 58
- Record high: 94 (1962)
- Record low: 40 (1939)
- Record rainfall: 1.28 inches (1949)
