On this day in 1904, a calendar-day record 4 inches of snow fell. Heavy rain also occurred and the combination of rain and melted snow set a calendar-day record 1.76 inches of precipitation. The storm that produced the rain and snow was tropical in its origins and was a hurricane as far north as the North Carolina Outer Banks, before it turned nontropical. Snow also fell in western North Carolina and as far southeast as Richmond.
Here are other notables from this date:
- Average high: 59
- Average low: 42
- Record high: 80 (1879)
- Record low: 22 (1911)
- Record rainfall: 1.76 inches (1904)
- Record snowfall: 4.0 inches (1904)
