On this day in 1971, 1.4 inches of snow fell in D.C. but much more to the north and west. “Several hundred Thanksgiving eve travelers were stranded along roads in some Virginia counties to the west of Washington last night as the year’s first winter storm dumped up to 10 inches of snow there,” The Washington Post wrote on its front page the next day. Washington Dulles International Airport picked up 2.9 inches.
Here are other notables from this date:
- Average high: 55
- Average low: 39
- Record high: 74 (2014)
- Record low: 13 (1880)
- Record rainfall: 2.83 inches (1877)
- Record snowfall: 1.5 inches (1909)
