On this day in 1978, a calendar-day record 2.3 inches of snow fell. It followed 0.8 inches the night before.
“The season’s first storm deposited 3 to 5 inches of snow on the Washington area yesterday, slowing commuter traffic, closing some schools and bringing the long, glorious autumn of 1978 to an abrupt end,” The Washington Post reported on Nov. 28. “With temperatures hovering just above freezing, snow blanketed the area Sunday night and early yesterday, then turned to cold, intermittent rain the rest of the day.”
Here are other notables from this date:
- Average high: 54
- Average low: 38
- Record high: 75 (1896)
- Record low: 14 (1950)
- Record rainfall: 1.82 inches (1944)
- Record snowfall: 2.3 inches (1978)
