On this day in 1953, a calendar-day record of 6.5 inches of snow fell. The storm total of 6.6 inches the next day marked the most snow ever observed so early in the season. The storm that produced the snow originated as a tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico.
“Winds in the D.C. area exceeded 30 mph and large snow drifts blocked some area roads,” Kevin Ambrose reported in an article for The Washington Post. “One particular snow drift located near Upper Marlboro, Maryland measured seven feet deep on Crain Highway.”
The front page of The Post on Nov. 7 said that the snow “snarled” the city and that a snow emergency was declared as “cars piled up on its icy streets.”
Here are other notables from this date:
- Average high: 62
- Average low: 44
- Record high: 80 (2015)
- Record low: 26 (1967)
- Record rainfall: 2.58 inches (1963)
- Record snowfall: 6.5 inches (1953)
