FROM TODAY'S PRINT EDITIONS:
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Cleft by vivid flashes of lightning, and its quiet fall accompanied by
April
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DC | Baltimore | Dulles | |||
5.5" | 1924 | 9.4" | 1924 | 4.0" | 1990 |
4.0" | 1889 | 5.0" | 1894 | 2.6" | 1982 |
3.5" | 1915 | 5.0" | 1916 | 2.5" | 1996 |
3.0" | 1918 | 4.5" | 1915 | 1.0" | 1973 |
2.0" | 1894 | 3.0" | 1917 | 0.6" | 1964 |
reverberating peals of thunder, the heaviest snow of the year yesterday enveloped the city in a white mantle nine inches deep.”
That’s how The Sun reported the April Fools Storm of 1924, the nastiest spring prank ever sprung on the city. The snow began at 4 a.m. and finally turned to sleet at 5 p.m. Traffic stalled, horses and pedestrians alike slipped and fell. The snowstorm remains heaviest on record here for April.
(SUN PHOTO: Amy Davis, April 9, 2000)