FROM TODAY'S PRINT EDITIONS:
What was it about the April weather in Baltimore in 1874 and 1875? Official record-keeping here had only begun a few years earlier, in 1871. But in those two years alone we established nine weather records that have not been broken in the 135 Aprils since. Mostly it was the cold – record lows (in the 20s and 30s) on five dates, and record-low daily highs (in the 30s and 40s) on three dates. The string of records was capped on April 29, 1875 with a 2.5-inch rainstorm.
(SUN PHOTO: Kennth K. Lam, April 7, 2007)