The weather outside was frightful. Readings fell to the single digits in Washington, for the first time in five years, and numerous records were set.
High temperatures in and around the city barely cracked 20. The 22 in Washington bested the previous record of 23 on Christmas Eve 1989. Records of 20 and 22 were also set in Baltimore and Dulles, respectively. These numbers were about 25 degrees below average for the date.
The daily departure compared to average of minus-24.4 degrees was the biggest since it was 27.6 degrees below normal on Feb. 20, 2015. In 2015, the cold was aWhile temperatures turned somewhat less frigid for Christmas Day, a high of 34 was still 13 degrees below normal for the date. In both D.C. and Baltimore, it was the coldest two-day Christmas holiday since 1989 and the fourth coldest on record overall.
Readings in our area more broadly were as low as 2 in Damascus, 4 in Purcellville and 5 in Vienna. As close by as Mount Weather, in the Blue Ridge Mountains 45 miles west of Washington, the temperature fell as low as minus-2.In Snowshoe, W.Va., there was a low of minus-19 on Christmas Eve. Dolly Sods, on the rim of Canaan Valley, recorded a
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