Election Day 1960 was quite a chilly one in Philadelphia, the climax of an eight-day cold snap.
On the day that the nation’s voters narrowly elected John F. Kennedy as their president, the official temperature in Philadelphia bottomed out at 25, a record for a Nov. 8.
At the airport the temperature went below freezing on seven of eight days that year, starting on Nov. 6.
One month after the election, another cold spell settled in, and the region had one of its biggest early-season snowstorms ever.
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