As we learned this week, December stories can be messy, and that was the case on this date in 1951.
A total of 5.3 inches was measured at Philadelphia International Airport on a day when the total precipitation was over an inch, meaning that only about half of it was in the form of snow.
It also rained the next day.
As it turned out, it was the heftiest snow accumulation of the meteorological winter – Dec. 1 to Feb. 28 – but 6 inches did fall on March 1. The early 1950s represented an amazingly snow-less period.
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