1918 (Sunday)
After soaring to 59° shortly before daybreak, the temperature fell sharply all day and was down to 18° as midnight approached (on its way to 8° by 8:30 AM tomorrow).
1937 (Wednesday)
A messy winter storm with snow, sleet and freezing rain produced 5.7" of snow, which fell mostly during the afternoon - it would be the biggest snowfall of the winter. During the evening the snow changed to freezing rain. This winter storm followed three days with highs in the 50s. (And the next two days would have highs in the upper 40s.)
1970 (Tuesday)
The 0.25" of precipitation that fell between 7 PM and 3 AM tomorrow in the form of snow (three inches), was the most to fall all month, a month which saw only 0.66" of precipitation (most of it snow). At the time, this was the driest January on record (later broken in 1981, when just 0.58" was measured).
1978 (Friday)
Snow that began yesterday evening fell at a rate of an inch an hour between 2-7 AM this morning, and by 2 PM 13.6" had piled up. This was New York's biggest snowfall since the "Lindsay snowstorm" of February 1969. (However, in less than three weeks this storm would be overshadowed by the great blizzard of February 1978.)
1987 (Tuesday)
Today was the first day this winter with a high temperature of 32° or colder, the latest date for this occurrence on record.
1994 (Thursday)
The morning low of 0° was a record for the date, but it was a two-degree "warm-up" from yesterday's low of -2°. The photo below shows a mostly ice-covered Hudson River as seen from my office at Worldwide Plaza on West 50th St.
1995 (Friday)
During a rare January thunderstorm, 0.44" of rain fell in just 30 minutes (10:18-10:48 AM), and 0.76" in an hour (10-11 AM). The day's total rainfall of 1.41" was a record for the date. This came near the end of a nine-day period (1/13-21) in which temperatures were 17 degrees above average.
1998 (Tuesday)
This was the fifth day in a row in which temperatures were stuck in the 30s. The average high/low during these days was 38°/32°.
2000 (Thursday)
The first measurable snow of the winter fell today, a steady light snow that moved in during late morning and continued thru much of the afternoon; 2.5" accumulated. This came just two years after the winter of 1998's first snowfall fell on Jan. 18. Today was also the 20th day in a row in which no low temperature was duplicated.
2019 (Sunday)
After a rainy morning (0.88" fell), Arctic air swept in, dropping the temperature from 42° late in the morning (the first reading in the 40s since 1/9), to 14° shortly before midnight. This was the coldest reading in more than a year, since a low of 5° on Jan. 7, 2018. Howling winds after dark produced wind chills around 0°. (And the temperature would fall ten more degrees by 9 AM on the 21st.)
2020 (Monday)
With a high/low of 31°/20°, today was just the second day this winter with a high of 32° or colder. It came nearly five weeks after the first occurrence, on 12/19 (when the high/low was 25°/16°). In a typical winter there have been nine days with highs this cold by 1/20. Since 1980 four winters had just one day with a high of 32° or colder (the most recent was the winter of 2013).
2026 (Tuesday)
Today's high in Central Park of 26° replicated the high on this date last year and in 2024. This year's mean temperature, however, was colder as the low was 16°, last year's was 17°, and 2024's was 18°.
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