1933 (Monday)
This was the eighth day in a row with a high of 50° or warmer. At a time in the winter when highs are typically in the upper 30s, the average high during this streak was 56°.
1935 (Wednesday)
One day after a winter storm dropped 5.1" of snow, a much bigger snowstorm today dumped thirteen inches. Snow began late this morning, and between 1-7 PM it fell at a rate of an inch or more per hour. Flakes fell until the wee hours of the next day. Temperatures fell slowly, dropping from 26° to 18° (and they'd continue to fall the following day). This was the first snowstorm of a foot or more in nine years.
1936 (Thursday)
The temperature plummeted from 41° at 10:00 last night to -3° by 7:00 this morning. This was the fourth winter in a row to have a sub-zero reading, the longest such streak on record.
1957 (Wednesday)
After rising to 60° during the morning, the mildest reading of the month, a slap of Arctic air slashed the temperature by forty degrees by midnight - one of Central Park's biggest temperature drops in the course of a day. (The greatest drop is 50 degrees, from 58° to 8°, on Dec. 23, 2022.)
1971 (Saturday)
Today's high of 46° was the mildest reading in what was a very cold January (6.2 degrees below average).
1976 (Friday)
This morning's low was one below zero, the first sub-zero reading in New York in eight years. This was the second time a sub-zero reading occurred on this date, the first being 40 years earlier, when the low was -3°.
1998 (Friday)
2.55" of rain fell, with much of it (two inches) falling between 4-9 PM. This was a record amount for the date.
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