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Significant Winter Storm to Bring Heavy Snow and Ice Impacts; Dangerously Cold Temperatures Expands Across the East; Severe Storm Threat in the Gulf States Sunday

A significant winter storm is underway, bringing widespread heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain from the Southern Rockies to New England through Monday. Extremely cold air will follow, prolonging dangerous travel and infrastructure impacts into next week. Severe thunderstorms may produce damaging gusts and tornadoes across the eastern Gulf Coast states Sunday morning and afternoon. Read More >

On This Day In Weather History - January 25

Local


NULL   There have been three years with average temperatures that were below zero, a minus three in 1904, a minus one in 1905 and 1940.

1991   The 103 year record snowfall fro the date was broken with 6.2 inches from less that half an inch of measurable precipitation, resulting in dry powder.


National


1821   People were able to walk across the frozen Hudson River between Hoboken and New York City. Entrepreneurs sold coffee on the river to warm pedestrians.

2003   Three youths at a detention center in the Annapolis Valley, in southeastern Canada, took advantage of record breaking snowfall to escape. A snowbank high enough to climb over a fence in the yard was constructed and then used to escape. One of the three youths was arrested minutes after he escaped. The cold temperatures forced the remaining youths to turn themselves in.