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On This Day In Weather History - November 27

Local


1958   The snow continued into the next day with a two-day total of 4.9 inches.


National


1912   Snow fell across northern Florida, marking one of the only times it has ever snowed there in November.

1892   An Atlantic coastal storm produced a record 18.6 inches of snow at Norfolk, VA in 24 hours. The storm also brought snow to northern Florida for the first time in 35 years

1701   Anders Celsius, the astronomer who invented the Celsius thermometer scale, was born.

1898   The SS Portland passenger ship gave the name to the "Portland Storm" after the storm sunk the ship off the coast of Cape Cod, killing all 200 people aboard.