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Snowfall recorded at Philadelaphia International Airport in July


Amidst a July heat wave, Philadelphia welcomed some snow earlier this week. 

At 2:02 a.m. on Monday, July 15, the National Weather Service reported a record daily maximum snowfall was set at Philadelphia International Airport on Sunday, July 14.

The trace amount of snowfall was due to hail – frozen precipitation – from thunderstorms moving over the area on Sunday afternoon, which the National Weather Service classifies as snow.  

Trace amounts of snow were recorded at Philadelphia International Airport on Sunday, July 14, 2024.

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Sunday’s surprise snowfall breaks the previous trace snowfall record of 0 inches set in 1870.  

The National Weather Service shared more than a dozen other times a trace of snow has been recorded at Philadelphia International Airport in June, July or August:

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