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.
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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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