1958: On March 19, 1958. Rain began falling along the eastern seaboard as a weak storm moved across the Ohio Valley as that system approached the East Coast cold air was drawn into the storm from eastern Canada. The storm exploded. As it strengthened rapidly and the cold air settled southward all the way into the Mid-Atlantic states the rain changed to snow and more and more moisture was feed into the system from a strong jet stream that reached all the way down into the Gulf of Mexico.

More than foot of snow covered many of the big northeastern cities from Philadelphia to Boston. Many of the northern and eastern suburbs received almost 2 feet of snow from the storm that would go into the History books as the ‘Eve of Spring Snowstorm”. Just south of the snow area in Washington DC and Baltimore had record rainfall of almost 4”.

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