Nov 05 2009
Election Day Snowstorm
On this day in 1894, it was Election Day, and it was also a day of a major winter storm in Connecticut. This storm dumped up 12 inches of heavy wet snow and had winds gusting to 60 mph. There was damage to trees and telegraph wires.
Another snow event occurred on this day in 1988 when powerful low pressure system produced high winds from the Great Plains to New England and produced heavy snow in northern Wisconsin and Michigan. Winds gusted to 64 mph in Knoxville, TN and the winds reached 80 mph at Pleasant Valley, VT. Historical weather data from the National Weather Service archives.
The story states: “On this day in 1894, it was Election Day, and it was also a day of a major winter storm in Connecticut.” However, November 5, 1894 fell on a Monday, not a Tuesday, and so Election Day 1894 could not have been on November 5. Rather, it would have been on Tuesday, November 6. Did the storm perhaps begin on November 5 and extend into November 6?