Winter

It may be cold outside, but even if your nose and extremities might suggest otherwise, we're likely a fair ways off from the all-time record low temperature in Washington. That distinction goes to February 11, 1899. Around 7 a.m. that morning, the Weather Bureau at 24^th and M St., NW recorded its lowest reading ever, a frigid 15 degrees below zero.

It seems that predicting the weather in Washington has always been a little bit of a crapshoot. Check out this cartoon that ran on the front page of the Washington Evening Star newspaper on January 17, 1913.