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Washington, D.C. Just Experienced Its Largest 24-Hour Temperature Drop Ever
Recorded – Here’s How It Impacted The District’s Seasonal Blooms

The District just experienced its biggest 24-hour temperature drop ever
recorded, from historic heat to freezing rain in just a matter of hours!

Washington, D.C. Just Experienced Its Largest 24-Hour Temperature Drop Ever
Recorded – Here’s How It Impacted The District’s Seasonal
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Earlier this week, the District broke local temperature records for one of the
warmest March 10ths measured in decades, but within 24 hours, D.C. temperatures
crashed to the point where parts of the D.C. area experienced freezing rain and
snow!

While the drop in temperature was forecasted, it truly felt impossible while
the sun was shining and the warm air truly felt like spring.

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In other words, this year’s ‘[22]false spring‘ hit Washingtonians harder than
it ever has, and quickly humbled our hopes for an end to the cold winter
weather.

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How much did the temperature drop around D.C. in 24 hours?

The District experienced a 51-degree swing, from 84 degrees and sunny one day,
to 33 degrees with freezing rain and snow the next!

The remarkable drop in temperature is the largest ever recorded within 24 hours
in Washington, D.C., with records dating back to 1929.

The only ever similar temperature drop on record in D.C. was nearly a century
ago, in 1934, when temperatures went from 65 degrees to 14 degrees in a single
day.

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Did the record-breaking temperature ruin any of the District’s blooms or
blossoms?

Washington, D.C., is home to many gorgeous and iconic blooms that bring the
city to life every spring, but not all of them bloom at the same time, which
means that one bad storm is highly unlikely to impact all of the blooms and
blossoms around the District.

That being said, two particular blooms were at the highest risk of impact from
the historic temperature drop and subsequent weather:

  • The Okame cherry blossoms were just about at their peak bloom before the
    temperature shift, which means that most of their flowers likely fell due
    to shock from the weather.
  • The magnolia trees around the District, which were just about to start
    flowering, seemingly made it through the day unscathed. [23]According to
    the Smithsonian Garden, the magnolia trees around the Enid A. Haupt Garden
    and the Smithsonian Castle seemed to be progressing towards their bloom as
    if unfazed.

Fortunately, the District’s iconic Yoshino cherry blossoms were not impacted by
the major shift as they are not expected to bloom until the very end of the
month or the start of April.

See also: [24]One Of Washington, D.C.’s Very First Michelin-Starred Restaurants
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