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Pedestrians, most unprepared for the weather conditions, shuffle their way by S.H. Kress and Company at 818 and Montgomery Ward at 830 K Street in this snowy March 14, 1942, photograph. On that day – between 1 and 3 p.m. – temperatures dropped from 46 to 32 degrees, creating the ideal conditions for a rare Sacramento snowfall. The two inches that fell were topped by the record four that covered the city in 1888. The Weather Bureau, later called the National Weather Service, measured the 1942 accumulation by taking a ruler to Plaza Park at Ninth and J Streets. The next mentionable accumulation of snow in Sacramento would come in January 1972.
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