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In early 2020 the newly elected Democratic Virginia General Assembly proposed ending the observance and designating Election Day as a replacement holiday. The Senate of Virginia voted in January to eliminate Lee–Jackson Day as a state holiday; [13] [14] [15] the legislation was passed a month later by the House of Delegates.
Lee–Jackson–King Day was a holiday celebrated in the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1984 to 2000 as a combination of Lee–Jackson Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day.From 2000 to 2020, the state observed them as two distinct holidays.
Greyhound Lines canceled 294 routes through Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia on December 19 and suspended service in and out of New York late Saturday. [ 25 ] Cars buried by nearly 24 inches (61 cm) of snow in Woodley Park , Washington, D.C., on December 19 National Weather Service image showing snowfall accumulation for ...
Downed power lines and trees from the severe weather Christmas Day made it difficult for homeowners at this McNeill, Miss., residence to begin clean up on Dec. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Weather Underground uses observations from over 250,000 personal weather stations worldwide. [21] The Weather Underground's WunderMap overlays weather data from personal weather stations and official National Weather Service stations on a Mapbox Map base and provides many interactive and dynamically updated weather and environmental layers. [22]
According to weather historian Christopher Burt, the coldest Christmas Day temperature on record in the continental U.S. was 53 degrees below zero at both Drewsey and Riverside, Oregon in 1924.
The series of snowstorms broke a 44-year-old record for the snowiest Christmas ever, with up to 28 inches (71 cm) of snow accumulated in some parts of the South Coast. It was the first "official" white Christmas in Vancouver since 1998. In fact, Vancouver would be the Canadian city with the greatest snow depth for the Christmas Day of 2008.
The 2004 Christmas Eve United States winter storm was a rare weather event that took place in Louisiana and Texas in the United States on December 24, 2004, before the storm moved northeast to affect the coastal sections of the Mid-Atlantic states and New England in the succeeding few days.