Episode 3 of 3

West Coast Snowfall Record

When
February 5, 1887
Where
San Francisco
Part of
The extremely harsh winter of 1886–87 begins on the Great Plains

The winter weather reached the West Coast, setting an all-time snowfall record in downtown San Francisco on February 5, 1887.

The winter of 1886–87 was extremely harsh for much of continental North America, especially the United States. The winter weather even reached the West Coast, with snowfall of 3.7 inches in downtown San Francisco setting an all-time record on February 5, 1887.

Sources

  1. Winter of 1886–87 in the United States Wikipedia, revision of 2026-01-06

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.