Weather Quiz

Prior to Hurricane Otto last week, when was the last time a tropical storm or hurricane tracked from the Atlantic across Central America to the Pacific Ocean?

A.  1950

B.  1985

C.  1996

D.  2005

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Answer to Weather Quiz question from November 17.

B.  St. Patrick’s Day.  The snowiest Thanksgiving on record in Washington, D.C. was in 1989 (1.6”).  By comparison, the snowiest St. Patrick’s Day in the Nation’s Capital came recently in 2014 when 3.9” of snow fell.  For more details, check out my Thanksgiving column.