Time Machine: Snow in Iowa in August?
CEDAR RIDS — Nine-nine years ago today, newspapers from Miami to Chicago to Montana to Pennsylvania printed reports that snow fell in Cedar Rapids,...
CEDAR RIDS — Nine-nine years ago today, newspapers from Miami to Chicago to Montana to Pennsylvania printed reports that snow fell in Cedar Rapids, shortly after 10 a.m. Aug. 4, 1924. 's afternoon edition put the story on that day's front page, noting the snow came at the end of a 'particularly violent rainstorm.' 'Snow — the genuine stuff — fell in Cedar Rapids today, Aug. 4, A.D. 1924. The full date is given for the benefit of posterity, which in years to come, when weather freaks are discussed, will date back to the ‘time snow fell on Aug.