Rain hits an NBC10 camera shot of then Philadelphia skyline during a storm on Sunday, July 14.
It may not have seemed like it -- with temperatures in the area hitting nearly 100 degrees as a heat wave moves across the region -- but Philadelphia saw a record snowfall on Sunday.
According to the National Weather Service, in information gathered at about 2:02 a.m. on Monday, thunderstorms passed over the Philadelphia region on Sunday afternoon and produced a "trace" amount of hail.
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SIGN UP The National Weather Service noted online that, "since hail is frozen precipitation,' the trace amount of snow counts in climate reports.
The "trace" amount is record setting and beat the previous record of 0.0 inches of snow that was set in 1870, the National Weather Service said.
For the rest of the week, snow is unlikely to return as the city is in the grips of another heat wave that also started on Monday.
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