A rare Texas snow event on Thursday has produced accumulations ranging from 3 inches near Waco to as much as 9.5 near Decatur, according to the United States National Weather Service (NWS).

Dallas/Fort Worth Airport recorded 7.9 inches of snow today, which breaks the previous daily record of 1.4 inches set in 1988.

“Widespread precipitation continues to fall across much of north Texas,” NWS stated at 6:30 PM CST.

A potentially dangerous snowstorm headed for the nation’s Capitol on Friday closed schools, triggered winter warnings and placed an additional financial strain on local and state governments.

An urgent bulletin from the National Weather Service predicted record snowfall in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. region which could rival the January, 1922 “Knickerbocker Storm.”