TODAY Version 3.7 06/24/94 Copyright 1986, 1994 By Patrick Kincaid
Today is Friday August 4, 2017.
This is the 216th day of the year, there are 149 days left.
On this day...
Weather data after 1990 is PARTIAL. For more current
weather history, go to the National Climate Data Center
website at www.ncdc.noaa.gov
In 1882 A vivid aurora was visible from Oregon to Maine, down the
east coast as far as Mayport FL, and inland as far as
Wellington KS. Observers at Louisville KY noted "merry
dancers" across the sky. Observers at Saint Vincent MN
noted it was probably the most brilliant ever seen at
that location.
In 1930 The temperature at Moorefield WV soared to 112 degrees to
establish a state record, having reached 110 degrees the
previous day. Widespread drought after April of that
year caused some towns to haul water for domestic use,
and many manufacturing plants were barely operational.
In 1961 Spokane WA reached an all-time record high of 108 degrees.
Kalispell MT set an all-time record with a reading of 105
degrees.
In 1980 A record forty-two consecutive days of 100 degree heat
finally came to an end at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.
July 1980 proved to be the hottest month of record with
a mean temperature of 92 degrees. There was just one day
of rain in July, and there was no measurable rain in
August. There were 18 more days of 100 degree heat in
August, and four in September. Hot weather that summer
contributed to the deaths of 1200 people nationally, and
losses from the heat across the country were estimated at
twenty billion dollars.
In 1987 A cold front brought relief from the heat to a large part
of the Midwest, while hot weather continued in the south
central and eastern U.S. Morning thunderstorms in
Nebraska produced 8.71 inches of rain at Dalton, and hail
up to three inches in diameter, which accumulated up to
four feet deep near the town of Dix.
In 1988 Thunderstorms produced severe weather from eastern Iowa
to Lower Michigan during the afternoon and evening hours,
producing golf ball size hail and spawning several
tornadoes. A thunderstorm at Maquoketa IA produced wind
gusts to 75 mph.
In 1989 Thunderstorms produced severe weather from eastern
Nebraska and northeastern Kansas to the Great Lakes
Region, with 150 reports of large hail or damaging winds
during the afternoon, evening, and night. Thunderstorms
produced tennis ball size hail at Claremont MN, and wind
gusts to 75 mph at Milwaukee WI. Thunderstorms
representing what once was Hurricane Chantal produced
five inches of rain at Grant MI, and deluged Chicago IL
with more than three inches of rain in three hours.
In 2000 Alberto, the first tropical system of the 2000 Hurricane
Season formed in the Atlantic, just west of the Cape
Verde Islands. It would go from a Tropical Storm to a
Hurricane three times...during its erratic path...before
being absorbed by a large extratropical system on the
23rd...becoming the 3rd longest Atlantic tropical
system, and the longest August Atlantic tropical system.
In 2004 Hurricane Alex becomes the strongest major hurricane to
develop north of 38 degrees north latitude, with 120 mph
surpassing winds. This surpasses Hurricane Ellen back in
in 1973, with 115 mph winds. Alex and Ellen are the only
two hurricanes on record to reach major hurricane status
(category 3 or higher) at such a high latitude.
In 2009 Severe thunderstorms brought flooding rain to much of the
Ohio and Tennessee Valley region. Louisville, Kentucky,
was inundated by 6 inches of rain in 90 minutes. Severe
flooding occurred on the University Of Louisville campus,
with the library and other buildings sustaining damage.
In 2012 The formation of Tropical Storm Florence in the Atlantic
Ocean marks the third earliest occasion, that the sixth
named storm has occurred in the Atlantic Basin, behind
only behind 1936 and 2005.
In 2016 Hurricane Earl, the first hurricane in the Caribbean since
Hurricans Sandy of 2012, made landfall near Belize City,
Belize, as a Category 1 storm with 80 mph winds near 2am
EDT. Earl was the strongest hurricane to hit Belize since
Hurricane Richard on Oct. 23, 2010, which made landfall
as a Category 2 hurricane with 100 mph winds.
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* Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - wx1der.dyndns.org (57:57/10)
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