Subj : Today's Weather History
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Wed Mar 01 2017 12:10 am

 TODAY  Version 3.7   06/24/94       Copyright 1986, 1994  By Patrick Kincaid

 Today is Wednesday  March 1, 2017.
 This is the 60th day of the year, there are 305 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
    First day of meteorological spring.
    In 1910 The deadliest avalanche of record in the U.S. thundered
            down the mountains near Wellington Station WA sweeping
            three huge locomotive train engines and some passenger
            cars, snowbound on the grade leading to Stevens Pass,
            over the side and into a canyon, and burying them under
            tons of snow.  The avalanche claimed the lives of more
            than 100 people.  The station house at Wellington was
            also swept away.
    In 1914 High winds and heavy snow crippled New Jersey and New
            York State.  Two feet of snow were reported at Ashbury
            Park, and at New York City the barometric pressure
            dropped to a record 28.38 inches.  The storm caused
            complete disruption of electric power in New Jersey.
    In 1980 Norfolk VA received 13.7 inches of snow to push their
            season total to a record 41.9 inches exceeding their
            previous record by more than four inches.
            An unusually large Florida tornado, 500 yards in width
            at times, killed one person and caused six million
            dollars damage near Fort Lauderdale.
    In 1983 A ferocious storm battered the Pacific coast.
            The storm produced heavy rain and gale force winds
            resulting in flooding and beach erosion, and in the
            mountains produced up to seven feet of snow in five days.
    In 1987 A storm crossing the Great Lakes Region produced heavy
            snow and gale force winds from Wisconsin to northern
            New England, with eight inches of snow reported at
            Ironwood MI.
    In 1988 Thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds in
            north central Texas.  Baseball size hail was reported
            at Lake Kickapoo.  Hail fell continuously for thirty
            minutes in the Iowa Park area of Wichita Falls.
    In 1989 March came in like a lion, with snow and high winds, in
            the northwestern U.S.  Winds gusted to 86 mph in the
            Rosario Strait of western Washington State.
    In 1990 A series of low pressure systems moving out of the
            Gulf of Alaska spread high winds and heavy snow across
            western Alaska.  Winds in the Anchorage area gusted
            to 69 mph at Glen Alps, and Talkeetna was buried
            under three feet of snow in two days.  Valdez received
            21.4 inches of snow, raising their total for the
            winter season to 482.4 inches.
    In 1997 Arkansas' Tornado Season started violenty with F4 tornadoes
            hitting Arkadelphia and College Station, just southeast of
            Little Rock, just before Arkansas' Severe Weather Awareness
            Week for the year was to begin. Tornadoes also affected
            parts of Mississippi...including Randolph, Martintown, and
            New Albany. As with the tornadoes that hit Arkansas, these
            tornadoes also were responsibile for fatalities as well.
    In 2004 Tropical Cyclone Monte deluged large areas of Austrailia,
            with heavy rain and widespread flooding.


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