Subj : Todays Weather History
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Sat Aug 12 2017 12:10 am

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

 Today is Saturday  August 12, 2017.
 This is the 224th day of the year, there are 141 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 1778 A Rhode Island hurricane prevented an impending British-
            French sea battle, and caused extensive damage in
            southeastern New England.
    In 1933 The temperature at Greenland Ranch in Death Valley CA hit
            127 degrees to establish a U.S. record for the month of
            August.
    In 1936 The temperature at Seymour TX hit 120 degrees to
            establish a state record.
    In 1955 During the second week of August hurricanes Connie and
            Diane produced as much as 19 inches of rain in the
            northeastern U.S. forcing rivers from Virginia to
            Massachusetts into a high flood.  Westfield MA was
            deluged with 18.15 inches of rain in 24 hours, and at
            Woonsocket RI the Blackstone River swelled from seventy
            feet in width to a mile and a half.  Connecticut and the
            Delaware Valley were hardest hit.  Total damage in New
            England was 800 million dollars, and flooding claimed 187
            lives.
    In 1987 Early afternoon thunderstorms in Arizona produced 3.90
            inches of rain in ninety minutes at Walnut National
            Monument (located east of Flagstaff), along with three
            inches of pea size hail, which had to be plowed off the
            roads.
    In 1988 Fifteen cities in the northeastern U.S. reported record
            high temperatures for the date.  Youngstown OH reported
            twenty-six days of 90 degree weather for the year,
            a total equal to that for the entire decade of the 1970s.
    In 1989 Thunderstorms were scattered across nearly every state in
            the Union by late in the day.  Thunderstorms produced
            wind gusts to 75 mph at Fergus Falls MN, and golf ball
            size hail and wind gusts to 60 mph at Black Creek WI.  In
            the Chicago area, seven persons at a forest preserve in
            North Riverside were injured by lightning.


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