Subj : Todays Weather History To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Tue Aug 22 2017 12:14 am TODAY Version 3.7 06/24/94 Copyright 1986, 1994 By Patrick Kincaid Today is Tuesday August 22, 2017. This is the 234th day of the year, there are 131 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 1816 The growing season for corn was cut short as damaging frosts were reported from North Carolina to interior New England. In 1923 The temperature at Anchorage AK reached 82 degrees, a record for August for the location which was later tied on the 2nd in 1978. In 1987 A cold front lowered temperatures 20 to 40 degrees across the north central U.S., and produced severe thunderstorms in Ohio and Lower Michigan. An early morning thunderstorm near Sydney MI produced high winds which spun a car around 180 degrees. In 1988 Afternoon highs of 88 degrees at Astoria OR and 104 at Medford OR were records for the date, and the number of daily record highs across the nation since the first of June topped the 2000 mark. In 1989 Evening thunderstorms in the central U.S. produced golf ball size hail at May City IA, and wind gusts to 66 mph at Balltown IA. Lightning struck a barn in Fayette County IA killing 750 hogs. Evening thunderstorms in Montana produced wind gusts to 70 mph at Havre. In 1999 Hurricane Bret, which went from a category 1 to a category 4 hurricane in under 12 hours, slammed into the south Texas coast near Baffin Bay, with 140 mph winds, a 15 foot storm surge, and rainfall totals of over 30 inches in some areas. Corpus Christi, north of Bret...and Brownsville, south of Bret...missed the full force of the storm, but still had heavy rain and wind. --- þ Synchronet þ The Thunderbolt BBS - wx1der.dyndns.org .