Subj : Todays Weather History To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Wed Sep 06 2017 12:10 am TODAY Version 3.7 06/24/94 Copyright 1986, 1994 By Patrick Kincaid Today is Wednesday September 6, 2017. This is the 249th day of the year, there are 116 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 1881 Forest fires in Michigan and Ontario resulted in 'Yellow Day' in the northeastern U.S. Twenty villages in Michigan burned, and a total of 500 persons were killed. Fires caused 2.3 million dollars in losses near Lake Huron. Candles were needed at the noon hour. In 1929 Iowa's earliest snow of record occurred as a few flakes were noted at 9 AM at Alton. In 1987 Heavy rainfall led to a mudslide which engulfed a mountain road in Venezuela. 200 were killed as mud swamped their cars. Thunderstorms produced more than seven inches of rain in Georgia. Four persons drowned, and two others suffered injury, as three couples attempted to cross Mills Stone Creek at Echols Mill in their automobile. Smoke from forest fires in California and Oregon spread across Utah into western Colorado. In 1988 Unseasonably cool weather prevailed across the north central and northeastern U.S. Thirty cities reported record low temperatures for the date, including Saint Joseph MO with a reading of 38 degrees. A low of 44 at Indianapolis IN was their coolest reading of record for so early in the season. The mercury dipped to 31 degrees at Hibbing MN and Philips WI. In 1989 An early afternoon thunderstorm produced wind gusts to 104 mph at Winterhaven FL flipping over four airplanes, and damaging five others. The high winds also damaged a hangar and three other buildings. A cold front produced strong winds and blowing dust in the Northern High Plains, with gusts to 54 mph reported at Buffalo SD. Powerful Hurricane Gabrielle and strong easterly winds combined to create waves up to ten feet high along the south half of the Atlantic coast. In 2012 Hurricane Michael, in the Atlantic Basin, became a hurricane...the third earliest formation of the seventh hurricane in a year...only behind 1886 and 1893. --- þ Synchronet þ The Thunderbolt BBS - wx1der.dyndns.org .