Subj : Todays Weather History
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Sep 07 2017 12:13 am

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

 Today is Thursday  September 7, 2017.
 This is the 250th day of the year, there are 115 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 The temperature soared to 101 degrees at New York City,
            102 degrees at Boston MA, and 104 degrees at Washington D.C.
    In 1888 Much of the Middle and Northern Atlantic Coast Region
            experienced freezing temperatures.  Killer frosts
            resulted in a million dollars damage to crops in Maine.
    In 1909 Topeka KS was drenched with 8.08 inches of rain in
            24 hours to establish a record for that location.  (6th-7th)
    In 1970 A lightning bolt struck a group of football players at
            Gibbs High School in Saint Petersburg FL, killing two
            persons and injuring 22 others.  All the thirty-eight
            players and four coaches are knocked off their feet.
    In 1987 Showers and thunderstorms produced 4 to 8 inch rains in
            three to six hours in Virginia, with totals across the
            state for the Labor Day weekend ranging up to fourteen
            inches.  The Staunton River crested at 34.44 feet at
            Altavista on the 8th, its highest level since 1940.
            Damage due to flooding was estimated at seven million
            dollars in Bedford, Henry, and Franklin.
    In 1988 Fifty cities across the eastern U.S. reported record low
            temperatures for the date.  The low of 56 degrees at
            Mobile AL was their coolest reading of record for so
            early in the season.  The mercury dipped to 31 degrees at
            Athens OH, and to 30 degrees at Thomas WV.
    In 1989 Thunderstorms in the central U.S. produced four inches of
            rain at Texamah overnight, and up to six inches of rain
            in southwestern Iowa.  Evening thunderstorms in eastern
            Colorado produced golf ball size hail at Clear Creek and
            at Nederland.  Late evening thunderstorms in Iowa
            drenched Harlan with more than four inches of rain.
    In 2002 Tropical Storm Fay came ashore at Matagorda Bay, Texas,
            producing flooding rains and several tornadoes.
    In 2012 (7th-8th) A line of severe thunderstorms associated with
            a cold front sweeping across Arkansas, brought widespread
            damage, in the form of damaging winds (one home weather
            measured gusts near 85 mph), hail (up to baseball size in
            in some cases), and nearly continuous lightning. From 3pm
            Sept. 7 to 5am Sept. 8, there were approximately 53,000
            cloud to ground lightning strikes in Arkansas. Between
            8pm and 9pm Sept. 7, approximately 12,200 lightning
            strikes occurred...averaging over 200 strikes a minute!!


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