Subj : Today's Weather History
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Mon Aug 29 2016 12:01 am
TODAY Version 3.7 06/24/94 Copyright 1986, 1994 By Patrick Kincaid
Today is Monday August 29, 2016.
This is the 242nd day of the year, there are 124 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 1962 Hackberry LA was deluged with 22.00 inches of rain in 24
hours, establishing a state record.
In 1965 A national record for the month of August was established
when 2.5 inches of snow fell atop Mount Washington NH.
Temperatures in New England dipped to 39 degrees at
Nantucket MA, and to 25 degrees in Vermont. It was the
earliest freeze of record for many locations. The
temperature at Chicago IL dipped to 43 degrees.
In 1978 A tornado from Tropical Storm Debra wrecked parts of Memphis,
coming within a mile of Elvis Presley's Graceland.
In 1987 Some of the most powerful thunderstorms in several years
developed over the piedmont of North Carolina, and
marched across central sections of the state during the
late afternoon and evening hours. Baseball size hail was
reported around Albemarle, while thunderstorm winds
downed giant trees around High Falls.
In 1988 Cool air invaded the north central U.S. Ten cities
reported record low temperatures for the date, including
Bismarck ND with a reading of 33 degrees. Deerfield, a
small town in the Black Hills of South Dakota, reported
a morning low of 23 degrees. The remnants of Tropical
Storm Chris drenched eastern Pennsylvania with up to 5.50
inches of rain, and produced high winds which gusted to
90 mph, severely damaging a hundred boats in Anne Krundel
County MD.
In 1989 Evening thunderstorms produced destructive lightning in
West Virginia. The lightning caused widepsread damage,
particularily in Doddridge County. Numerous trees were
downed closing many roads. Fire companies had a
difficult time tending to the many homes and trailers on
fire. Anchorage AK reported a record 9.60 inches of rain
for the month of August. The average annual
precipitation for Anchorage is just slighty more than
fifteen inches. Three day rainfall totals in northwest
Missouri ranged up to 8.20 inches at Maryville.
In 2004 For the fourth time in a month, the Carolina coast was
was affected by a tropical weather system. After
Hurricane Alex on the 3rd and 4th, the remnants of
Tropical Storm Bonnie on the 12th, Hurricane Charley
on the 14th, Tropical Storm Gaston with 70 mph winds,
came ashore on the 29th near Charleston. After bringing
heavy rain, flooding, and tornadoes to the region, the
storm was picked up by an approaching cold front, which
turned Gaston north, then northeast off the U.S. Coast
on the 30th (29th-30th)...but not before bringing severe
flooding to the Richmond, Virginia area. That same day,
Tropical Storm Hermine formed in the Atlantic, a record
8th named storm for the month of August. Hermine made
landfall near New Bedford, Massachusetts on the 31st,
before becoming extratropical.
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