Subj : Today's Weather History
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Nov 11 2016 12:01 am
TODAY Version 3.7 06/24/94 Copyright 1986, 1994 By Patrick Kincaid
Today is Friday November 11, 2016.
This is the 316th day of the year, there are 50 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 1911 The central U.S. experienced perhaps its most dramatic
cold wave of record. During the early morning hours
temperatures across the Central Plains ranged from
68 degrees at Kansas City to 4 above atNorth Platte NE.
In Kansas City, the temperature warmed to a record
76 degrees by late morning before the arctic front moved
in from the northwest. Skies become overcast, winds
shifted to the northwest, and the mercury began to plummet.
By early afternoon it was cold enough to snow, and by
midnight the temperature had dipped to a record cold
reading of 11 degrees above zero. Oklahoma City also
established a record high of 83 degrees and record low of
17 degrees that same day (11/11/11). In southeastern
Kansas, the temperature at Independence plunged from 83
degrees to 33 degrees in just one hour. The arctic cold
front produced severe thunderstorms and tornadoes in the
Mississippi Valley, a blizzard in the Ohio Valley, and a
dust storm in Oklahoma. Of particular note, Zanesville,
Wisconsin had an F-4 tornado, and blizzard conditions an
hour later.
In 1940 An Armistice Day storm raged across the Great Lakes
Region and the Upper Midwest. A blizzard left 49 dead in
Minnesota, and gales on Lake Michigan caused ship wrecks
resulting in another 59 deaths. Up to 17 inches of snow
fell in Iowa, and at Duluth MN the barometric pressure
reached 28.66 inches. The blizzard claimed a total of
154 lives, and in Iowa, killed thousands of cattle.
Whole towns were isolated by huge snowdrifts.
In 1955 An early arctic outbreak set many November temperature
records across Oregon and Washington. The severe cold
damaged shrubs and fruit trees. Readings plunged to near
zero in western Washington, and dipped to 19 degrees
below zero in the eastern part of the state.
In 1987 A deepening low pressure system brought heavy snow to the
east central U.S. The Veteran's Day storm produced up to
17 inches of snow in the Washington D.C. area snarling
traffic and closing schools and airports. Afternoon
thunderstorms produced five inches of snow in three
hours. Gale force winds lashed the Middle and Northern
Atlantic Coast. Norfolk VA reported their earliest
measurable snow in 99 years of records.
In 1988 Low pressure brought snow to parts of the Rocky Mountain
Region. Totals in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern
Colorado ranged up to 10 inches at Summitville. Evening
thunderstorms produced large hail in central Oklahoma and
north central Texas.
In 1989 Veteran's Day was an unseasonably warm one across much of
the nation east of the Rockies. Temperatures warmed into
the 70s and 80s from the Southern and Central Plains to
the southern half of the Atlantic coast. Thirty-four
cities reported record high temperatures for the date,
including Saint Louis MO with a reading of 85 degrees.
Calico Rock AR and Gilbert AR reported record highs of 87
degrees.
