Subj : Today's Weather History
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Dec 23 2016 12:10 am
TODAY Version 3.7 06/24/94 Copyright 1986, 1994 By Patrick Kincaid
Today is Friday December 23, 2016.
This is the 358th day of the year, there are 8 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 1811 A cold storm hit Long Island sound with a foot of snow,
gale force winds, and temperatures near zero. During the
storm many ships were wrecked, and in some cases entire
crews perished.
In 1955 The barometric pressure dipped to a 28.97 inches
(981.0 millibars) at Boise ID, an all-time record for
that location.
In 1982 (23rd-25th) Twenty-nine tornadoes across Arkansas over three
days, added to the misery from an outbreak that occurred on
Dec. 2 and 3. The most tornadoes occurred on Christmas Eve,
with one fatality in Faulkner County, northwest of Little
Rock. Heavy rains resulted in river flooding across south
Arkansas. Elsewhere, a major winter storm struck Colorado,
producing heavy snow and blizzard conditions. A record two
feet of snow was reported at Stapleton Airport in Denver,
which was shut down for 33 hours. Up to 44 inches of snow
fell in the foothills surrounding Denver. The storm hurt
the ski industry, as skiers were unable to make it out of
Denver to the slopes, and the closed airport became a
campground for vacationers. (23rd-25th)
In 1983 The temperature plunged to 50 degrees below zero
at Williston ND to equal their all-time record.
Minneapolis MN reported an afternoon high of 17 degrees
below zero, and that evening strong northerly winds
produced wind chill readings of 100 degrees below zero in
North Dakota.
In 1987 A winter storm brought heavy snow to the Central Rockies,
and also spread a blanket of snow across the Middle
Missouri Valley in time for Christmas. Snow and high
winds created near blizzard conditions in Wyoming.
Snowfall totals in Wyoming ranged up to 25 inches at
Casper, with four feet of snow reported at the Hogadon
Ski Resort on Capser Mountain. The Wolf Creek Ski Resort
in Colorado received 26 inches of snow. Totals in the
Middle Missouri Valley ranged up to 16 inches at Alpena
SD, with 14 inches at Harrison NE. Strong winds ushered
unseasonably cold air into the southwestern U.S. Canyon
winds gusting to 100 mph created ground blizzards in
Utah.
In 1988 Low pressure in the Upper Midwest produced strong and
gusty winds across the Great Lakes Region and the Ohio
Valley. Winds in Ohio gusted to 47 mph at Cincinnati,
and reached 51 mph at Cleveland.
In 1989 An historic arctic outbreak spread to the Gulf Coast
Region, and a total of 122 cities across the central and
eastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the
date. Forty-one of those cities reported record lows for
the month of December, with some cities breaking December
records established the previous morning. Morning lows of
11 degrees at New Orleans LA and Lake Charles LA,
4 degrees below zero at San Angelo TX, and 26 degrees
below zero at Topeka KS, established all-time records for
those four locations. Yankton SD was the cold spot in
the nation with a morning low of 31 degrees below zero.
A storm system moving across the Florida peninsula and
along the Southern Atlantic Coast produced high winds and
record snows along the Carolina coast. Snowfall totals
of 15 inches at Wilmington NC and 13.3 inches at Cape
Hatteras NC were all-time records for those
two locations. Gale force winds, gusting to 60 mph,
produced waves thirty-four feet high off the coast of
North Carolina, and whipped the heavy snow into drifts up
to eight feet high. The storm resulted in the first
white Christmas of record from northeastern Florida to
North Carolina.
In 2002 A powerful early winter storm brought a wide variety of
weather to much of the southern plains eastward, and into
the northeast U.S. (23rd-25th). Heavy snow was reported
in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri, with 12 deaths in the
plains being blamed on the storm. The storm also gave a
White Christmas to the Ohio Valley into the northeast.
On the warm side of the storm, high winds, tornadoes, and
heavy rain were seen. Houston, TX had strong winds, flash
flooding was in the Atlanta, GA area, with tornadoes in
southwest Georgia and Alabama...as well as in Texas,
Louisiana, and Florida.
