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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Aug 04 2017 07:05 am

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

Today is Friday  August 4, 2017.
This is the 216th day of the year, there are 149 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 1882 A vivid aurora was visible from Oregon to Maine, down the
           east coast as far as Mayport FL, and inland as far as
           Wellington KS.  Observers at Louisville KY noted "merry
           dancers" across the sky.  Observers at Saint Vincent MN
           noted it was probably the most brilliant ever seen at
           that location.
   In 1930 The temperature at Moorefield WV soared to 112 degrees to
           establish a state record, having reached 110 degrees the
           previous day.  Widespread drought after April of that
           year caused some towns to haul water for domestic use,
           and many manufacturing plants were barely operational.
   In 1961 Spokane WA reached an all-time record high of 108 degrees.
           Kalispell MT set an all-time record with a reading of 105
           degrees.
   In 1980 A record forty-two consecutive days of 100 degree heat
           finally came to an end at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.
           July 1980 proved to be the hottest month of record with
           a mean temperature of 92 degrees.  There was just one day
           of rain in July, and there was no measurable rain in
           August.  There were 18 more days of 100 degree heat in
           August, and four in September.  Hot weather that summer
           contributed to the deaths of 1200 people nationally, and
           losses from the heat across the country were estimated at
           twenty billion dollars.
   In 1987 A cold front brought relief from the heat to a large part
           of the Midwest, while hot weather continued in the south
           central and eastern U.S.  Morning thunderstorms in
           Nebraska produced 8.71 inches of rain at Dalton, and hail
           up to three inches in diameter, which accumulated up to
           four feet deep near the town of Dix.
   In 1988 Thunderstorms produced severe weather from eastern Iowa
           to Lower Michigan during the afternoon and evening hours,
           producing golf ball size hail and spawning several
           tornadoes.  A thunderstorm at Maquoketa IA produced wind
           gusts to 75 mph.
   In 1989 Thunderstorms produced severe weather from eastern
           Nebraska and northeastern Kansas to the Great Lakes
           Region, with 150 reports of large hail or damaging winds
           during the afternoon, evening, and night.  Thunderstorms
           produced tennis ball size hail at Claremont MN, and wind
           gusts to 75 mph at Milwaukee WI.  Thunderstorms
           representing what once was Hurricane Chantal produced
           five inches of rain at Grant MI, and deluged Chicago IL
           with more than three inches of rain in three hours.
   In 2000 Alberto, the first tropical system of the 2000 Hurricane
           Season formed in the Atlantic, just west of the Cape
           Verde Islands. It would go from a Tropical Storm to a
           Hurricane three times...during its erratic path...before
           being absorbed by a large extratropical system on the
           23rd...becoming the 3rd longest Atlantic tropical
           system, and the longest August Atlantic tropical system.
   In 2004 Hurricane Alex becomes the strongest major hurricane to
           develop north of 38 degrees north latitude, with 120 mph
           surpassing winds. This surpasses Hurricane Ellen back in
           in 1973, with 115 mph winds. Alex and Ellen are the only
           two hurricanes on record to reach major hurricane status
           (category 3 or higher) at such a high latitude.
   In 2009 Severe thunderstorms brought flooding rain to much of the
           Ohio and Tennessee Valley region. Louisville, Kentucky,
           was inundated by 6 inches of rain in 90 minutes. Severe
           flooding occurred on the University Of Louisville campus,
           with the library and other buildings sustaining damage.
   In 2012 The formation of Tropical Storm Florence in the Atlantic
           Ocean marks the third earliest occasion, that the sixth
           named storm has occurred in the Atlantic Basin, behind
           only behind 1936 and 2005.
   In 2016 Hurricane Earl, the first hurricane in the Caribbean since
           Hurricans Sandy of 2012, made landfall near Belize City,
           Belize, as a Category 1 storm with 80 mph winds near 2am
           EDT. Earl was the strongest hurricane to hit Belize since
           Hurricane Richard on Oct. 23, 2010, which made landfall
           as a Category 2 hurricane with 100 mph winds.


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