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Ärende: Today In Weather History
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 TODAY  Version 3.7   06/24/94       Copyright 1986, 1994  By Patrick Kincaid

 Today is Friday  December 15, 2006.
 This is the 349th day of the year, there are 16 days left.

 On this day...
    In 1839 The first of triple storms hit Massachusetts Bay.  The
            storm produced whole gales, and more than 20 inches of
            snow in interior New England.  There was great loss of
            life at Gloucester MA.
    In 1901 An intense cold front swept across the eastern U.S.
            It produced heavy rain in Louisiana, and heavy snow
            in the northeastern U.S.
    In 1945 A record December snowstorm buried Buffalo NY under 36.6
            inches of snow, with unofficial totals south of the city
            ranging up to 70 inches.  Travel was brought to a halt by
            the storm.  (14th-17th)
    In 1987 A major winter storm hit the Great Lakes Region,
            intensifying explosively as it crossed northern Illinois.
            High winds and heavy snow created blizzard conditions in
            southeastern Wisconsin.  Winds gusted to 73 mph, and
            snowfall totals ranged up to 17 inches at LaFarge.  The
            barometric pressure at Chicago IL dropped three quarters
            of an inch in six hours to 28.96 inches, a record low
            reading for December.  Up to a foot of snow blanketed
            northern Illinois, and winds in the Chicago area gusted
            to 75 mph.  O'Hare Airport in Chicago was closed for
            several hours, for only the fourth time in twenty years.
            High winds derailed train cars at Avon IN.  Light winds
            and partly sunny skies were reported near the center of
            the storm, a feature typical of tropical storms.
    In 1988 High pressure in the Pacific Northwest and low pressure
            in the southwestern U.S. combined to produced high winds
            from Utah to California.  Winds gusting to 70 mph in the
            San Francisco area left nearly 300,000 residents without
            electricity.  Winds in Utah gusted to 105 mph at
            Centerville.
    In 1989 A couple of low pressure systems spread heavy snow across
            the northeastern U.S.  Up to two feet of snow was
            reported along Lake Erie in northeastern Ohio, and up to
            ten inches was reported in Connecticut.  Heavy snow
            squalls developed over Michigan for the third day in a
            row.  Three Oaks MI reported 25 inches of snow in two
            days.  Twenty-six cities in the north central U.S.
            reported record low temperatures for the date.  The low
            of 10 degrees below zero at Wichita KS was a December
            record for that location.
    In 2001 (15th-16th) Torrential thunderstorm rains brought severe
            flooding to Arkansas and surrounding states. River Flood
            Warnings were issued for many rivers across the state;
            some rivers experienced their worst flooding in 40 years.
            Storm totals ranged from around an inch in southeast
            Arkansas (which had severe flooding just weeks earlier),
            to over 7 inches of rain in portions of north and west
            Arkansas.
    In 2005 While Houston, TX got over 5 1/2 inches of rain in some
            areas, causing widespread flooding...a major ice storm
            affected areas from Georgia, through the Carolinas, into
            Virginia, and the northeast U.S. More than 700,000 homes
            and businesses were without power from the storm. At least
            four deaths were blamed on the storm...including a 58 year
            old man in suburban Charlotte, who was lying on a couch in
            his living room when a 100-foot tree buckled from heavy ice,
            and crushed him. Two men were killed in Maryland and another
            died in Georgia, each after losing control of his vehicle in
            separate accidents. Widespread accidents occured around the
            Atlanta metro area. In the southwestern North Carolina areas
            of Saluda and Flat Rock, ice accumulated up to 3/4 of an
            inch. Virginia Tech University had to delay its graduation
            ceremonies because of the storm.

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