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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 Saturday  December 23, 2006.
 This is the 357th day of the year, there are 8 days left.

 On this day...
    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.

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