March 3, 2003 – A day to remind us how big the USA is. Miami reached a high temperature of 90 degrees, the earliest observed 90 degree temperature since 1964. Meanwhile Marquette, MI, dropped to 30 degrees below zero, the lowest March temperature that had ever recorded in the city.
March 3, 1988 – A small but intense low pressure system roared across west central Mississippi at 90 mph early in the morning. A tornado in southern Mississippi picked up an automobile, carried it 150 feet, and tossed it through the brick wall of an unoccupied retirement home.
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