March 1, 1910 – Indianapolis recorded .02 inches of rain. And then there was only .05 inches the rest of the month. That made March 1910 the driest month on record for the city. March 1, 1910 – A deadly avalanche struck in the mountains near Wellington Station WA, killing 100 people. The avalanche swept […]
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February 26, 1987 – Heavy snow fell in the southwest. There was 62 inches at Purgatory Colorado (well named for the date.) Lander Wyoming received four inches in one hour. In Fairplay Colorado there was reported 43 inches of snow, with drifts ten feet high. February 26, 1910 – Over 129 inches of snow fell […]
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February 22, 1971 – A tornado near Greensburg IN caused damage along an intermittent path of 10 miles. It overturned an airplane at the Greensburg Airport. February 22, 1986 – Almost two weeks of heavy rain and snow finally ended in northern and central California. There was widespread flooding and mudslides across northern and central […]
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February 17, 1936 – It fell to 58 below in McIntosh South Dakota, the all time record for the state. February 17, 1958 – A huge snow storm struck the northeastern US. It was one of the biggest of the 20th century. Boston Airport got 19 inches of snow in 24 hours. DC got 14 […]
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February 16, 2006 – A tornado stuck the Hulman Field Airport in Terre Haute, damaging several buildings. February 16, 1989 – At least your joints wouldn’t hurt. A deep arctic high pressure system produced all-time record high barometric pressure readings of 31.08 inches at Duluth MN, 30.97 inches at Chicago IL and 30.94 inches at […]
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February 13, 1889 – Coldest temp ever in Florida, as Tallahassee dropped to -2. BTW: the coldest temp ever in Miami was 30. Snow’s only been recorded there once, officially. Flurries were noted on January 19, 1977 (ah, those late 70s winters!) Area observers reported seeing flurries again on January 9, 2010. Today In Weather […]
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As we’ve seen this year, Alaska isn’t always uniformly cold in Winter. February 12, 1989 – The low was 24 in Anchorage and 25 in Fairbanks. That same morning the low was close to that in Tallahassee, Flordia: 28 degrees. Of course, Tallahassee went on to a high of 71 later in the day. The […]
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Snow is on the way to NYC again, but not THIS much… February 11, 2006 – The Big Apple got some Big Snow, a record one-day total of 26.9 inches in Central Park. Snowfall records were also broken in Philly and Allentown, Pennsylvania, Bridgeport and Hartford, Connecticut, Newark, New Jersey, and Worchester and Boston, Massachusetts. […]
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February 10, 1871 – Most of the weather records I reference these days start here. It’s the first day of official Weather Bureau records for Indy. There wasn’t any precipitation, and the high was 28. The low? They didn’t start recording it until the beginning of March. Can’t say I blame them. February 10, 1973 […]
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February 9, 1870 – The National Weather Service we know today started when President Ulysses S. Grant signed a joint resolution of Congress requiring the Secretary of War “to provide for taking meteorological observations at the military stations in the interior of the continent and at other points in the States and Territories . . […]
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Remember the recent chaos when Atlanta got a little snow? Imagine snow coming down…in Malibu. February 8, 1989 – A winter storm struck Cali, producing snow from Palm Springs to the beaches of Malibu. It created huge headaches on LA’s famous freeways. Sixteen cities in the western U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date. […]
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This is the anniversary of the OTHER Blizzard of ’78. February 7, 1978 – The worst winter storm of record struck coastal New England. The storm produced 27.5 inches of snow at Boston, and nearly 50 inches in northeastern Rhode Island. The fourteen foot tide at Portland ME was probably the highest of the century. […]
