Subj : Todays Weather History
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Mon Jul 17 2023 00:01:57

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

 Today is Monday  July 17, 2023.
 This is the 198th day of the year, there are 167 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 1934 One of the worst heat waves in the history of the nation
            commenced.  During the last two weeks of the month
            extreme heat claimed 679 lives in Michigan, including
            300 in Detroit alone.
    In 1941 A prolonged heat wave over Washington State finally came
            to an end.  Lightning from untimely thunderstorms was
            responsible for 598 forest fires.
    In 1952 Thunderstorms helped the temperature at Key West FL to dip
            to 69 degrees, to equal their July record established on
            the first of July in 1923.
    In 1957 On a warm and sunny day at Wilmington DE, with a high of
            86 degrees, a dust devil suddenly appeared.  It tore most
            the roof off one house, and stripped shingles from a
            neighboring house.  A TV aerial was toppled, and clothes
            were blown off clothes lines.
    In 1987 Slow moving thunderstorms caused flooding on the
            Guadalupe River in Texas resulting in tragic loss of
            life.  A bus and van leaving a summer youth camp stalled
            near the rapidly rising river, just west of the town of
            Comfort, and a powerful surge of water swept away
            43 persons, mostly teenagers.  Ten drowned in the flood-
            waters.  Most of the others were rescued from tree tops
            by helicopter.
    In 1988 A dozen cities in the eastern U.S., and six others in
            California, reported record high temperatures for the
            date.  Downtown San Francisco CA, with a high of
            103 degrees, obliterated their previous record high
            of 82 degrees.  Philadelphia PA reported a record five
            straight days of 100 degree heat, and Baltimore MD
            reported a record eight days of 100 degree weather for
            the year.  Afternoon and evening thunderstorms produced
            severe weather along the Middle Atlantic Coast, and over
            southern New England.
    In 1989 Thunderstorms produced severe weather from South Dakota
            to Lousiana, with 126 reports of large hail and damaging
            winds during the day and night.  Thunderstorms in
            Nebraska produced hail four inches in diameter in
            Frontier County, and at North Platte, causing millions of
            dollars damage to crops in Frontier County.
            Thunderstorms in Oklahoma produced wind gusts to 90 mph
            at Peggs.  Tahlequah OK was drenched with 5.25 inches of
            rain.
    In 2010 A tornado struck Mayagues, Puerto Rico, causing injuries,
            damage, and power outages.
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