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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 Thursday  August 10, 2006.
 This is the 222nd day of the year, there are 143 days left.

 On this day...
    In 1856 The Isle Derniere (Last Island) disaster occurred off the
            coast of Louisiana.  A storm tide drowned 140 vacationers
            as a five foot wave swept over Low Island during a
            hurricane.
    In 1882 Sandusky OH noted a four minute snow squall during the
            morning, frost was reported in the suburbs of Chicago,
            and a killing frost was reported at Cresco IA.
    In 1898 The temperature at Pendleton OR climbed all the way to
            119 degrees at set a state record.
    In 1924 Colorado's deadliest tornado killed a woman and nine
            children in one house along its twenty-mile path east
            southeast of Thurman.  Mennonite men had left the farm to
            provide possible aid, as the 200-yard wide storm was
            first seen while far away.
    In 1936 The temperature soared to 114 degrees at Plain Dealing
            LA, and reached 120 degrees at Ozark AR, to establish
            record highs for those two states.
    In 1980 Hurricane Allen came ashore above Brownsville TX dropping
            fifteen inches of rain near San Antonio, and up to 20
            inches in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.  Tidal flooding
            occurred along the South Texas coast.  Hurricane Allen
            packed winds to 150 mph, and also spawned twenty-nine
            tornadoes.  Total damage from the storm was estimated at
            750 million dollars.
    In 1987 Unseasonably hot weather continued in the southeastern
            U.S.  Ten cities in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina
            reported record high temperatures for the date.  Macon GA
            hit 101 degrees.  A tropical depression deluged
            southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana with
            torrential rains.
    In 1988 Citizens of Bluefield WV, where the Chamber of Commerce
            provides free lemonade on days when the temperature warms
            into the 90s, were able to celebrate their record high of
            90 degrees.  Eight other cities also reported record high
            temperatures for the date, including Bismarck ND with a
            reading of 102 degrees.
    In 1989 Thirty-eight cities in the south central and southeastern
            U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date,
            including Asheville NC with a reading of 48 degrees, and
            Victoria TX with a low of 63 degrees.  Oklahoma City OK
            reported a record cool afternoon high of 71 degrees, and
            the daily high of 64 degrees at Raleigh NC established a
            record for August. In Arizona, a record sixty-four day
            streak of 100 degree days at Phoenix came to an end.
    In 2003 (9th-10th) Record heat was observed across much of Europe,
            with the degree high in London the first time that the
            temperature had eclipsed the century mark there. Roth,
            Germany had a record high of 105 degrees.

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