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On This Day In Weather History – February 10
Topic Started: February 10 2011, 07:31 PM (239 Views)
Mark (IWO)
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Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history:

60 – St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta
1899 – -39°F (-39°C), Milligan, Ohio (state lowest record temperature)
1933 – -54°F (-48°C), Seneca, Oregon (state record)
1959 – Tornado in St Louis kills 19 & injures 265
1961 – Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power
1970 – Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, & German youths (Val d’Isere, France)
1973 – A major snowstorm struck the southeastern U.S. It produced as much as 18 inches in Georgia, and up to two feet of snow in South Carolina
1978 – As much as eight inches of rain drenched southern California resulting in widespread flooding and mudslides.
1997 - Comet Shoemaker-Holt 2 Closest Approach to Earth (1.9245 AU)
The coldest winter you will ever experience is a summer in West Clare.
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