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On This Day In Weather History – February 11
Topic Started: February 11 2011, 06:42 PM (349 Views)
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1899 - Perhaps the greatest of all arctic outbreaks commenced on this date. The temperature plunged to 61 degrees below zero in Montana. At the same time a "Great Eastern Blizzard" left a blanket of snow from Georgia to New Hampshire. The state of Virginia took the brunt of the storm, with snowfall totals averaging 30 to 40 inches.
1937 - 460 people were killed, and 1,610,000 people are left homeless by devastating floods across the USA.
1952 - A series of deadly avalanches begin in Europe following a 10-day snowstorm. The worst affected country is Austria where an avalanche crashed down on the ski resort in Melkoede. Twenty people, almost all German tourists, are killed at the resort and another 10 are seriously injured.
1970 - Japan launches Oshumi, its first satellite, and it had made a complete revolution around the earth.
1983 - 4th largest snowfall in New York City history 18"(46 cm)
1987 - Denver, Colorado, reported only their third occurrence of record of a thunderstorm in February. Ten cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. Huron SD reported February temperatures averaging 19 degrees above normal. Williston ND reported readings averaging 24 degrees above normal for the month.
1997 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
2006 - What has become known as the Blizzard of 2006 started on the evening of February 11th, 2006. Heavy snow fell across the northeastern United States from Virginia to Maine through to the evening of February 12th. Its last falls were in eastern Canada on February 13th. Cities from Baltimore to Boston received at least a foot of snow, and 26.9 inches was recorded in New York City. This was the heaviest snow recorded since about 1869 (when records began).
2008 - Europe's space laboratory, Columbus, docks with the International Space Station. The Columbus was delivered to the Space Station by the US space shuttle Atlantis.
2009 - Parts of southern Britain are hit by flooding in the wake of a storm which unleashes heavy rain, strong winds and snow.
2010 - Afghan officials remove 150 bodies of people killed by avalanches in the Salang Pass in the Hindu Kush mountains earlier in the week
The coldest winter you will ever experience is a summer in West Clare.
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