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| Mark (IWO) | February 12 2011, 02:22 PM Post #1 |
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On This Day In Weather History – February 12![]() The site where the Near probe landed, on the asteroid Eros. --- Image by © Ron Sachs/CNP/Sygma/Corbis 1809 - Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England. 1899 - -47°F (-44°C), Camp Clarke, Nebraska (state record) 1909 – New Zealand’s worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SS Penguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes during bad weather at the entrance to Wellington Harbour. 1935 – USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks during a storm 1947 – A meteor creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union. 1958 – Snow blanketed northern Florida, with Tallahassee reporting a record 2.8 inches. A ship in the Gulf of Mexico, 25 miles south of Fort Morgan AL, reported zero visibility in heavy snow on the afternoon of the 12th. 1961 – U.S.S.R. launches Venera 1 towards Venus. 1979 - Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched 1989 – Unseasonably mild weather prevailed across Alaska. Morning lows of 29 degrees at Anchorage and 31 degrees at Fairbanks were actually warmer than those in northern Florida. 1998 – 250-car Italy pile-up due to fog, 4 die and 50 hurt 2001 – The NEAR spacecraft touched down on Eros, completing the first landing on an asteroid. 2002 – An Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154 crashes during bad weather in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119. 2006 – A powerful winter storm blankets the Northeastern United States dumping 1 to 2 feet of snow from Washington DC up to Boston, Massachusetts. The storm dumped a record 26.9 inches of snow in New York City. |
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| Mark (IWO) | February 13 2011, 12:04 PM Post #2 |
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February 13![]() 13 Jan 2001, El Salvador --- Earthquake in El Salvador --- Image by © Bernard Bisson/Sygma/Corbis Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history: 1633 - Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun 1784 - Ice floes blocked the Mississippi River at New Orleans, then passed into the Gulf of Mexico. The only other time this occurred was during the "Great Arctic Outbreak" of 1899. 1905 - -40°F (-40°C) Warsaw, Missouri (state record) 1934 – The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean. 1961 – A 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug. 1978 - State of Emergency declared as major snowstorms hit the North Dakota area 1979 – An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge. 1988 - Strong winds in the wake of a storm in the northeastern U.S., gusting to 60 mph at Oswego NY, produced six foot snow drifts in northeastern Ohio 1989 - A gust of 123 knots (228 km/h) is recorded at the Kinnaird Lighthouse (Fraserburgh) on the north-east coast of Scotland. This beaks the highest low-level wind speed record for the British Isles. Much higher (unofficial) windspeeds have been recorded on the summit of Cairn Gorm and on Unst in Shetland. 1994 – Bad weather contributes to ship disaster near Ranong, Thailand, kills 200 1997 - Discovery captures Hubble Space Telescope 2001 – An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400. 2004 – The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". |
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| Mark (IWO) | February 16 2011, 01:20 PM Post #3 |
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On This Day In Weather History – February 16![]() 1907 - Ernest Shackleton and Members of the British Antarctic Expedition on the Nimrod - Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history: 374 – 9th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet 1698 – Birth of Pierre Bouguer, a French geophysicist, geodesist and astronomer 1822 – Birth of Sir Francis Galton, English explorer and biologist 1840 – American Charles Wilkes discovers Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica 1874 – Birth in Kilkea, Co. Kildare of Antarctic explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton 1881 – Lowest temperature ever recorded in Ireland (-19.1C, at Markree, County Sligo). 1899 – Washington D.C. received 1.26 inches of rain in six hours atop a snow cover more than 30 inches deep making it the soggiest day of record. 1903 – -59°F (-51°C), Pokegama Dam, Minnesota (state record) 1943 – -32°F (-36°C), Falls Village, Connecticut (state record) 1961 – 1st all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island, Va 1962 – Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people. 1962 – South Yorkshire (Northern England). The city experienced winds of at least 65 knots with reported gusts of 80 knots (150 km/h) or more. These high wind speeds were very localised on the city area, possibly due to extreme lee-wave enhancement of the airflow downwind of the Pennines 1965 - Pegasus 1 launched to detect micro-meteors 1983 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75. 1990 – Strong thunderstorms developing ahead of an arctic cold front produced severe weather across the southeastern U.S. between mid morning on the 15th and early evening on the 16th. Thunderstorms spawned thirteen tornadoes, including one which, prior to dawn on the 16th, injured eleven persons near Carrollton GA. 1994 – 6.5 earthquake strikes SE Sumatra, kills 200 1998 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in poor weather in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and six more on the ground. 2005 – The Kyoto global warming pact, which the U.S. never ratified, went into effect. |
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| Patrick (IWO) | February 16 2011, 02:21 PM Post #4 |
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The 16th February 1916 brought a major Atlantic windstorm to many parts of northern Europe. ![]() Below is an extract from 'Historic Storms of the North Sea, British Isle and Northwest Europe' by Hubert Lamb. Area: Ireland, England, North Sea & Baltic coasts. Observations: Accounts are rather sparse because the war inhibited publication at the time. Strong W'ly gales were reported from early on the 16th, with force 9 at 8h already on the Dutch & Belgian coast and in northern Ireland. By evening (19h) on that day the wind was WSW force 9 in Hamburg and Beaufort force 10 from about W on the North Sea Coast of Friesland and Esbjerg in Jutland. Force 8 gales were still blowing at exposed points off the coasts of northen Ireland, Wales and south-west England. Meteorology: Winds over the British Isles-North Sea regions were generally W'ly all through that winter. On the 15th the main low pressure centre was over Iceland (about 970mb) - roughtly where it had been already for three days - and a small secondary depression (lowest pressure about 990mb) derived from a frontal wave disturbance which had formed in the mid-Atlantic near 50 degress N on the 13th - 14th passed east across England and Europe near 51 degrees N during the day., while a trough of low pressure extending from Iceland gradually produced a centre over southern Sweden and later the Baltic ner 58 degrees N. On the 16th a frontal cyclone with a well-marked warm sector over the North Sea and its centre (970mb) at 8h near the northeast coast of Scotland was deepening as it moved ESE'wards the North Sea. That evening it was close to Jutland (959mb) and moved in across Denmark and south Sweden overnight with little change of depth and accompanied by strong gale to storm force winds on its southern side. The gradient wind indicated after allowing for the cyclonic curvature of the winds's path is close to 100 knots. Effects: Flooding on the German and Danish North Sea Coasts. On the coast of Schleswig-Holstein this flood was almost as high as in the 1825 storm. Extracted from: Lamb, HH. 'Historic Storms of the North Sea, British Isle and Northwest Europe' Cambridge University Press. 1991. p154-155 |
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| Mark (IWO) | February 16 2011, 02:30 PM Post #5 |
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HISTORY 95 Years On From The 1916 Wind Storm http://www.irishweatheronline.com/weather-history/history-95-years-on-from-the-1916-wind-storm.html |
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| Mark (IWO) | February 23 2011, 12:09 PM Post #6 |
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On This Day In Weather History – February 23![]() 23 Feb 1999, Galtuer, Austria --- Avalanche destroys cars and traps 2500 at ski resort --- Image by © Hbf/Lechner/epa/Corbis Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history: 1802 – A great snowstorm raged along the New England coast producing 48 inches of snow north of Boston. Three large ships from Salem were wrecked along Cape Cod. 1887 – The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000. 1900 – Steamer “Rio de Janeiro” sinks in San Francisco Bay 1987 - The light from supernova 1987A ( a gigantic exploding star ) began reaching Earth today, it is estimated that the explosion occurred some 170,000 years ago and nearly 1 million trillion miles from Earth. 1989 – Nineteen cities in the central U.S. reported new record low temperatures for the date 1998 – In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42. 1999 – An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31. 2008 – A strong European windstorm, Zizi hit Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. There were no fatalities or injuries. The gusts reached 135 km/h in Germany and more than 100 km/h in other countries. You may copy, transmit, download, reproduce, broadcast, display, or publish the above information subject to crediting Irish Weather Online for same. |
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| Mark (IWO) | February 24 2011, 11:35 AM Post #7 |
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![]() April 1898, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA - John Holland Standing in Submarine Turret - Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history: 1841 – John Philip Holland, inventor and developer of the modern submarine, born in Liscannor, Co. Clare 1852 – The Susquehanna River ice bridge at Havre de Grace, MD, commenced to break up after forty days of use. A total of 1738 loaded freight cars were hauled along rails laid on the ice. 1936 – Vermont and New Hampshire received brown snow due to dust from storms in the Great Plains Region. A muddy rain fell across parts of northern New York State. 1955 – Deep snow and freezing temperatures continue to cause havoc across much of Britain and Ireland leaving many parts cut off from essential supplies. In England, hundreds of vehicles have been abandoned in snowdrifts as high as 30ft (9m). 1961 – Explorer (10) fails to reach Earth orbit 1965 – U.S.S.R. launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test) 1970 – 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland) 1981 – An earthquake registering 6.7 on the Richter scale hits Athens, killing 16 people and destroying buildings in several towns west of the city. 1987 – A massive winter storm began to overspread the western U.S. In southern California, Big Bear was blanketed with 17 inches of snow, and Lake Hughes reported four inches of snow in just one hour. 1999 – An avalanche in the Austrian Alps buries homes and kills 13 people in Valzur 2006 – NASA said 2005 was the warmest year in more than a century of record-keeping. |
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| Mark (IWO) | February 25 2011, 12:07 PM Post #8 |
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On This Day In Weather History – February 25![]() Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history: 1922 – The temperature at Los Angeles, CA, soared to 92 degrees to establish a record for the month of February. 1989 – Thirteen cities in Florida reported record low temperatures for the date, including Jacksonville with a reading of 24 degrees. Severe cold in Florida claimed three lives, and resulted in 250 to 300 million dollars crop damage. 1947 – The worst snow blizzard in living memory hits Ireland 1964 – Turbulence brings down Eastern Air Lines Flight 304 in Louisiana’s Lake Pontchartrain, killing all 51 passengers and 7 crew. 2005 – Spain is hitwith snow and freezing temperatures. 2010 – A severe winter storm hits the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions of the United States 2010 – 60 knot winds off the West coast of Ireland (see video from 25 Feb 2010 below) |
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| Mark (IWO) | February 26 2011, 11:37 AM Post #9 |
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On This Day In Weather History – February 26![]() 26 Feb 1972, Bacco, West Virginia, USA --- In the middle of this small coal mining community was a row of houses. But Buffalo Creek wiped them out when a slag dam upstream gave way on Saturaday, sending a cascade of water pouring down this "hollow" in southwestern West Virginia. Between 80-90 people living in the valley were feared dead. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history: 1910 – Parts of Washington State were in the midst of a storm which produced 129 inches of snow at Laconia between the 24th and the 26th, a single storm record for the state 1919 - Congress established Grand Canyon National Park which includes the Grand Canyon, a gorge of the Colorado River, considered to be one of the major natural wonders of the world in Arizona. 1935 – The Daventry Experiment, Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of RADAR in the United Kingdom 1938 – 1st passenger ship equipped with radar 1960 – A New York bound Alitalia airliner crashed into a cemetery at Shannon, Ireland, shortly after takeoff, killing 34 of the 52 persons on board. 1966 – Apollo Program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket 1972 – The Buffalo Creek Flood caused by a burst dam kills 125 in West Virginia. 1987 – NASA launches GEOS-H 1988 – Eight cities in the central and western U.S. reported new record high temperatures for the date, including Lamoni IA with a reading of 67 degrees 1989 – Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (95.5 hPa) 1990 – Unseasonably cold weather followed in the wake of the winter storm in the northeastern U.S. Ten cities reported record low temperatures for the date, including Syracuse NY with a reading of 10 degrees below zero. 1998 - Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean (4m09) 2000 – Mount Hekla in Iceland erupts. 2001 – Blizzards, gale force winds and driving hail sweep Ireland, leaving many householders without electricity or heat. |
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| Mark (IWO) | February 27 2011, 04:49 PM Post #10 |
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On This Day In Weather History – February 27![]() 27 Feb 2001, Carlops, Borders, Scotland Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history: 837 – 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet 1717 – What was perhaps the greatest snow in New England history commenced on this date. During a ten day period a series of four snowstorms dumped three feet of snow upon Boston, and the city was snowbound for two weeks. Up to six feet of snow was reported farther to the north, and drifts covered many one story homes 1969 – A record snowstorm in Maine came to an end. Two to four feet of snow buried southern and central Maine, with a state record of 57 inches reported at West Fork 2001 – Blizzard conditions bring parts of Leinster to a standstill; all flights are cancelled at Dublin Airport and many roads are left impassable after heavy falls of snow 2008 - The biggest earthquake ( 5.2 magnitude ) in the UK for nearly 25 years shakes homes in Newcastle, Yorkshire, London, Cumbria, the Midlands, Norfolk and also parts of Wales. The epicentre of the quake was near Market Rasen in Lincolnshire 2010 – Central Chile is hit by an 8.8 magnitude earthquake. 2010 – A violent windstorm crosses Western Europe (see below). It reaches a minimum pressure of 967 mb on 27 February |
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| Mark (IWO) | February 28 2011, 12:20 PM Post #11 |
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On This Day In Weather History – February 28![]() 28 Feb 2001, Earthquake Shakes Seattle Causes $1 Billion in Damage - Image by © Peter Yates/Corbis Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history: 1900 - A massive storm spread record snows from Kansas to New York State. Snowfall totals rangeD up to 17.5 inches at Springfield IL and 43 inches at Rochester NY 1928 – C.V. Raman discovered Raman effect 1958 – A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River. The driver and 26 children die in what remains the worst school bus accident in U.S. history. 1959 – Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object to achieve a polar orbit, is launched. 1987 - A powerful storm produced severe thunderstorms in Louisiana and Mississippi early in the day. About mid morning a monstrous tornado touched down near Moselle MS and grew to a width of two miles. The tornado travelled a distance of 40 miles killing six persons, injuring 350 others, and causing 28.5 million dollars damage. The tornado swept homes right off their foundations, and tossed eighteen wheel trucks about like toys. 1990 – US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) launches into orbit 1997 – An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 in Armenia and Azerbaijan kills around 1,100 people 1997 – Earthquake in Pakistan, kills 45 1997 – An earthquake in northern Iran is responsible for about 3,000 deaths. 1997 – GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way 2001 – Ireland’s international friendly match with Denmark is postponed due to snow and frost on the terraces at Lansdowne Road 2001 – The Nisqually Earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale hits the Nisqually Valley and the Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia area of the U.S. state of Washington. 2007 – Jupiter flyby of the New Horizons Pluto-observer spacecraft. Xynthia Xynthia 2010 - The Severe storm “Xynthia” (left) lashes may parts of Europe including parts of Spain, Portugal and France. ![]() You may copy, transmit, download, reproduce, broadcast, display, or publish the above information subject to crediting Irish Weather Online for same. |
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| Mark (IWO) | March 1 2011, 12:09 PM Post #12 |
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On This Day In Weather History – March 1![]() Avalanche and Train wreck at Wellington, Washington. March 1, 1910 Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history: 1872 – Yellowstone National Park is established as the world’s first national park. 1878 – First winter ascent of Aneto in the Pyrenees 1910 – The worst avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people. 1914 – High winds and heavy snow crippled New Jersey and New York State. Two feet of snow were reported at Ashbury Park, and at New York City the barometric pressure dropped to a record 28.38 inches. 1936 – The Hoover Dam is completed. 1964 – Villarrica Volcano in Chile begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe. 1966 – Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet’s surface 1980 – An unusually large Florida tornado, 500 yards in width at times, killed one person and caused six million dollars damage near Fort Lauderdale. 1983 - A ferocious storm battered the US Pacific coast. The storm produced heavy rain and gale force winds resulting in flooding and beach erosion, and in the mountains produced up to seven feet of snow in five days 1988 – Thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds in north central Texas. Baseball size hail was reported 2002 – The possibility of water still existing on Mars was made known. According to NASA, a spacecraft called Odyssey had detected it on this planet. 2007 – Tornadoes swarm across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths were at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama. 2007 – An Inuit delegation has arrived in Washington to argue that the U.S. government’s climate change policies are a violation of their human rights. A legal petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has demanded that the U.S. limits its emission of greenhouse gases. |
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| Mark (IWO) | March 2 2011, 01:57 PM Post #13 |
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On This Day In Weather History – March 2![]() 1958, South Pole, Antarctic - Dr. Vivian Fuchs' trans-antarctic expedition (background) approaches a greeting party two miles from the South Pole station, with Old Glory waving in the breeze. The group included rear Admiral George Dupek, Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history: 1846 – A great storm hit Virginia and the Carolinas. 1862 – Birth in St. Petersburg of Prince Boris Borisovich Galitzine, the prominent Russian physicist who invented the first electromagnetic seismograph in 1906 1927 – Raleigh, North Carolina, was buried under 17.8 inches of snow in 24 hours, a record for that location 1958 – The overland Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by British explorer Dr Vivian Fuchs, completes the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole having completed the historic crossing of 3,473 km (2,158 miles) of previously unexplored snow and ice in 99 days. 1968 - USSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit 1985 – A massive winter storm struck the Northern Plains Region of the USA. The storm produced up to 33 inches of snow in northeastern South Dakota 1988 – Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the south central U.S. A tornado at Baton Rouge LA injured two persons 1998 – Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter’s moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice. 2009 – Heavy snow falls on the eastern coast of the United States, and results in the severe disruption of national and international flights. |
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| Mark (IWO) | March 3 2011, 01:30 PM Post #14 |
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On This Day In Weather History – March 3 Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history: ![]() Saharan desert dust blows from northwest Africa a thousand miles or more out over the Atlantic Ocean 1896 - The temperature in downtown San Francisco, CA fell to 33°, which was the lowest ever for the city in March 1915 – NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded. 1960 – 9th largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5″) 1966 – A tornado hit Jackson, Mississippi, killing 54 1969 – Apollo 9 was launched on a mission to test the lunar module that was used in the moon landings. 1980 – A coastal storm produced 25 inches of snow at Elizabeth City, North Carolina, USA 1985 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless. 2000 – Saharan desert dust blows from northwest Africa a thousand miles or more out over the Atlantic Ocean 2008 – Snow falls in various parts of Ulster (see below video) |
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| Mark (IWO) | March 4 2011, 11:12 AM Post #15 |
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On This Day In Weather History – March 4 Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history: 1899 – Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39 ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) inland, killing over 300. 1909 – Though fair weather was forecast, President Taft was inaugurated amidst a furious storm. The storm drew much criticism against the U.S. Weather Bureau. 1918 – The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic. 1921 – Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas 1923 – Birth of Sir Patrick Moore, broadcaster, astronomer and curate at the Armagh Observatory 1930 – Terrible floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounds in south-west France, resulting in twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people. 1953 – Snow was reported on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. 1966 – A severe blizzard raged across Minnesota and North Dakota. The blizzard lasted four days producing up to 35 inches of snow, and wind gusting to 100 mph produced snow drifts 30 to 40 feet high. 1968 – Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched 1977 – The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500. 1979 – US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter’s rings 1986 – The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Comet Halley and the first images ever of its nucleus. 1989 – Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the Lower Mississippi Valley. 1994 - Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit |
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| Mark (IWO) | March 5 2011, 11:13 AM Post #16 |
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On This Day In Weather History – March 5 Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history: 1651 – South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm 1948 – One of the worst British blizzards of the 20th century occurred. Food supplies were affected by the snow-bound roads and in some places the police requested permission to break into delivery lorries stranded by the snow. 1958 – The Explorer 2 spacecraft launches and fails to reach Earth orbit. 1960 – Eastern Massachusetts greatest March snowstorm of record began to abate. The storm produced record 24 hour snowfall totals of 27.2 inches at Blue Hill Observatory 1962 – A tremendous storm raged along the Atlantic coast. The great Atlantic storm caused more than 200 million dollars property damage from Florida to New England. 1963 – Singer Patsy Cline dies when her plane crashes during severe weather near Camden, Tennessee. 1966 – 75 MPH air currents causes BOAC 707 crash into Mount Fuji, 124 die 1968 – US launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun 1980 – Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49 1982 – The Soviet probe Venera 14 arrives at the planet Venus. 1987 – A storm in the western U.S. produced heavy rain and high winds in California. Up to six inches of rain soaked the San Francisco Bay area in 24 hours. 1989 – Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the southeastern U.S. A strong (F-2) tornado killed one person and injured six others in Heard County GA. A strong (F-3) tornado injured 23 persons and caused more than five million dollars damage around Grantville GA. |
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| Mark (IWO) | March 7 2011, 01:56 PM Post #17 |
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On This Day In Weather History – March 7![]() MELBOURNE, Australia - A huge storm hits Flemington racecourse - Image by © DAVID CROSLING/epa/Corbis Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history: 1872 - A cold wave hit the East coast sending the mercury plunging to 8 degrees below zero at Boston. It was the most severe March cold wave in modern history. 1900 - A chinook wind blowing down the slopes of the Rockies through Havre MT raised the temperature 31 degrees in just three minutes. 1906 - Heavy storm bursts dike flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands 1941 - 3rd largest snowfall in NYC history (18.1") 1954 - Florida received its greatest modern-day snowfall of record, with 4.0 inches at the Milton Experimental Station. 1967 - The UK's strongest gust on record occurred as a gust to 144 mph was reported at Cairngorm, Scotland. 1971 - Italy's coldest night on record occurred as the temperature dropped to -30° at Palteau Roas, Italy elevation 11,443 feet. 1973 - Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory 1986 – Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor. 1987 - Forty-five cities in the north central and northeastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. Huron SD hit 80 degree 1988 - Cyclone Bola hits New Zealand and the small Island of Fiji with torrential rains causing significant flooding and landslides. 1989 - Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, NW North America, Greenland) 1990 - A major ice storm left much of Iowa under a thick coat of ice. It was the worst ice storm in at least twenty-five years for Iowa, perhaps the worst of the century 1996 - 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope) 2005 - Heavy rainfall produced flooding in the Saharan desert region of Algeria causing 2 deaths and 9 injuries. 2009 – The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched. 2010 - A severe storm passes directly over Greater Melbourne, bringing lightning, flash flooding, very large hail and strong winds to the state's capital leading to flash flooding |
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| Mark (IWO) | March 8 2011, 12:55 PM Post #18 |
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March 8 Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history: 1717 - On Fishers Island in Long Island Sound, 1200 sheep were discovered to have been buried under a snow drift for four weeks. When finally uncovered, one hundred sheep were still alive 1909 - The town of Brinkley in Arkansas was struck by a tornado which killed 49 persons and caused 600,000 dollars damage. 1947 - Drifts of snow, some 15 feet deep were recorded in Cavan, the Anglo Celt newspaper reports 1976 - 1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China 1987 - Thirty-two cities in the eastern U.S. reported new record high temperatures for the date, including Madison WI with a reading of 71 degrees. 1995 - 44°F (-42.2°C) in Chosedacharad, Komi-district on 67°N 2004 - Cyclone Gafilo raged across northeast Madagascar producing winds of 145 mph 2010 - Heavy snowfall in Spain on 8 March left 220,000 people in an around the Catalonian city of Girona without electricity following a fault with a high tension power cable. The adverse weather also cut off railway lines and roads, while Spain's border with France at La Junquera was closed |
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| Mark (IWO) | March 9 2011, 11:48 AM Post #19 |
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March 9 is the 68th day of the year (69th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 297 days remaining until the end of the year.![]() 09 Mar 2001, Milota, Hungary --- An elderly woman pushes her bicycle away from her flooded house and the swollen Tisza river, Hungary --- Image by © Tibor Olah/epa/Corbis Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history: 1891 – On this date through the 13th, a blizzard struck southern England and Wales with gale force winds. 220 people were killed; 65 ships foundered in the English Channel and 6,000 sheep died 1936 – Two major rainstorms combined with melting snow caused severe flooding in New England, USA. $100 million dollars in damage resulted. 24 people were killed. 1956 – A whopping 367 inches of snow was measured on the ground at the Ranier Paradise Ranger Station in Washington. The snow depth was a state record and the second highest total of record for the continental U.S 1957 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu. 1959 – 1st known radar contact is made with Venus 1986 – Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley’s Comet at 8,030 km 1995 – Scientists discovered that reflected sunlight off a full moon actually causes the Earth to be warmed by an amount equal to 0.09°. 1997 – Comet Hale-Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day. 2001 – The rain-swollen Tisza River at Zahony, Hungary reached its highest level in 100 years peaking at 25 feet. 20 villages are evacuated and more than 30,000 individuals fled their homes. 2002 – A powerful wind storm blasted across southern Ontario Canada. Wind gusts to 86 mph snapped tree branches, toppled signs, and caused power outages and accidents. 2006 – Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn. |
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| Mark (IWO) | March 10 2011, 12:27 PM Post #20 |
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March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 296 days remaining until the end of the year. Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history: 1902 - Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri 1911 - The coldest temperature ever was recorded on the island of Puerto Rico as the town of Aibonito, elevation 1,998 feet dropped to 40°F 1933 – An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 115 people and causes an estimated $40 million dollars in damage. 1977 – Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus. 1988 - An avalanche hit the British royal party including Prince Charles as they were ski-ing off piste above the resort of Klosters in Switzerland . The Prince and several other members of the party, including their guide, were able to ski to safety, but the one of the Prince's closest friends Major Hugh Lindsay, former equerry to the Queen is not so lucky. 1989 - Thirty-four cities in the central and southwestern U.S. reported new record high temperatures for the date. The high of 85 degrees at Hanksville Utah was a record for March. 2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars. 2008 - An Atlantic storm smashed Southern Britain, North West France and Northern Spain last Monday. Two people were killed, a fishing trawler sank in the English Channel, a cargo vessel was blown aground on the French coast, with another going up on the rocks in Northern Spain and breaking in three. You may copy, transmit, download, reproduce, broadcast, display, or publish the above information subject to crediting Irish Weather Online for same. |
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| Mark (IWO) | March 15 2011, 11:56 AM Post #21 |
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![]() Cyclone Indlala came ashore on the island of Madagascar on March 15, 2007, as a Category 3 storm, according to data provided by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. The storm was the country’s sixth hit of the 2006-2007 storm season. This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite shows Indlala draped over the northern part of the island. Bands of swirling clouds spiral around the eye of the storm. Image NASA March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 291 days remaining until the end of the year. Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history: 1930 - A rare tornado struck the Los Angeles area in California, moving from the coast through the community of Hawthorne. 1941 - The most severe blizzard in modern history struck North Dakota and Minnesota. The blizzard hit on a Saturday night while many are travelling, and thus claimed 151 lives. 1965 - Three artificial satellites were launched by the Soviet Union. These unmanned objects were reported as revolving around the earth approximately once every 106 minutes. 1980 - An F3 tornado hit Ada, Oklahoma killing one person and injuring 36 at a mobile home park 1988 - More than one hundred hours of continuous snow finally came to an end at Marquette in Michigan, during which time the city was buried under 43 inches of snow 1994 - 9 inches of snow on this day brought the seasonal snowfall total at Binghamton, NY to 123.2 inches, the city's snowiest winter ever. 1999 - Pluto again officially becomes the solar system’s outermost planet 2002 - A huge thunderstorm occurred over the River Plate Estuary on the Argentina/Uruguay border. In Montevideo 4.18 inches of rain fell in less than 24 hours; most within 12 hours. 2003 – 4.10 inches of rain fell in Los Angeles, their second greatest daily rainfall total for March. 2007 - Tropical Cyclone Indlala made landfall along the island of Madagascar's northeastern coast just south of Antalaha. The category 4 storm packed maximum sustained winds near 120 mph. 2010 – The Irish Times reports that the Shamrock was “hit hard” by the severe winter weather and “won’t be easily found” this week. Dr Declan Doogue of the Royal Irish Academy said the shamrock was “only getting going” because, like other plants, its growing season had been “delayed by frost damage” You may copy, transmit, download, reproduce, broadcast, display, or publish the above information subject to crediting Irish Weather Online for same. |
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| Mark (IWO) | March 16 2011, 11:59 AM Post #22 |
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March 16 March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 290 days remaining until the end of the year. Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history: 1843 - A great snowstorm affected areas of the United States from the Gulf of Mexico to Maine 1885 – Between the 16th and 21st of March, Pointe-des-Monts in Quebec Canada received 98 inches of snowfall. 1942 - Two tornadoes, 24 minutes apart, struck Baldwin, Mississippi, resulting in 65 deaths 1947 - Winds reaching 50 knots (90 km/h), gusting to 90 knots (200 km/h), cause breaches in dykes in East Anglia, UK, resulting in the flooding of 100 square miles (260 km2) of land 1963 – Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing 11,000 1952 - 1870 mm rain in Cilaos, Reunion (world record) 1975 - A single storm brought 119 inches of snow to Crater Lake, Oregon, USA, establishing a state record 1986 - A small but rare tornado touched down perilously close to Disneyland in Anaheim, California 1987 – Base ball size hailstones caused millions of dollars damage to automobiles at Del Rio in the US State of Texas 1990 - Thunderstorms developing ahead of a cold front produced large hail and damaging winds from northwest Florida to western South Carolina 1999 – The temperature at Valentia in Co Kerry reaches 17c 2005 - A storm surge pushed 33 foot waves, rocks and tons of ice crashing along the Avalon and Baie Verte Peninsulas on the east coast of Newfoundland in Canada, causing millions of dollars in damage. |
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| Mark (IWO) | March 18 2011, 01:37 PM Post #23 |
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March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 288 days remaining until the end of the year. In the old Celtic calendar, today is Sheelah’s Day.![]() 21 Mar 1925, Murphysboro, Illinois, USA --- 3/21/1925-Murphysboro, IL-View of a destroyed schoolroom in Murphysboro, Illinois, where sixty children were caught by a tornado. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history: 1286 – SCOTLAND: King Alexander III of Scotland died when he was blown off a cliff at Inverkeithing, Scotland by a violent easterly gale. 1542 – USA: Hernando de Soto observed the first recorded flood in America (Mississippi River). 1899 – USA: An F4 tornado killed 12 people and injured 30 on a 17 mile track through the US State of Alabama 1899 - Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering 1914 – USA: San Francisco, CA recorded their highest temperature ever in March when the mercury soared to 86°. 1925 – USA: A tornado with a base nearly a mile wide tore a destructive path 219 miles from south-eastern Missouri across Illinois and into south-western Indiana. With 695 killed, it is the deadliest tornado in U.S. history. 1944 – ITALY: The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 and causes thousands to flee their homes. 1947 – UK: On 18 March the River Trent, swollen with the extra water which was prevented from emptying into the sea by a spring tide, burst its banks at Nottingham, reaching first floor height 1952 – REUNION: 151.73 inches of rain fell at Cilaos, La Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean over a five day period to set, then the world rainfall record. This record was broken 2/24-28, 2007 when Commerce La Reunion Island picked up 196.06 inches 1953 – TURKEY: An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 250. 1956 – USA: The 1956 nor’easter was a significant winter storm in the United States that affected the Mid-Atlantic States and southern New England 1965 – Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space. 1967 – UK: The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground in rough seas between Land’s End and the Scilly Isles, leaking oil into the sea. 1971 – PERU: A landslide crashes into Lake Yanahuani, killing 200 at the mining camp of Chungar. 1978 – INDIA: 28 people were killed and 300 injured as a tornado touched down and stayed on the ground for over three miles in the northern suburbs of New Delhi. 1990 – USA: Heavy rain caused extensive flooding of rivers and streams in the US State of Georgia, with total damage running well into the millions. Flooding also claimed six lives. 1995 – IRELAND: Irish and UK newspapers report on the St Patrick’s day tornado that went through Co Meath for 28kms, but petered out before it reached Dublin. 2003 – USA: Denver, Colorado dug out from their second biggest snowstorm in their history. Almost two and a half feet of wet snow over 36 hours shut down the city. You may copy, transmit, download, reproduce, broadcast, display, or publish the above information subject to crediting Irish Weather Online for same. |
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| Mark (IWO) | March 21 2011, 05:07 PM Post #24 |
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March 21 is the 80th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 285 days remaining until the end of the year. Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history: 1801 – USA: The Jefferson Flood hit the Connecticut Valley. The flooding was the greatest since 1692. The Federalists named the flood for the new President, who they blamed for the disaster. 1857 – JAPAN: An earthquake in Tokyo kills over 100,000. 1868 – USA: One of the major snowstorms in Mid Atlantic history dumped 15-20 inches of snow in Philadelphia, PA, 32 inches in 16 hours on Georgetown, DE, and an average 30 inch snow at New York City. 1876 – CANADA: More than 40 inches of snow stopped traffic at Montreal, Quebec Canada 1911 – INDIA: An overnight low of minus 33.9c was recorded at Ladakh, a new record for the country. 1913 – USA: Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio. 1932 – USA: A tornado swarm occurred in the Deep South. Between late afternoon and early the next morning severe thunderstorms spawned 31 tornadoes in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Tennessee. The tornadoes killed 334 persons and injured 1784 others. 1936 – USA: The Connecticut River at Hartford reached its highest stage ever at 37 feet above flood stage during what was called, “The Great New England Flood of 1936”. Before, the river had never reached 30 feet. 1999 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. 2001 – IRELAND: Cold and wet with strong easterly winds. Top temperature at Knock Airport only 2.6c but reached 11.2 at Valentia. 2002 – ECUADOR: heavy rains triggered flooding and landslides leaving 13 people dead and more than 6,000 people homeless. |
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| Mark (IWO) | March 22 2011, 03:23 PM Post #25 |
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![]() Police keep motorists well clear from a tree top that fell on power lines during a violent storm in Perth, Australia, on 22 March 2010. A big clean-up is under way in the city after it was lashed with rain, giant hailstones and high winds on 22 March, causing widespread flooding and damage. EPA/LLOYD JONES AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT March 22 is the 81st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 284 days remaining until the end of the year. Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history: 1859 - ECUADOR: Quito, the site of many powerful earthquakes through the years, suffers one of its worst when a tremor kills 5,000 people and destroys some of the most famous buildings in South America. Following this disaster, Quito was not hit again by a major earthquake until August 1949, when a tremor south of the city killed 6,000 and left 100,000 people homeless. 1893 – USA: The first tornado was recorded in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on this date. It destroyed 14 buildings and injured four people as it passed through the centre of town 1903 – USA: Niagara Falls runs out of water because of a drought. 1936 – USA: A great flood crested on rivers from Ohio to Maine. The flood claimed 107 lives and caused 270 million dollars property damage. 1954 – USA: Six to ten inch rains caused the Chicago River to overflow its banks. 1957 – USA: Earthquake hits San Francisco 1989 – IRELAND: Gales and heavy showers with snow falling in places. Thunderstorms in parts of the north. 1992 – USA: US Air Flight 405 crashes shortly after lift-off from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft. 1995 – RUSSIA: Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in space. 1997 – Comet Hale-Bopp made its closest approach to Earth in the skies over the northern hemisphere. The comet’s next pass is predicted for the year 4397. 2001 – CANADA: A winter storm dumped 8-20 inches of snow on southern Quebec closing many highways 2003 – IRELAND: Daytime temperatures in Dublin struggle to rise above freezing 2006 – UK: Heavy snow fell in parts of Scotland, particularly across northern districts. Strathpeffer, Highland, sustained 23cm of snow 2009 – USA: Mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska begins erupting after a prolonged period of unrest. 2010 - AUSTRALIA: An intense storm cells passed directly over the capital city of Perth between 3:30pm and 5:00pm. It is the costliest natural disaster in Western Australian history, with the damage bill estimated at A$1.08 billion. |
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| Mark (IWO) | March 23 2011, 12:09 PM Post #26 |
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March 23 is the 82nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 283 days remaining until the end of the year. Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history: 1066 - 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. 1765 – USA: A major snowstorm struck the eastern seaboard from Massachusetts inland to Pennsylvania. Reports at the time showed as much as 2.5 feet of snow fell in some locations. 1840 – UK: John William Draper takes first successful photo of the Moon 1913 – USA: A tornado hit the city of Omaha, Nebraska and Iowa killing 115 persons and causing 3.5 million dollars property damage. 1951 – IRELAND: Shannon Airport is the base for a rescue operation after a USAF C124 aircraft crashes into the sea - some wreckage is found 450 miles off the west coast, but all 53 people on board are lost 1972 – CANADA: Halifax, Nova Scotia recorded its wettest March day in history as 3.55 inches of mixed precipitation fell. 1980 – IRELAND: Very cold and windy day with heavy rain in the south and heavy wintry showers elsewhere. Max temperatures between 5c & 7c. 1991 – USA: 20 Tornadoes kill 5 in Tennessee 1999 – AUSTRALIA: Severe Tropical Cyclone Vance devastated the northwest town of Exmouth, producing a measured wind gust of 167 mph, which is the highest wind speed ever recorded on mainland Australia. 2001 – FIJI: The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji. 2002 – IRELAND: At high tide, thirty-nine whales are washed onto Aughcasla Strand, in the Dingle Peninsula. |
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| Mark (IWO) | March 24 2011, 12:02 PM Post #27 |
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![]() 24 Mar 2003, Iraq - Coalition Troops Battle Sandstorms in Iraq - Image © Cheryl Diaz Meyer/Dallas Morning News/Corbis March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 282 days remaining until the end of the year. Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history: 1878 – UK: The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks in heavy snow storm off the Isle of Wight, killing more than 300. 1910 – USA: 83°F (29°C) the highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March. 1912 – USA: Residents of Kansas City began to dig out from a storm produced 25 inches of snow in 24 hours 1930 - Planet Pluto named 1944 – GERMANY: Royal Air Force crews flying bombing missions over Germany encountered the tremendous upper level winds we now know as the Jet Stream. Scientists at the University of Chicago gave the name to the high altitude ribbon of high winds in 1947. 1965 – NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing. 1968 – IRELAND: An Aer Lingus plane, the St. Phelim, crashes into the sea near Tuskar Rock, Co. Wexford, with the loss of all 61 passengers and crew 1972 - Scientists studying rock from different areas of the world have supported the theory that the continents used to be adjoining. As of this date, rocks have been gathered from Nova Scotia, Connecticut, New Jersey, Georgia, and South Carolina. These rocks were scheduled to be compared and contrasted with rocks from Morocco, which is in Africa. 1981 – IRELAND: Very mild day with temperatures reaching 16c in places. 1989 – USA: The Exxon Valdez oil tanker hits a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound, resulting in an enormous oil spill. Though there were no human victims of the crash, hundreds of miles of pristine coastline became coated with oil and thousands of sea birds, mammals and fish perished in the disaster. 1993 – Discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. 1998 – INDIA: A tornado sweeps through Dantan killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others. 2002 – IRELAND: Twenty-one whales are rescued after stranding themselves on a Kerry beach; with the other whales forming a circle around her, rescuers are thrilled to observe one of the whales giving birth minutes after being pulled back out to safety 2002 – ASIA: The worst dust storm in 40 years caused by gale-force winds in the desert areas of Korea of Mongolia and northern China. 2003 – ASIA: A strong storm system crossing the eastern Mediterranean brought significant storms to the Middle East. Strong winds raised severe sandstorms over large portions of Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait, severely affecting U.S. and coalition military operations. 7.29 inches of rain fell in 24 hours in Phuket, Thailand 2003 – IRELAND: Shannon records a maximum daytime temperature of 0c. |
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| Mark (IWO) | March 25 2011, 04:33 PM Post #28 |
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March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 281 days remaining until the end of the year. Some of the weather related events that took place on this day down through history: 1635 – IRELAND: A shower of hailstones, with stones as large as four inches in circumference, is reported in Castletown, Co. Offaly; a hen is killed and a woman is injured 1647 – SOUTH AFRICA: Cape of Good Hope: tour ship Haerlem becomes stranded during bad weather in Tafel Bay 1655 – Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens. 1669 - ITALY: Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000 1901 – USA: More than 20 people were killed by an F3 tornado that moved across parts of Birmingham, AL 1940 – A geomagnetic storm produces aurora throughout the northern hempisphere 1948 – USA: Airplanes were destroyed by a tornado at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City. 1950 – ENGLAND: Norway comes to North London for a ski-jumping competition complete with imported snow. 1961 – RUSSIA: Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered 1975 – USA: The town of Sandberg reported a wind gust to 101 mph, a record for the state of California 1987 – USA: Heavy rain left rivers and streams swollen in Kansas and Nebraska, causing considerable crop damage due to flooding of agricultural areas. 1992 - Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned to Earth from the Mir space station after a 10-month stay, during which his native country, the Soviet Union, ceased to exist. 2002 – AFGHANISTAN/PAKISTAN: A powerful earthquake kills as many as 1,000 people. 2003 – IRAQ: Massive sandstorms held up the U.S. led coalition as its ground forces continued to advance toward Baghdad. 2005 – IRELAND: A warm sunny day with max temperatures reaching between 17c & 18c in the west. 2009 – GREECE: A rare tornado touched down in Nea Manolada in southwestern Greece. The most severe damage was to a vehicle where two of the occupants (all from Bulgaria) were killed and a third was critically injured. Extensive damage was also reported to numerous houses and businesses in the area 2010 - ICELAND: A major volcanic eruption takes place at Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland. Volcanic ash eventually leads to the grounding of air traffic throughout much of Europe |
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| Mark (IWO) | March 27 2011, 02:18 PM Post #29 |
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March 27th is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 279 days remaining until the end of the year. 1890 – USA: An outbreak of tornadoes occurred in the Ohio Valley. One of the tornadoes struck Louisville KY killing 78 persons and causing four million dollars damage. 1946 – CANADA: Winnipeg, Manitoba thawed out as the mercury soared to 74F, their warmest March temperature on record. 1955 – USA: A demolition crew using helicopters blasted ice in Niagara Falls. This was considered a fruitless attempt to break up the ice that has caused destruction along the shores of this body of the Niagara River. 1964 – USA: The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage 1972 - Venera 8 was launched to Venus. 1977 – Two 747 jumbo jets crash into each other on the runway at an airport in the Canary Islands. Several factors, including thick fog forming over the airfield led to the fiery disaster that killed 583 people, the worst commercial aviation accident in history. 1980 – UK: At least 120 oil rig workers are feared dead after a North Sea accommodation platform collapsed during gales. Reports say a massive wave hit one of the legs of the platform, causing it to break and send the 208 people on board into the sea at around 1830 GMT. Most of those missing from the Alexander Kielland platform, which was situated 235 miles east of Dundee, are Norwegian. 1980 – USA: After a week of small earthquakes below the area, an eruption of Mount St. Helens blasts a mushroom cloud over most of the state of Washington. Just 2 months later St. Helens catastrophically erupted on May 18, 1980 during which 57 people were killed or never found and huge tracts of forest and homes were destroyed. 1994 – USA: Church in Piedmont Alabama collapses in tornado, 19 killed 2000 – CHINA: Winds blowing across the Mongolian Desert in China created a major sandstorm that blew into the capital city of Beijing. The 48- minute sandstorm resulted in 16 deaths and 50 injuries. 2006 – EUROPE: A line of thunderstorms with some supercells tracked across Netherlands, France, Belgium, and Germany, spawning tornadoes in Germany, including one that tracked through the southern section of Hamburg at about 7:00 p.m. local time (1700 UTC). The tornadoes killed two people who were caught on construction cranes when the tornado hit. 300,000 people also lost electricity as a result of the storms. Damage was reported to be significant, including flipped cars and major roof damage to numerous houses. |
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| Mark (IWO) | March 28 2011, 11:39 AM Post #30 |
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March 28th is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 278 days remaining until the end of the year. 1742 - IRELAND: The first two boats, laden with Tyrone coal, to reach Dublin via the newly constructed Newry Canal were the Boulter and the Cope. The canal was 18 miles long and had 14 locks. 1745 – IRELAND: A bog landslide occurs in the County Galway townland of Addergoob, near Dunmore. The landslide occurred following heavy rain and led to a massive fish kill in the local river. 1802 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man. 1809 – UK: A severe thunderstorm, accompanied by large hail, damages crops and property in Sussex 1849 – IRELAND: Doolough Tragedy: famine victims are forced to walk through atrocious weather conditions to appeal for famine relief, resulting in many deaths. 1865 – USA: The Wind Wheel is patented. “The object of this invention is to so combine the parts that a uniform motion of the wind wheel shall be maintained, irrespective of the fluctuation of the wind's force” – Commission of Patents report. 1907 – RUSSIA: A huge eruption occurred of the Ksudach volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Siberia. 1916 – UK: The Guardian newspaper reports: “Some towns describe' tho blizzard raging as the worst in living memory. Snowdrifts are 20 feet deep. Trams and trains are snowed up and many are damaged. The Midlands is isolated.” 1920 – USA: The worst tornado disaster of record occurred in Chicago IL as a tornado killed 28 persons and caused three million dollars damage. 1921 – USA: A cold front caused temperatures to plummet 20 degrees in 20 minutes in the Garden State of New Jersey. 1967 – CANADA: Ralph Plaisted from Minnesota lead a snowmobile expedition to the north pole from Eureka on March 28 1967. A blizzard forced the party to turn around on May 4, 1967, 370 miles from the pole.... 1970 – TURKEY: 1,086 die when a 7.4 quake destroys 254 villages in Gediz 1984 – USA: A violent outbreak of tornadoes hit the Carolinas. Thunderstorms spawned 22 tornadoes during the late afternoon and evening hours which killed 57 persons and injured 1248 others. 2004 – BRAZIL: Tropical Storm Cyclone Catarina hit Torres with winds of about 150 km/h causing extensive damage. This was a rare event for the region. 2005 – INDONESIA: The 2005 Sumatran earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the fourth strongest earthquake since 1965. 2007 – USA: A tornado sweeps through the Texas panhandle from the Rockies, killing at four people in three states 2009 – USA: A strong spring cyclone set new statewide 24-hr snow fall records in Texas , Oklahoma, and Kansas |
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| Mark (IWO) | March 29 2011, 01:34 PM Post #31 |
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March 29th is the 88th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 277 days remaining until the end of the year. 1814 – FRANCE: A severe spring storm sweeps across northern and central France. Buildings were damaged by strong winds across the capital Paris 1848 – USA: A storm caused ice to dam up at the mouth of the Niagara River causing both Falls (Horseshoe and American) to slow to a trickle. By the next morning the dam broke and the flow returned to normal. 1850 – IRELAND: The Irish-registered SS Royal Adelaide sank in a storm near Margate. 200 people died. The boat was sailing from Cork to England 1904 – San Francisco is hit by a severe storm. Telegraph wires were downed while the barometer fell to 29 deg., the lowest on record 1912 – ANTARCTICA: On his return journey from the South Pole, General Robert Falcon Scott makes his last diary entry, the presumed date of his death. Many historians are of the belief that only for the adverse weather, Scott and some of his party could have survived. 1935 – USA: A severe dust storm blanketed Amarillo, TX, for 84 hours. During one six hour period the visibility was near zero. 1942 – USA: The "Palm Sunday Snowstorm" buried Baltimore, MD under 21.9 inches of snow in 24 hours. 1968 – HOLLAND: The hottest Dutch temperature in March was recorded as the thermometer soared to 78° in the towns of Gemert and Venlo. 1973 – USA: The largest official hailstone ever recorded in Florida measuring 3.5 inches across, fell in Walton County. 1974 –SPACE: Mariner 10, the U.S. space probe became the first spacecraft to reach the planet Mercury. It had been launched on November 3, 1973. 1982 – MEXICO: The combination of an earthquake and a volcanic eruption at El Chichon in southern Mexico converts a hill into a crater, kills thousands of people and destroys acres of farmland on this day in 1982. The eruptions, which continued for over a week, caught many of the area residents unaware and unprepared. 1984 – USA: A storm pushed the tides to more than nine feet and caused millions of dollars worth of damage along the East Coast 1989 – USA: Thunderstorms produced torrential rains in north-eastern Texas and south-western Arkansas. Longview, Texas reported 14.16 inches of rain. More than eleven inches of rain at Henderson Texas caused a dam to give way, and people left stranded in trees had to be rescued by boat. Total damage in north-eastern Texas was estimated at 10 to 16 million dollars. 1991 – INDIA: A severe storm, the worst in 34 years, hit Hyderabad 1996 – ECUADOR: An earthquake in central Ecuador killed 29 people. 1998 – USA: In Minnesota twisters from St. Peter to Comfrey damaged an estimated 819 homes and left 2 people dead. 1998 – PERU: An air force plane crashes while evacuating people stranded by flooding crashed in Piura. Twenty-two people were killed when the Russian-made Antonov military plane crashed into a Peruvian shantytown outside the northern city of Piura. 1999 – INDIA: In India at least 51 people were killed following a 6.8 earthquake in the Kumaon Hills in Uttar Pradesh. The quake struck just after midnight and the death toll rose to at least 87. The toll was raised to 110 at Chamoli on the Alaknanda River. 2002 – CHINA: A massive dust storm sweeps across the north-west of the country 2003 – SPACE: A gamma ray burst was detected as a giant star exploded and collapsed into a black hole some 2 billion light years away in the direction of the constellation Leo. 2004 – BRAZIL: A storm battered Brazil's southern coast Sunday killing two people and injuring 60 others. The cyclone destroyed 20000 homes and has left thousands of families homeless. Winds were clocked at 150 kilometres (81 nautical miles or knots) per hour, far above the 65 knot wind threshold for classification as a Category 1 hurricane, also called a cyclone 2006 – SPACE: The first total eclipse in years plunged Ghana into daytime darkness, a solar show sweeping northeast from Brazil to Mongolia. 2006 – IRELAND: The Maggie B sank in stormy seas, some four miles off the Wexford coast. Two of the three crewmen tragically lost their lives. 2006 – AUSTRALIA: Powerful winds whip up surf along the coastline of Western Australia's Pilbara, and the storm brought heavy rain to the islands off the Kimberly coast. The storm reached Category 5 status, the maximum rating possible for a cyclone. 2007 – USA: A spring storm spawned some 65 tornadoes from South Dakota to Texas leaving 4 people dead. 2007 – NEW ZEALAND: In northern New Zealand buildings were washed away, homes flooded and scores of buses and cars trapped by raging flood waters after the equivalent of three months of rainfall poured down in just 36 hours. 2009 – USA: The mysterious boom and flash of light seen over parts of Virginia was not a meteor, but actually exploding space junk from the second stage of a Russian Soyuz rocket, launched March 26, falling back to Earth. 2009 – LIBYA: The bodies of 100 migrants are recovered off the coast of Tripoli after their boat sank during a storm in the Mediterranean |
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| Mark (IWO) | March 30 2011, 11:40 AM Post #32 |
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![]() Cars trapped by snow drift in Derry, 30 March 2010 March 30th is the 89th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 276 days remaining until the end of the year. 240 BC - 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. 1625 – SCOTLAND: Floodwaters from the River Forth damage estuary ports, salt pans and coal pits following a major storm. 1820 – IRELAND: Heavy snow, almost a foot deep in places, and strong winds affect muchy of the country. 1823 – USA: A great Northeast storm with hurricane force winds raged from Pennsylvania to Maine. 1888 – NEW ZEALAND: One of the severest storms that has been experienced IN Wellington for years swept over the city, accompanied by a “tidal wave which rose in the harbour to within 18 inches of the breastwork” 1897 – USA: 14 people are killed by a tornado in Chandler, New Mexico 1905 – USA: Battery Park is strewn with 24 inch snow rollers following a storm which struck New York City between the 26th and 28th. Snow rollers are natural snowballs that are formed when winds blow over a snow covered surface. 1910 – FRANCE: The world’s first seaplane took off from water at Martinques 1930 – USA: A severe ice storm hits Ohio 1989 – USA: A tornado injures eleven people at Northampton, North Carolina 1992 – IRELAND: The operators of Brittany Ferries said they are prepared to deal with claims from owners of vehicles damaged after a ferry was hit by a freak wave the previous week 1997 – USA: Early morning tornadoes across south-eastern Tennessee injured 26 people. Two people were killed a hours earlier in Kentucky by twisters. 2000 – JAPAN: Mount Usu erupted on Hokaido following 22 years of dormancy. Evacuations from Date, Sobetsu and Abuta preceded the eruption. 2001- PAKISTAN: Four people were killed when a tornado touched down at Chak Miran 2001 – CANADA: Top environment officials from North, Central and South America ended two days of talks in Montreal without a consensus agreement on global warming. A statement signed by 26 ministers from Latin American and Caribbean countries faulted a decision by the United States to reject the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. 2006 – BAHRAIN: A cruise boat carrying some 130 people capsized in calm Gulf waters only a few hundred yards off the Bahrain coast. 58 people were killed. 2010 - IRELAND AND BRITAIN: Snow, gales and heavy rain hit Scotland and Northern Ireland, leading to severe transport and power problems. Republic of Ireland, England and Wales were also affected by heavy rain and gales. |
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| Mark (IWO) | April 1 2011, 12:18 PM Post #33 |
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April 1st is the 91st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 274 days remaining until the end of the year. 374 - Comet 1P/374 E1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0884 AUs of Earth 1748 – ITALY: Ruins of Pompeii were found. 1793 – JAPAN: The volcano Unsen erupted killing about 53,000. 1845 – USA: The first commercial telegraph line was opened on this date in Washington D.C. This made the science of weather forecasting possible as observations could be gathered in real time, plotted on a map and forecasts drawn from the data. 1863 - USA: During the American Civil War, the Union-built and French-designed submarine Alligator was lost in a storm off Cape Hatteras on April 1, 1863 with no crew and under tow to its first combat deployment at Charleston. 1873 – CANADA: The Belfast-built White Star steamship Atlantic, enroute to NYC from Liverpool with 811 passengers under Capt. James Agnew Williams (33), ran into rocks in heavy seas off Nova Scotia and sank killing 565 people, mostly women and children. A court of inquiry suspended Williams for 2 years. 1875 – ENGLAND: The first daily newspaper weather map was published by the London Times. 1879 – USA: The ship "India" was abandoned off the Delaware coast after being caught between two waterspouts while well off shore. 1888 - IRELAND: The first All-Ireland hurling final was played in glorious sunshine between the winners of the Galway and Tipperary county championships 1911 – AUSTRALIA: 31.56 inches of rain fell in 24 hours at Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia 1912 – USA: A tornado with incredible velocity ripped into downtown Houston, Texas, breaking the water table and giving the city its first natural waterspout 1917 – IRELAND: The country’s heaviest ever recorded snowfall occurred on this day, particularly in the West. In east Clare, the bodies of James Vaughan (40) and his nephew Michael Vaughan (12) are found on the pass of Slounagalough where there is heavy snow, up to 18 inches deep in some places, and temperatures drop to -9c. Blizzard conditions were also reported elsewhere around the country, especially in many hilly regions. 3 metre snowdrifts were reported. Newspaper reports from the time suggest the severe weather took a toll on livestock. By April 2nd many western counties were cut off. It snowed heavily again on April 2nd and 3rd. 1931 – NICARAGUA: An Earthquake devastated Managua, killing 2,000. 1945 – ALGERIA: A record low temperature of -20c was recorded in Batna, Batna Province 1946 – USA: Two earthquakes rocked the Scotch Cap Lighthouse on Unimak Island, Aleutian Islands, within 27 minutes. The tremors caused a massive tsunami which washed away the lighthouse. Debris was found at levels 115 feet above sea level. A massive tsunami killed 159 people in Hawaii. 1954 – USA: Earthquake/tsunami ravage the Aleutians, 200 killed 1960 – USA: The first weather satellite, TIROS 1, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida 1962 – CANADA: Torrential rains fell at Alma, New Brunswick Canada measuring 7.05 inches and a 48 hour total of 9.00 inches. 1970 – USA: 11 inches of snow fell at O'Hara Airport, Chicago closing the airport. 1973 – USA: A tornado hit Fairfax, Virginia, injuring 37 people and causing $14 million dollars in damage. 1997 – Comet Hale-Bopp is seen passing over perihelion. 1998 – BRAZIL: Heavy rains extinguished more than 95% of the extensive fires in the northern Amazon. 1999 – USA: A heavy snowstorm hit the US northern plains. 2002 – USA: The American Rivers environmental group listed the most endangered US rivers and included the Missouri, Big Sunflower (Mississippi), and Klamath (California) in the top 11. 2006 – AFRICA: Three explorers from Britain and New Zealand claimed to be the first to have travelled the Nile from its mouth to its "true source" deep in Rwanda's lush Nyungwe rainforest. 2010 – IRELAND: Snow fell across many parts of the west and north |
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| Mark (IWO) | April 2 2011, 01:21 PM Post #34 |
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April 2nd is the 92nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 273 days remaining until the end of the year. 1595 – SOUTH AFRICA: Cornelis de Houtman’s ships departed to Asia through the notoriously dangerous waters off around Cape of Good Hope. 1786 – USA: Heavy snowstorm in the northeast. 12 inches fell from New Jersey to New Hampshire. Several piers destroyed at Boston by gales and high tides. 1912 – IRELAND: The Belfast-built Titanic underwent sea trials under its own power. It sank in the Atlantic nearly two weeks later after striking an iceberg 1917 – IRELAND: Snow continues to fall across Ireland following the heaviest snowfall experienced in the country on 1 April 1970 – NEPAL: Two men began an ascent of the south face of Annapurna I, the highest final stage in a wall climb in world. 1975 – USA: The biggest snowstorm of record for so late in the season paralysed Chicago, IL. Up to 20 inches of snow fell in extreme north-eastern Illinois, and 10.9 inches of snow closed Chicago’s O’Hare Airport 1988 – USA: Thunderstorms produced up to nine inches of rain around New Orleans causing 18 million dollars damage 1999 – USA: At least 7 people died in a freak snowstorm while trying to cross the Mexican border into California in the Cleveland National Forest. 2001 - Scientists reported new evidence for “dark energy” and believed that it was causing the universe to expand faster with time. 2006 – USA: Thunderstorms packing tornadoes and hail as big as softballs ripped through eight US states, killing at least 27 people. Tennessee was hit hardest, with tornadoes striking five western counties and killing 23 people, including an infant. Severe thunderstorms, many producing tornadoes, also struck parts of Iowa, Kentucky, Arkansas, Missouri, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana. Strong wind was blamed or at least three deaths in Missouri. 2007 –SOLOMON ISLANDS: Tsunami waves churned by an undersea earthquake crashed ashore in the Solomon Islands, wiping away entire villages and triggering alerts from Australia to Hawaii. At least 50 people were killed |
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| Mark (IWO) | April 4 2011, 01:52 PM Post #35 |
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![]() Two citizens pick through debris, looking for possible victims following the touch down of a tornado on April 3rd in Brandenbrug, Kentucky, which destroyed half of the town. The town was among the victims of the worst cyclonic onslaught in nearly half a century that has sent the death toll surging past 300, injured thousands and damaged billions of dollars of property across 13 states. President Nixon declared 5 states as disaster areas on April 4th April 4th is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 271 days remaining until the end of the year. 1804 – USA: A group of tornadoes slashed a 120 mile path across seven counties in Georgia and one county in South Carolina killing 11 people near Augusta, Georgia. 1838 – IRELAND: The SS Sirius left Cork harbour on April 4th, 1838 and arrived in New York on April 22 becoming the first steamship to cross the Atlantic. It beat Brunel’s Great Western by eight hours. It sailed from Bristol on 8 April 1838 to New York and arrived 23 April 1838. 1905 – INDIA: Earthquake in Kangra kills 20,000 1923 –USA: An F4 tornado killed 15 people and injured 150 at Alexandria and Pineville, Louisiana 1931 – IRELAND: Persistent rainfall causes the banks of the River Lee to burst. Half the houses in Cork are flooded. 1933 – USA: The Airship U.S. Akron crashed in a storm 20 miles SSE of Barnegat Light in California, killing 73. After a court of inquiry, the Navy concluded that the crew thought the dirigible was considerably higher than its actual altitude and, battling the storm, flew the craft into the water. 1947 - Scientists noted the largest group of sunspots on record. 1958 - USA: The last time snow fell in Las Vegas in April 1974 – USA/CANADA: North America comes to terms with the largest and most severe tornado outbreak occurred. The Super Outbreak involved 148 tornadoes breaking out across 13 US states and Ontario, Canada. The outbreak included 24 F4s and 6 F5s, more F5s than have been reported in any other year. There were also more significant tornadoes during that 24 hours than any other entire week on record. 1990 – USA: A deep low pressure system in northern New York State brought heavy snow to parts of western and central New York 1997 – USA: A massive F5 tornado moved across northern Birmingham, Alabama, killing 22 people and injuring 130. 1998 – ETHIOPIA: A locust plague was reported covering an area of 3,700 acres in the regions of Jijiga and Dire Dawa. Aerial spraying was begun. 2000 – IRELAND: Thousands of gallons of diesel oil are pumped off a storm-stricken Dutch barge which ran aground during poor weather on a sandbank in Bray Harbour, Co. Wicklow 2000 – ENGLAND: Severe weather forces the closure of Luton airport as blizzards and flooding cause widespread chaos. Heavy rain has also been a major problem, sweeping across parts of the south and causing flooding from Cambridgeshire to Somerset. 2006 – USA: Four consecutive days of rain from April 2nd to April 4th resulted in the Black Rascal Creek swelling and flooding 300 homes in North Merced, California and evacuations. 2008 – IRELAND: Temperatures dip across Ireland and remain unseasonably low for much of the month. The month’s mean air temperatures of between 7°C and 9°C were the lowest for April in 8 years. |
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| Fergal (IWO) | April 4 2011, 08:32 PM Post #36 |
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| Mark (IWO) | April 5 2011, 12:50 PM Post #37 |
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![]() Engineers check damage in the Villa de Fuente colonia along the Rio Escondido, following flash flooding in the area. The number of people killed in the April 5, 2004, flash flood in Piedras Negras rose to at least 25, with dozens of people reported missing. April 5th is the 95th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 270 days remaining until the end of the year. 1242 –RUSSIA: During a battle on the ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights. 1588 – SPAIN: The Armada first sailed. It hit a terrible storm and many ships were damaged. They had to return to port to get repaired. 1722 – PACIFIC: Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovered Easter Island, a Polynesian Island 1400 miles from the coast of South America. 1804 – SCOTLAND: High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil. 1815 – INDONESIA: The Tambora Volcano in Java erupted. Ash from the eruption would circle the globe, blocking sunlight and leading to the unusually cold summer in 1816. Eastern North America and Europe had freezing nighttime temperatures in August. 1936 – USA: 446 people are killed in second deadliest tornado outbreak ever in U.S. April 5-6. 17 twisters struck from Mississippi to the Carolinas. Tupelo, Mississippi reported 216 deaths. One of the survivors in Tupelo was a baby named Elvis Presley. Gainesville, Georgia had 203 fatalities and 934 injuries in a tornado that occurred early on the following morning. 1958 – CANADA: Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time. 1970 –NEPAL: Six Sherpas died in an avalanche during a Japanese skiing expedition on Everest. 1971 – ITALY: In Sicily, Mount Etna began a series of eruptions. 1972 – USA: The deadliest tornado of 1972 occurred in an unlikely location: Washington State. The twister touched down along the Columbia River near Portland OR and moved NNE along a 9-mile path. The storm caused $6 million in damage at Vancouver WA. The storm only rated as an F2, but it still caused 6 fatalities and 304 injuries. 150 of the injuries occurred at the Ogden Elementary School. The storm was the worst in history in Washington State. 1973- SPACE: Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter 1979 – CANADA/USA: A severe storm struck the Great Lakes region with waves of 5 m on Lake Erie, and loss in property damage in the millions of dollars. 1982 – USA: Two feet of snow across parts of Massachusetts and Connecticut from a major eastern blizzard 1982 – USA: A 22-year-old woman, found alive after spending five days buried in an avalanche in Alpine Meadows in California, said she survived by eating snow. Anna Maria Conrad , a ski lift operator, was buried and presumed dead when an avalanche swept down on the northern ski resort last Wednesday. 1987 – USA: The Schoharie Creek thruway bridge near Fort Hunter, New York collapsed during a near record flood April 5, 1987, after 33 years of use. Six inches of rain combined with snow melt to create a 50 year flood. 1991 – SPACE: The space shuttle “Atlantis” blasted off on a mission that included the deploying of the second of “NASA’s” Great Observatories. NASA launched the $670 million Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. It was directed to a suicide plunge in 2000. 1999 – IRELAND: More than 300 people armed with gloves and plastic bags brave a driving mist and head for the hills for the annual Clean up the Comeraghs campaign in Co. Waterford 2004 – MEXICO: A flash flood swept through two border communities in northern Mexico, flooding rivers, washing away houses and killing 15 people. Dozens more were reported missing. 2005 – NEPAL/IRELAND: Lynne Stark, 42, and her partner Noel Hanna, 38, from Dromara , Co Down arrive in Kathmandu ahead of their bit to climb Mount Everest 2007 – GREECE: A Greek cruise ship, the Sea Diamond, sank after running aground off the Aegean Sea island of Santorini, forcing the evacuation of nearly 1,600 people. 2009 – YEMEN: Off the coast of Yemen a smuggling boat carrying 23 Somalis hit rough seas. 8 drowned, 13 made it to shore and two were missing. 2010 – SPACE: A geomagnetic storm produces Northern Lights displays |
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| Mark (IWO) | April 6 2011, 11:17 AM Post #38 |
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April 6th is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 269 days remaining until the end of the year. 1580 – UK/FRANCE: One of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place. The Dover Straits earthquake is believed to have been 5.3-5.9 magnitude 1667 – CROATIA: An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state. 1909 – ARCTIC: Explorers Robert E. Peary, Matthew A. Henson and four Inuits became the first men to reach the North Pole along with 4 Eskimos. Peary used Ellesmere Island as a base for his expedition to the North Pole. The north coast of Ellesmere lies just 480 miles from the Pole. He was accompanied by Matthew Henson (was reburied next to Peary in Arlington, Virgina on this day in 1988), an African-American, who had spent 18 years in the Arctic with Peary. The claim was disputed by skeptics and in 1988 the original navigational records were uncovered from the dog-sled voyage indicating that Peary probably never got closer than 121 miles from the North Pole. In 1989 the Navigation Foundation upheld that Peary reached the North Pole. Arctic explorer Frederick A. Cook claimed to have discovered the North Pole a year ahead of Peary. Many historians suspect that neither explorer succeeded. The term “Dr. Cook weather” refers to an incident where Dr. Cook once left a chilly New York baseball game after which the city papers trumpeted; “Game called—even too cold for Dr. Cook.” Cook's assertion was later proved false. 1936 – USA: A tornado killed 203 and injures 1,800 in Gainesville, Georgia. 1965 – SPACE: The United States launched the Intelsat I, also known as the "Early Bird" communications satellite. 1981- CANADA: Wind gusts reached 67 mph across southern Saskatchewan closing down schools, knocking down power lines, and stripping topsoil from farmlands. 1984 – USA: First measurable rain in Phoenix Arizona after 91 straight rain free days. 1996 – IRELAND: Cold nights and sunny days are forecast on Easter Saturday as the good weather looks set to continue for the Easter weekend 1997 – USA: A blizzard shut down much of the northern Plains. 2000 – SPACE: Two Russian cosmonauts docked with Mir. The destruction of the space station was delayed after MirCorp. of Amsterdam agreed in Feb. to pay $10-20 million to lease commercial rights. 2001 - Major climate changes seen in the Northern Hemisphere over the past 50 years have been driven by a progressive warming of tropical oceans, probably caused by the man-made build up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, scientists said. An atmospheric pressure seesaw between Iceland at one end and Spain and Portugal at the other - known as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) - is the key player, experts said in research published in the journal Science. 2002 – IRELAND: Galway man Richard Donovan becomes the first person in history to run a marathon at both the North and South Pole. 2005 – USA: Thunderstorms erupted and produced severe weather including 32 reports of tornadoes, most of which touched down in Mississippi and Louisiana. As many as 25 homes were destroyed and 7 people were injured. 2006 – IRELAND: Dr John de Courcy, maritime historian and author of the Irish Times Weather Eye column, is laid to rest. 2006 – USA: In California 3 ski patrollers were killed when snow collapsed around a volcanic gas vent at Mammoth Lakes. 2007 – SPACE: :Russian space experts have accused the US of disabling a weather satellite during experimental tests last month 2007 – SPACE: Supernova SN2007bi was first observed in a nearby dwarf galaxy. It burned steadily for months. In 2009 scientists reported that the explosion was probably that of a super massive star, at least two hundred times the mass of the Sun. 2007 –AFRICA: UN climate experts issued their starkest warning yet about the impact of global warming, ranging from hunger in Africa to a fast thaw in the Himalayas, in a report that increased pressure on governments to act. 2008 – IRELAND/UK: The heaviest spring snowstorms for almost two decades blanketed much of Great Britain and Ireland. At Heathrow Airport as many as 144 flights were cancelled because of the snow. A number of flights were delayed in Dublin. Sleet and snow descended on Manchester, the North East, the South and North Wales in the early hours, then spread to the Midlands and London. The last time Britain saw similar spring snowstorms was on 4/5/1989. 2009 – MALAYSIA: The Malaysian Grand Prix was abandoned after just 31 laps when torrential rain swamped the Sepang circuit. 2009 – ITALY: A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, killing at least 253. 2010 – IRELAND: Large areas of Dublin’s North Bull Island nature reserve were left scorched yesterday after high winds caused a fire to quickly spread across the island’s dunes. |
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| Mark (IWO) | April 7 2011, 01:25 PM Post #39 |
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The water spout spotted in Antrim. April 2010![]() April 7th is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 268 days remaining until the end of the year. 1888 - BANGLADESH: A 500 foot wide tornado killed 118 people and injured 1,200 at Dhaka. 1906 – ITALY: Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples. 1924 – AUSTRALIA: Most consecutive days above 100 °F (37.8 °C): 160 days; Marble Bar, Western Australia from 31 October 1923 to 7 April 1924 1926 – USA: Oil fire caused by lightning at San Luis Obispo, California. Over 6 million barrels of oil would be burned in the five-day fire. Two dead. $15 million in damage. Meanwhile, a forest fire burns 900 acres and kills 2 1940 - An Annular Solar Eclipse is seen for the first time in North America since 1930 and the sun was blocked completely out for 6 to 7 minutes by the moon with a narrow circle of brilliance around it's rim. 1983 – SPACE: During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk. 1985 – CANADA: A windstorm produced gusts to 70 mph across Southern Ontario. High winds twisted the elevator cables on the Skylon Tower at Niagara Falls trapping seven people for a time. 1988 – USA: 172-mph wind gust at Grandfather Mountain, NC. 1990 – TIBET: A ferry sinks in a violent storm and strong winds in the Gyaing River. 215 of the ferry’s 240 passengers are drowned. 2001- SPACE: The Mars Odyssey spacecraft took off on a six-month, 286-million-mile journey to the red planet. It reached Mars on October 24, 2001 2005 – IRAQ: Sand storms affect much of the country 2006 – USA: In Tennessee 10 people were killed as tornadoes hit the area for the 2nd time in a week. 2010 – IRELAND: A water spout is spotted off the coast of County Antrim, near Bushmills |
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| Mark (IWO) | April 11 2011, 01:18 AM Post #40 |
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![]() Sunny Crosshaven, Cork, and snowy Co Sligo (Ben Bulben) on April 11 2007. Images Destinations/Corbis April 11th is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 264 days remaining until the end of the year. 1798 – ITALY: physicist Macedonio Melloni, who was the first to investigate infrared radiation, was born. 1860 – USA: A foot of wet snow in Philadelphia 1875 – GERMANY: Heinrich Schwabe, discoverer of the 11-year sunspot cycle, died. 1965 – USA: A series of tornados left 256 people dead in the US Midwest. 1968 – NEW ZEALAND: Fifty-one people die when a ferry capsizes in Wellington harbour, New Zealand, during one of the worst storms ever to hit the country. 1970 – SPACE: Apollo 13 blasted off on a mission to the moon, commanded by Jim Lovell, that was disrupted on April 13, when an explosion crippled the spacecraft. The astronauts managed to return safely on April 17. 1972 – IRAN: At least 4,000 people die in a massive earthquake in southern Iran which flattens entire towns and villages. 1986 – SPACE: Halley’s Comet made its closest approach to Earth this trip at 63 M km. 1991 – SPACE: The space shuttle “Atlantis” landed safely after an extended, 93-orbit mission that included deployment of an observatory. 1996 – AUSTRALIA: Fastest recorded wind speed with an anemometer: 113.2 m/s or 407 km/h (253 mph) 3-second gust; one of five extreme gusts during a series of 5-min time periods; Barrow Island (Western Australia), during Tropical Cyclone Olivia. 1997 – IRELAND: Satellite TV signals are disrupted as a result of a massive solar flare erupting on the sun’s surface on Monday, spewing a burst of radiation and tonnes of charged particles in Ireland’s direction. 1998 – IRELAND: Bitter winds and wintry showers give a cold start to the Easter holiday weekend yesterday. Heavy flooding on the east coast causes traffic chaos, and the entire country wakes to icy conditions, which makes roads treacherous. 1998 – MALAYSIA: A record temp for the country of 40.1c was recorded in Chuping 2002 – IRELAND: During a remembrance ceremony at St Colman’s Cathedral, candles are lit for each of the 79 people who boarded the Titanic on her maiden and final voyage which departed from Cobh, then known as Queenstown, on this date in 1912. The Titanic sank on April 15 after colliding with an iceberg in the north Atlantic 2007 – IRELAND/SPAIN: Several hundred Ryanair passengers are left stranded in northern Spain (Vitoria ) after their incoming aircraft diverted to a different airport due to heavy fog. Their flight to Dublin ended up being cancelled 2007 – IRELAND: A day of contrasts as the sun shines in the south, snow falls in the north, northwest and east of Ireland (see above image below video) 2008 – IRELAND: A thunderstorm produces large hail over Maghera, Derry (see video below) http://www.irishweatheronline.com/history/on-this-day/on-this-day-in-weather-history-april-11.html |
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