TODAY  Version 3.7   06/24/94       Copyright 1986, 1994  By Patrick Kincaid   
      
    Today is Friday  March 11, 2016.   
    This is the 71st day of the year, there are 295 days left.   
      
    On this day...   
       Weather data after 1990 is PARTIAL. For more current   
       weather history, go to the National Climate Data Center   
       website at www.ncdc.noaa.gov   
       In 1911 Tamarack CA reported 451 inches of snow on the ground,   
               a record for the U.S.   
       In 1948 Record cold followed in the wake of a Kansas blizzard.   
               Lows of -25 degrees at Oberlin, Healy and Quinter   
               established a state record for the month of March.   
               Lows of -15 at Dodge City, -11 at Concordia, and -3 at   
               Wichita were also March records.   
       In 1962 One of the most paralyzing snowstorms in decades   
               produced record March snowfalls in Iowa.  Four feet of   
               snow covered the ground at Inwood following the storm.   
       In 1986 Lightning struck a radio-transmitter tower in Arizona's   
               Baxter County twice in 3 hours.   
       In 1987 Unseasonably cold weather prevailed in the southeastern   
               U.S., and a storm over the Gulf of Mexico spread rain   
               and sleet and snow into the Appalachian Region.  Sleet   
               was reported in southern Mississippi.   
       In 1988 A blizzard raged across the north central U.S.  Chadron   
               NE was buried under 33 inches of snow, up to 25 inches   
               of snow was reported in eastern Wyoming, and totals in   
               the Black Hills of South Dakota ranged up to 69 inches   
               at Lead.  Winds gusted to 63 mph at Mullen NE.  Snow   
               drifts thirty feet high were reported around Lusk WY.   
       In 1989 Twenty-one cities in the central and southwestern U.S.   
               reported new record high temperatures for the date.   
               The afternoon high of 95 degrees at Lubbock TX equalled   
               their record for March.   
       In 1990 Forty-four cities in the central and eastern U.S.   
               reported record high temperatures for the date.  Record   
               highs included 71 degrees at Dickinson ND and Williston   
               ND, and 84 degrees at Lynchburg VA, Charleston WV and   
               Huntington WV.  Augusta GA and Columbia SC tied for   
               honors as the hot spot in the nation with record highs   
               of 88 degrees.  A vigorous cold front produced up to   
               three feet of snow in the mountains of Utah.   
      
      
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