TODAY  Version 3.7   06/24/94       Copyright 1986, 1994  By Patrick Kincaid   
      
    Today is Saturday  March 12, 2016.   
    This is the 72nd day of the year, there are 294 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 1888 A blizzard paralyzed southeastern New York State and   
               western New England.  The storm produced 58 inches of   
               snow at Saratoga NY, and 50 inches at Middletown CT.   
               The blizzard was followed by record cold temperatures,   
               and the cold and snow claimed 400 lives.  New York City   
               received 20.9 inches of snow, Albany NY reported 46.7   
               inches.   
       In 1954 A blizzard raged from eastern Wyoming into the Black   
               Hills of western South Dakota, while a severe ice storm   
               was in progress from northeastern Nebraska to central   
               Iowa.  The ice storm isolated 153 towns in Iowa.  Dust   
               from the Great Plains caused brown snow, and hail and   
               muddy rain over parts of Wisconsin and Michigan.   
               (11th-13th)   
       In 1967 A tremendous four day storm raged across California.   
               Winds of 90 mph closed mountain passes, heavy rains   
               flooded the lowlands, and in sixty hours Squaw Valley   
               received 96 inches (eight feet) of snow.   
       In 1987 Unseasonably cold weather prevailed in the southeastern   
               U.S., with gale force winds along the Middle Atlantic   
               Coast.  A storm in the Pacific Northwest produced rain   
               and gale force winds.  Crescent City CA received 2.27   
               inches of rain in 24 hours.   
       In 1988 A powerful storm produced high winds and heavy snow in   
               the Upper Mississippi Valley and the Upper Great Lakes   
               Region.  Winds gusting to 70 mph produced snow drifts   
               six feet high in Minnesota, and sent twelve foot waves   
               on Lake Superior over the breakwalls of the ship canal   
               at Duluth MN.   
       In 1989 An early season heat wave continued in the central and   
               southwestern U.S.  Nineteen cities reported record high   
               temperatures for the date.  Wichita Falls TX, which six   
               days earlier reported a record low of 8 above, reported   
               a record high of 95 degrees.  Childress TX was the   
               first spot in the country to hit the 100 degree mark.   
       In 1990 Unseasonably warm weather prevailed from the Southern   
               and Central Plains to the Southern and Middle Atlantic   
               Coast, with afternoon highs in the 70s and 80s.   
               Seventy-six cities reported record high temperatures   
               for the date.  Downtown Baltimore MD was the hot spot   
               in the nation with a record high of 95 degrees, which   
               smashed their previous record for the date by nineteen   
               degrees.  Other record highs included 89 degrees at   
               Washington D.C. and 90 degrees at Raleigh NC.   
       In 2004 Big Bay Lake Dam, an earthen structure about 7 miles   
               north of Baxterville, MS, failed. The lake originally   
               covered 1100 areas...the break flooded over 50 homes.   
      
      
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