TODAY  Version 3.7   06/24/94       Copyright 1986, 1994  By Patrick Kincaid   
      
    Today is Wednesday  August 22, 2012.   
    This is the 235th day of the year, there are 131 days left.   
      
    On this day...   
       In 1816 The growing season for corn was cut short as damaging   
               frosts were reported from North Carolina to interior New   
               England.   
       In 1923 The temperature at Anchorage AK reached 82 degrees,   
               a record for August for the location which was later tied   
               on the 2nd in 1978.   
       In 1987 A cold front lowered temperatures 20 to 40 degrees across   
               the north central U.S., and produced severe thunderstorms   
               in Ohio and Lower Michigan.  An early morning   
               thunderstorm near Sydney MI produced high winds which   
               spun a car around 180 degrees.   
       In 1988 Afternoon highs of 88 degrees at Astoria OR and 104 at   
               Medford OR were records for the date, and the number of   
               daily record highs across the nation since the first of   
               June topped the 2000 mark.   
       In 1989 Evening thunderstorms in the central U.S. produced golf   
               ball size hail at May City IA, and wind gusts to 66 mph   
               at Balltown IA.  Lightning struck a barn in Fayette   
               County IA killing 750 hogs.  Evening thunderstorms   
               in Montana produced wind gusts to 70 mph at Havre.   
       In 1999 Hurricane Bret, which went from a category 1 to a   
               category 4 hurricane in under 12 hours, slammed into   
               the south Texas coast near Baffin Bay, with 140 mph   
               winds, a 15 foot storm surge, and rainfall totals of   
               over 30 inches in some areas. Corpus Christi, north of   
               Bret...and Brownsville, south of Bret...missed the full   
               force of the storm, but still had heavy rain and wind.   
      
      
   --- GTMail 1.26    
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