TODAY  Version 3.7   06/24/94       Copyright 1986, 1994  By Patrick Kincaid   
      
    Today is Wednesday  August 29, 2012.   
    This is the 242nd day of the year, there are 124 days left.   
      
    On this day...   
       In 1962 Hackberry LA was deluged with 22.00 inches of rain in 24   
               hours, establishing a state record.   
       In 1965 A national record for the month of August was established   
               when 2.5 inches of snow fell atop Mount Washington NH.   
               Temperatures in New England dipped to 39 degrees at   
               Nantucket MA, and to 25 degrees in Vermont.  It was the   
               earliest freeze of record for many locations.  The   
               temperature at Chicago IL dipped to 43 degrees.   
       In 1978 A tornado from Tropical Storm Debra wrecked parts of Memphis,   
               coming within a mile of Elvis Presley's Graceland.   
       In 1987 Some of the most powerful thunderstorms in several years   
               developed over the piedmont of North Carolina, and   
               marched across central sections of the state during the   
               late afternoon and evening hours.  Baseball size hail was   
               reported around Albemarle, while thunderstorm winds   
               downed giant trees around High Falls.   
       In 1988 Cool air invaded the north central U.S.  Ten cities   
               reported record low temperatures for the date, including   
               Bismarck ND with a reading of 33 degrees.  Deerfield, a   
               small town in the Black Hills of South Dakota, reported   
               a morning low of 23 degrees.  The remnants of Tropical   
               Storm Chris drenched eastern Pennsylvania with up to 5.50   
               inches of rain, and produced high winds which gusted to   
               90 mph, severely damaging a hundred boats in Anne Krundel   
               County MD.   
       In 1989 Evening thunderstorms produced destructive lightning in   
               West Virginia.  The lightning caused widepsread damage,   
               particularily in Doddridge County.  Numerous trees were   
               downed closing many roads.  Fire companies had a   
               difficult time tending to the many homes and trailers on   
               fire.  Anchorage AK reported a record 9.60 inches of rain   
               for the month of August.  The average annual   
               precipitation for Anchorage is just slighty more than   
               fifteen inches.  Three day rainfall totals in northwest   
               Missouri ranged up to 8.20 inches at Maryville.   
       In 2004 For the fourth time in a month, the Carolina coast was   
               was affected by a tropical weather system. After   
               Hurricane Alex on the 3rd and 4th, the remnants of   
               Tropical Storm Bonnie on the 12th, Hurricane Charley   
               on the 14th, Tropical Storm Gaston with 70 mph winds,   
               came ashore on the 29th near Charleston. After bringing   
               heavy rain, flooding, and tornadoes to the region, the   
               storm was picked up by an approaching cold front, which   
               turned Gaston north, then northeast off the U.S. Coast   
               on the 30th (29th-30th)...but not before bringing severe   
               flooding to the Richmond, Virginia area. That same day,   
               Tropical Storm Hermine formed in the Atlantic, a record   
               8th named storm for the month of August. Hermine made   
               landfall near New Bedford, Massachusetts on the 31st,   
               before becoming extratropical.   
      
      
   --- GTMail 1.26    
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