TODAY  Version 3.7   06/24/94       Copyright 1986, 1994  By Patrick Kincaid   
      
    Today is Tuesday  November 13, 2012.   
    This is the 318th day of the year, there are 48 days left.   
      
    On this day...   
       In 1933 The first dust storm of the great dust bowl era of the   
               1930s occurred.  The dust storm, which had spread from   
               Montana to the Ohio Valley the day before, prevailed from   
               Georgia to Maine resulting in a black rain over New York   
               and a brown snow in Vermont.  Parts of South Dakota,   
               Minnesota and Iowa reported zero visibility on the 12th.   
               On the 13th, dust reduced the visibility to half a mile   
               in Tennessee.   
       In 1946 General Electric scientists produced snow in the   
               Massachusetts Berkshires in the first modern day cloud   
               seeding experiment.   
       In 1953 Strong southeasterly winds associated with a Pacific cold   
               front reached 70 mph at Sacramento CA to equal their all-   
               time record.  The previous record had been established in   
               a similar weather pattern on December 12th of the   
               previous year.   
       In 1981 A powerful cyclone brought high winds to Oregon and   
               Washington.  The cyclone, which formed about 1000 miles   
               west of San Francisco, intensified rapidly as it   
               approached the Oregon coast with the central pressure   
               reaching 28.22 inches (956 millibars).  A wind trace from   
               the Whiskey Run Turbine Site, about 12 miles south of   
               Coos Bay in Oregon, showed peak gusts to 97 mph fifty   
               feet above ground level.  The wind caused widespread   
               damage in Washington and Oregon, with 12 deaths reported.   
               As much as four feet of snow fell in the Sierra Nevada   
               Range of northern California.   
       In 1987 A storm moving off the Pacific Ocean produced rain and   
               gale force winds along the northern and central Pacific   
               coast, and heavy snow in the Cascade Mountains.  Cold   
               weather prevailed in the southeastern U.S.  Five cities   
               reported record low temperatures for the date, including   
               Asheville NC with a reading of 21 degrees.   
       In 1988 Low pressure brought rain and snow and gusty winds to the   
               northeastern U.S.  A thunderstorm drenched Agawam MA with   
               1.25 inches of rain in fifteen minutes.  Winds gusted to   
               58 mph at Nantucket MA.   
       In 1989 Thirty-two cities in the central and eastern U.S.   
               reported record high temperatures for the date as   
               readings warmed into the 70s as far north as Michigan and   
               Pennsylvania.  Afternoon highs in the 80s were reported   
               from the Southern Plains to the southern Atlantic coast.   
               Columbia SC reported a record high of 86 degrees, and the   
               high of 71 degrees at Flint MI was their warmest of   
               record for so late in the season.   
      
      
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