TODAY  Version 3.7   06/24/94       Copyright 1986, 1994  By Patrick Kincaid   
      
    Today is Saturday  December 15, 2012.   
    This is the 350th day of the year, there are 16 days left.   
      
    On this day...   
       In 1839 The first of triple storms hit Massachusetts Bay.  The   
               storm produced whole gales, and more than 20 inches of   
               snow in interior New England.  There was great loss of   
               life at Gloucester MA.   
       In 1901 An intense cold front swept across the eastern U.S.   
               It produced heavy rain in Louisiana, and heavy snow   
               in the northeastern U.S.   
       In 1945 A record December snowstorm buried Buffalo NY under 36.6   
               inches of snow, with unofficial totals south of the city   
               ranging up to 70 inches.  Travel was brought to a halt by   
               the storm.  (14th-17th)   
       In 1987 A major winter storm hit the Great Lakes Region,   
               intensifying explosively as it crossed northern Illinois.   
               High winds and heavy snow created blizzard conditions in   
               southeastern Wisconsin.  Winds gusted to 73 mph, and   
               snowfall totals ranged up to 17 inches at LaFarge.  The   
               barometric pressure at Chicago IL dropped three quarters   
               of an inch in six hours to 28.96 inches, a record low   
               reading for December.  Up to a foot of snow blanketed   
               northern Illinois, and winds in the Chicago area gusted   
               to 75 mph.  O'Hare Airport in Chicago was closed for   
               several hours, for only the fourth time in twenty years.   
               High winds derailed train cars at Avon IN.  Light winds   
               and partly sunny skies were reported near the center of   
               the storm, a feature typical of tropical storms.   
       In 1988 High pressure in the Pacific Northwest and low pressure   
               in the southwestern U.S. combined to produced high winds   
               from Utah to California.  Winds gusting to 70 mph in the   
               San Francisco area left nearly 300,000 residents without   
               electricity.  Winds in Utah gusted to 105 mph at   
               Centerville.   
       In 1989 A couple of low pressure systems spread heavy snow across   
               the northeastern U.S.  Up to two feet of snow was   
               reported along Lake Erie in northeastern Ohio, and up to   
               ten inches was reported in Connecticut.  Heavy snow   
               squalls developed over Michigan for the third day in a   
               row.  Three Oaks MI reported 25 inches of snow in two   
               days.  Twenty-six cities in the north central U.S.   
               reported record low temperatures for the date.  The low   
               of 10 degrees below zero at Wichita KS was a December   
               record for that location.   
       In 2001 (15th-16th) Torrential thunderstorm rains brought severe   
               flooding to Arkansas and surrounding states. River Flood   
               Warnings were issued for many rivers across the state;   
               some rivers experienced their worst flooding in 40 years.   
               Storm totals ranged from around an inch in southeast   
               Arkansas (which had severe flooding just weeks earlier),   
               to over 7 inches of rain in portions of north and west   
               Arkansas.   
      
      
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