TODAY  Version 3.7   06/24/94       Copyright 1986, 1994  By Patrick Kincaid   
      
    Today is Saturday  January 19, 2013.   
    This is the 19th day of the year, there are 346 days left.   
      
    On this day...   
       In 1810 The famous "cold day" in New England.  Gale force winds   
               wrecked homes, and accompanied a sudden overnight drop in   
               temperature of 50 degrees.  Tradgedy struck Sanbornton NH   
               where three chidren froze to death.   
       In 1933 Giant Forest CA received 60 inches of snow in just 24 hours,   
               a state record, and the second highest 24 hour total of   
               record for the U.S.   
       In 1977 Snowflakes were observed at Homestead and Miami Beach in   
               extreme southern Florida...the first time snow fell there   
               since weather records were kept. Just north of Miami in   
               Carol City, 3 inches of snow was measured.   
       In 1987 A storm tracking toward the northeastern U.S. produced up to   
               14 inches of snow in northern Indiana.  Peru IN reported a   
               foot of snow.  Six cities in Florida reported new record   
               high temperatures for the date.  The afternoon high of 88   
               degrees at Miami equalled their record for the month of   
               January.   
       In 1988 A powerful storm hit the central U.S. producing blizzard   
               conditions in the Central High Plains, and severe   
               thunderstorms in the Lower Mississippi Valley.  Snowfall   
               totals ranged up to 36 inches at Wolf Creek Pass CO, with   
               31 inches at Elsmere NE. Tornadoes claimed five lives in   
               Tennessee, and a tornado at Cullman AL injured 35 persons.   
       In 1989 The high temperature for the day at Fairbanks AK was a frigid   
               41 degrees below zero, and the morning low of 24 degrees   
               below zero at Anchorage AK was their coldest reading in   
               fourteen years.   
       In 1990 Thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds in   
               eastern Texas and Louisiana.  Tornadoes at Garland TX and   
               Apple Springs TX each injured one person.  Heavy snow spread   
               from the Southern and Central Rockies into the Great Plains.   
               Storm totals in New Mexico reached 36 inches at Gascon.   
               Totals in the Central Plains ranged up to 15 inches near   
               McCook NE and Garden City KS.   
       In 2004 (17th-19th) A surprise tropical cyclone formed in the south   
               Atlantic Ocean, and came ashore in Brazil, bringing flooding   
               rains to many areas. It was only the second tropical system   
               in the south Atlantic, since one off of Angola in 1991.   
      
      
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