TODAY  Version 3.7   06/24/94       Copyright 1986, 1994  By Patrick Kincaid   
      
    Today is Wednesday  December 9, 2015.   
    This is the 343rd day of the year, there are 22 days left.   
      
    On this day...   
       Weather data after 1990 is PARTIAL. For more current   
       weather history, go to the National Climate Data Center   
       website at www.ncdc.noaa.gov   
       In 1786 A second great snowstorm in just five days brought   
               another 15 inches of snow to Morristown NJ, on top of the   
               8 inches which fell on the 7th and 8th, and the 18 inches   
               which fell on the 4th and 5th.  The total snowfall for   
               the week was thus 41 inches.  New Haven CT received 17   
               inches of new snow in the storm.  Up to four feet of   
               snow covered the ground in eastern Massachusetts   
               following the storms.  (9th-10th)   
       In 1917 A severe winter storm struck the Ohio Valley and the   
               Great Lakes Region.  It produced 25 inches of snow   
               and wind gusts to 78 mph at Buffalo NY.  The storm   
               produced 26 inches of snow at Vevay IN, with drifts   
               fourteen feet high.  By the 16th of the month people   
               could walk across the frozen Ohio River from Vavey into   
               Kentucky.  (8th-9th)   
       In 1987 The fifth storm in nine days kept the northwestern U.S.   
               wet and windy.  Winds along the coast of Washington   
               gusted to 75 mph at Oceans Shores and at Hoquiam, and the   
               northern and central coastal mountains of Oregon were   
               drenched with three inches of rain in ten hours, flooding   
               some rivers.  Snowfall totals in the Cascade Mountains of   
               Washington State ranged up to 36 inches in the Methow   
               Valley.  High winds in Oregon blew a tree onto a moving   
               automobile killing three persons and injuring two others   
               at Mill City.   
       In 1988 A winter storm blanketed the Southern and Central   
               Appalachians with up to ten inches of snow.  Arctic air   
               invaded the north central U.S. bringing subzero cold to   
               Minnesota and North Dakota.   
       In 1989 A strong storm produced wind gusts of 40 to 65 mph from   
               the Alaska Peninsula to the North Gulf Coast of Alaska.   
               Southeasterly winds gusted to 75 mph in the Anchorage   
               hillside.  Gusty winds associated with a strong cold   
               front caused a power outage across much of the island of   
               Hawaii.   
       In 2003 A Gale Center in the far Eastern Atlantic Ocean acquired   
               tropical characteristics, becoming Tropical Storm Peter,   
               the 16th named storm of the 2003 Atlantic Hurricane Season.   
               The storm briefly became a hurricane, according to satellite   
               estimates...but merged with a cold front and became   
               extratropical within a short time. (9th-10th)   
      
      
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