Weather History
For Thursday,August 22,2013
For Thursday,August 22,2013
1816 - The growing season for corn was cut short as damaging frosts were
reported from North Carolina to interior New England
1923 - The temperature at Anchorage, AK, reached 82 degrees, a record for
August for the location which was later tied on the 2nd in 1978.
1987 - A cold front lowered temperatures 20 to 40 degrees across the north
central U.S., and produced severe thunderstorms in Ohio and Lower
Michigan. An early morning thunderstorm near Sydney MI produced high
winds which spun a car around 180 degrees.
1988
- Afternoon highs of 88 degrees at Astoria, OR, and 104 degrees at
Medford, OR, were records for the date, and the number of daily record
highs across the nation since the first of June topped the 2000 mark.
1989
- Evening thunderstorms in the central U.S. produced golf ball size
hail at May City IA, and wind gusts to 66 mph at Balltown IA. Lightning
struck a barn in Fayette County IA killing 750 hogs. Evening
thunderstorms in Montana produced wind gusts to 70 mph at Havre.
1992
- Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in Southern Florida as a Category 5
storm with wind guests estimated in excess of 175 m.p.h. Estimated
damages exceeded $20 billion, more than 60 people were killed and
approximately 2 million people were evacuated from their homes.
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