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NOVEMBER 18TH, 1955 |
An early season cold snap finally came to an end. Helena MT experienced 138 consecutive hours of subzero temperatures, including a reading of 29 below zero, which surpassed by seven degrees their previous record for the month of November. Missoula MT broke their November record by 12 degrees with a reading of 23 below zero, and Salt Lake City UT smashed their previous November record of zero with a reading of 14 below. Heavy snow in the Great Basin closed Donner Pass CA, and total crop damage from the cold wave amounted to eleven million dollars.
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NOVEMBER 18TH, 1873 |
A severe storm raged from Georgia to Nova Scotia causing great losses to fishing fleets along the coast. In Maine, the barometric pressure reached 28.49 inches at Portland.
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NOVEMBER 17TH, 1869 |
Southwest winds of hurricane force swept the Berkshire and Green Mountains of New England causing extensive forest and structural damage.
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NOVEMBER 17TH, 1927 |
A tornado cut a seventeen mile path across Alexandria and southeastern Washington D.C. injuring 31 persons. The tornado struck the Naval Air Station where a wind gust of 93 mph was recorded. A waterspout was seen over the Potomac River ninety minutes later.
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NOVEMBER 16TH, 1959 |
The most severe November cold wave in U.S. history was in progress. A weather observing station located 14 miles northeast of Lincoln MT reported a reading of 53 degrees below zero, which established an all-time record low temperature for the nation for the month of November. Their high that day was one degree above zero.
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NOVEMBER 16TH, 1987 |
High winds and heavy snow created blizzard conditions across parts of eastern Colorado. Wind gusts reached 68 mph at Pueblo, and snowfall totals ranged up to 37 inches at Echo Lake. In Wyoming, the temperature dipped to 14 degrees below zero at Laramie. Strong thunderstorms in Louisiana drenched Alexandria with 16.65 inches of rain in thirty hours, with an unofficial total of 21.21 inches north of Olla. Flash flooding in Louisiana caused five to six million dollars damage.
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NOVEMBER 15TH, 1900 |
A record lake-effect snowstorm at Watertown NY produced 45 inches in 24 hours. The storm total was 49 inches.
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NOVEMBER 15TH, 1967 |
A surprise snow and ice coating paralyzed Boston during the evening rush hour.
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NOVEMBER 14TH, 1985 |
In Colombia a mudflow, said to be a fifth the size of the gigantic Amazon River, covers the town of Armero and destroys Chinchina, killing 25,000 people, following an eruption of the Nevada del Ruiz volcano, 85 miles northwest of Bogota.
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NOVEMBER 14TH, 1974 |
A storm produced 15 inches of snow at the Buffalo NY airport, and 30 inches on the south shore of Lake Erie.
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NOVEMBER 13TH, 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.
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