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January 1

• 1947: A severe hailstorm injured around 1000 people in Sydney, Australia.
• 1970: The most destructive tornado in Australian history struck Bulahdelah, New South Wales.
• 1918: The Australian Bureau of Meteorology formally commenced operations.
• 1993: Cyclone Kina passed between the Fijian islands of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, causing near-record rainfall of more than 1,000 millimetres (39 in) and killing 23 people.
• 1990: Shortly after midnight, Cyclone Alibera made landfall near Mananjary, Fianarantsoa, Madagascar, killing 15 people.

January 2

• 1960: The highest temperature in Australian history, 50.7 °C (123.3 °F), was recorded at Oodnadatta, South Australia.
• 2013: Mountaineer Ian McKeever was struck and killed by lightning while hiking on Mount Kilimanjaro.
• 1999: A blizzard brought up to 18.6 inches (47 cm) of snow to Chicago, its largest one-day snowfall total on record. The storm would bring heavy snow and record low temperatures to a large portion of the Midwestern United States and southern Canada over the next several days.
• 1976: A severe gale began affecting western Europe, bringing wind gusts of more than 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) to the British Isles.
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January 3

• 1913: A severe nor'easter brought the lowest barometric pressure reading for a non-tropical system ever measured in the continental United States, with a pressure of 955.0 mb (28.20 inHg) recorded in Canton, New York.
• 1999: A blizzard began dropping snow on the Midwestern United States, eventually disrupting travel and causing record low temperatures from Illinois to Ontario and Quebec.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 3/2

January 4

• 1841: The steamship SS Thames wrecked in a severe winter storm in the Isles of Scilly southwest of Cornwall, England, killing 61 of the 65 passengers.
• 2008: Cyclone Helen made landfall in the Northern Territory of Australia with 10-minute maximum sustained winds of 95 kilometres per hour (59 mph). One person was killed due to flooding.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 4/2

January 5

• 1998: Cyclone Susan reached peak intensity as a Category 5 storm on the Australian cyclone scale it approached Vanuatu.
• 2004: Cyclone Heta reached peak intensity near the island of Niue.
• 1950: A Lisunov Li-2 carrying most of VVS Moscow (the ice hockey team of the Soviet Air Forces) crashed while attempting to land at Koltsovo Airport, Yekaterinburg, USSR (now Russia) during a major snowstorm, killing all on board.
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January 6

• 1996: The Blizzard of '96 began pounding the Eastern United States, and would eventually dump 2–4 feet (0.61–1.2 m) of snow on an area from Tennessee to Massachusetts.
• 2004: Cyclone Heta passed through the Samoan Islands, causing moderate damage and killing one person.
• 2005: Tropical Storm Zeta finally dissipated over the open Atlantic Ocean, several days after it was forecast to diminish. It was the final storm of the hyperactive 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.
• 1998: Cyclone Ron, the strongest tropical cyclone on record to impact Tonga, passed just 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Niuafoʻou, with maximum sustained winds of 165 mph (265 km/h).
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January 7

• 1839: Known as the Night of the Big Wind, a European windstorm swept across Ireland, killing between 250 and 300 people.
• 1987: A major cold snap began in the United Kingdom and Ireland, bringing temperatures as low as −23.3 °C (−9.9 °F) and up to 75 centimetres (30 in) of snow.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 7/2

January 8

• 1988: Typhoon Roy passed near Majuro atoll, Marshall Islands, causing moderate damage across the island chain and killing one person.
• 2005: European windstorm Gudrun struck Sweden and Denmark with wind gusts of up to 165 kilometers per hour (103 mph), killing 12 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 8/2

January 9

• 1880: The Great Gale of 1880 struck the Pacific Northwest.
• 1975: The Great Storm of 1975 began causing blizzard conditions in the Central Plains while spawning tornadoes in the Southern United States. Over the next 3 days, more than 2 feet (61 cm) of snow would fall on some locations, while 45 tornadoes touched down. Twelve people were killed by the storm.
• 1998: Cyclone Katrina, a long-lived South Pacific tropical cyclone that meandered east of Australia for more than three weeks, reached peak intensity northwest of Vanuatu, with 1-minute maximum sustained winds of 165 km/h (105 mph).
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 9/3

January 10

• 1973: A devastating tornado, the deadliest in South American history, killed 54 people in San Justo, Santa Fe, Argentina.
• 1993: The Braer Storm of January 1993, the strongest extratropical cyclone on record in the northern Atlantic Ocean, reached peak intensity, with a minimum barometric pressure of 914 millibars (27.0 inHg).
• 1998: A crippling ice storm came to an end after four days of freezing rain across parts of the Northeastern United States and southeastern Canada, resulting in more than $5 billion (USD) in damage from up to 5 inches (13 cm) of ice accumulation.
• 2005: After 15 days of heavy rain, a landslide destroyed 13 houses in the community of La Conchita, California, killing 10 people.
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January 11

• 1898: A tornado killed 55 people in Fort Smith, Arkansas overnight. This is tied for the deadliest tornado in Arkansas state history.
• 2011: A deadly series of floods and mudslides began in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, killing more than 900 people.
• 2014: Cyclone Ian struck the Haʻapai islands of Tonga, destroying hundreds of homes and killing one person.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 11/3

January 12

• 1888: The Schoolhouse Blizzard resulted in the deaths of 236 people in the northern Great Plains.
• 1954: A series of avalanches killed 125 people in the state of Vorarlberg, Austria, including three separate avalanches which killed 57 people in the village of Blons.
• 2006: Cyclone Tam passed near Niuafoʻou, Tonga, but little damage was reported. The previous day, the storm dumped 293.2 millimetres (11.54 in) of rain on Rotuma, Fiji in just 24 hours, a record for the island.
• 1988: Cyclone Anne made landfall on New Caledonia, killing two people. Anne was the strongest tropical cyclone to affect the French Overseas Territory on record.
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January 13

• 1979: A major snowstorm affected the Chicago area, dropping record snowfall of more than 16 inches (410 mm) in one day.
• 1982: Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the Potomac River as a result of severe icing in a snowstorm, killing 78 people.
• 2003: Cyclone Ami, one of the worst tropical cyclones to ever strike Fiji, made landfall on Vanua Levu and Taveuni, killing 12 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 13/3

January 14

• 1888: A severe cold wave associated with a blizzard two days earlier reached its peak. The temperature reached −65 °F (−54 °C) at Fort Keogh in Montana, the second lowest temperature ever recorded in the Contiguous United States.
• 2007: European windstorm Per struck parts of Scandinavia, killing six people.
• 2016: Hurricane Alex, an unusual January hurricane, reached peak intensity near the Azores.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 14/3

January 15

• 1919: The Great Molasses Flood, a flood of molasses from a ruptured storage tank, caused in part by unusually warm temperatures, killed 21 people in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 1968: A major extratropical storm struck the northern United Kingdom, bringing winds of up to 134 miles per hour (216 km/h) that damaged more than 70,000 homes in Glasgow alone. At least 28 people were killed.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 15/2

January 16

• 1362: An unprecedented storm surge in the Netherlands resulted in Grote Mandrenke, Dutch for "Great Drowning of Men": at least 25,000 people were killed.
• 1983: Turkish Airlines Flight 158 crashed short of the runway at Ankara Esenboğa Airport in Ankara, Turkey due to whiteout conditions in a severe snowstorm. Forty seven out of 67 on board were killed.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 16/2

January 17

• 1706: Benjamin Franklin, who would invent the lightning rod and introduce revolutionary concepts to meteorology, was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 1977: Snow was reported for the first time in West Palm Beach, Miami, and as far south as Homestead, Florida.
• 1982: An unprecedented outbreak of cold weather known as Cold Sunday brought record low temperatures to much of the Eastern United States.
• 2008: Cyclone Funa passed near the island of Maewo, Vanuatu, causing significant damage across the island nation.
• 1985: Cyclone Eric made landfall on Viti Levu, Fiji, followed less than two days later by Cyclone Nigel. The two storms together killed 25 people on the island.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 17/5

January 18

• 1993: An avalanche killed 59 people in Bayburt Province in northeastern Turkey.
• 2016: An avalanche struck a group of French Foreign Legionnaires during a ski mountaineering exercise in the Massif des Cerces, France, killing 6 people.
• 2017: An avalanche destroyed a hotel in the town of Farindola in the Province of Pescara, Italy, killing 29 people.
• 2012: An avalanche destroyed 72 homes in the village of Üzengili, Bayburt Province, Turkey, killing 59 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 18/4

January 19

• 1995: A helicopter crashed in the North Sea after being struck by lightning. Despite the high seas and stormy weather, all 18 passengers and crew were rescued.
• 2007: European windstorm Kyrill moved over the Baltic Sea towards northern Russia, after leaving a path of destruction from winds greater than 200 kilometres per hour (120 mph) across northern Europe. At least 44 people were killed.
• 2008: The Pacific Star, a cruise ship based out of New Zealand, ran into large waves caused by Cyclone Funa, suffering significant damage and several injuries to passengers.
• 1996: The remnants of Cyclone Bonita passed westward over Angola and into the South Atlantic Ocean. Bonita is the first known tropical cyclone to have its remnants affect this area.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 19/4

January 20

• 1910: The Seine river overflowed its banks, marking the beginning of the Great Flood of Paris.
• 2005: A two day storm began that would drop 1–3 feet (30–91 cm) of snow over parts of New England.
• 2011: Elektro-L No.1, a Russian weather satellite, was launched into geostationary orbit.
• 2014: Tropical Storm Lingling dissipated east of the Philippines, but not before causing several days of heavy rain and landslides that killed 70 people.

January 21

• 2009: In the early morning, Cyclone Fanele struck the east coast of Madagascar, killing 10 people.
• 2010: Cyclone Magda made landfall in the sparsely populated Kimberley Region of Western Australia, causing only minor damage and no injuries.
• 2006: The International Cloud Experiment, a scientific expedition to gather information on cirrus clouds in the tropics, began.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 21/3

January 22

• 1999: One person was killed in Tennessee on the second day of a two-day tornado outbreak.
• 2016: A major blizzard began to affect the Mid-Atlantic region, ultimately resulting in all-time record snowfalls for a large portion of the United States.
• 2012: Cyclone Dina passed just 65 kilometres (40 mi) from Réunion, bringing winds of at least 170 mph (270 km/h) and record flooding to the island. As much as 2,102 millimetres (82.8 in) of rain fell in just 3 days.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 22/3

January 23

• 1971: The temperature dropped to −80 °F (−62 °C) in Prospect Creek, Alaska, the coldest temperature ever recorded in the United States.
• 2011: Cyclone Wilma passed through the islands of American Samoa, killing 3 people.
• 2005: Cyclone Ernest made landfall at Itampolo, Madagascar, killing 78 people.
• 1862: The capital city of California was temporarily moved from Sacramento to San Francisco, due to the former city being entirely inundated by the worst flooding in recorded history.
• 1970: The TIROS-M weather satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex 2.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 23/5

January 24

• 1967: A rare winter tornado outbreak affected the area around Saint Louis, Missouri, killing 3 people. The next day, thunderstorms produced sleet, freezing rain, and snow in the same areas.
• 2009: European windstorm Klaus made landfall near Bordeaux, France, with wind gusts of up to 200 kilometres per hour (120 mph).
• 1997: Cyclone Gretelle made landfall near Farafangana, Madagascar, killing 152 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 24/3

January 25

• 1990: A European windstorm known as the Burns' Day Storm killed almost 100 people, mainly in the United Kingdom.
• 2008: The first in a series of winter storms impacted China, beginning what would be China's most severe winter in half a century.
• 2009: An avalanche killed 11 hikers in Gümüşhane Province, Turkey.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 25/3

January 26

• 1967: A major blizzard dumped 23 inches (58 cm) of snow in Chicago, a record amount for a single storm.
• 1978: The Great Blizzard of 1978 struck the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley with several feet of snow and winds gusting to 100 mph. Seventy people died in the storm.
• 1980: Cyclone Hyacinthe dropped 1,095 millimetres (43.1 in) of rain in just 12 hours on Réunion, part of a historic 15-day period where up to 6,083 millimetres (239.5 in) of rain fell on parts of the island.
• 1967: The ESSA-4 weather satellite was launched.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 26/4

January 27

• 1982: The World Airways Flight 30 skidded off an icy runway at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, killing 2 people.
• 2008: Cyclone Gene made landfall on Fiji, killing 8 people.
• 1998: Cyclone Les caused record flooding in Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia, killing 3 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 27/3

January 28

• 1922: The Knickerbocker storm, one of the worst blizzards ever to strike Washington, D.C., collapsed the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater, killing 98 people.
• 1977: A severe blizzard which would last five days hit western New York, causing snow drifts up to 40 feet (12 m) high and killing 23 people.
• 2004: Cyclone Elita made its first of three landfalls on Madagascar.
• 2013: The remnants of Cyclone Oswald, which had brought heavy rain to parts of northeastern Australia for several days, caused several rivers to reach their historical peak flood levels in Queensland and New South Wales.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 28/4

January 29

• 1984: Tropical Storm Domoina, a day after making landfall in Mozambique, began bringing record rainfall that would eventually total more than 900 millimetres (35 in) to Swaziland (since 2018 renamed to Eswatini) and parts of South Africa.
• 1992: Hurricane Ekeka became the earliest and southernmost hurricane on record to form in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
• 1989: Cyclone Firinga dropped torrential rain on the French overseas department of Réunion, including 1,309 millimetres (51.5 in) at Pas de Bellecombe in just 24 hours.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 29/3

January 30

• 1916: The Sweetwater Dam in San Diego County, California was overtopped due to severe flooding.
• 1930: The first radiosonde was launched in Pavlovsk, USSR by Pavel Molchanov, sending weather data from high in the atmosphere to the Leningrad Weather Bureau and Moscow Central Forecast Institute.
• 2009: A severe heat wave reached its peak in southeastern Australia, with nearly half of Tasmania recording all-time record temperatures as high as 42 °C (108 °F).
• 1607: Severe flooding struck the lowland regions around the Bristol Channel in Wales and England, sweeping away entire villages and killing around 2,000 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 30/4

January 31

• 1966: Oswego, New York received 50 inches (127 cm) of snow, which was the last of five consecutive days of heavy snow.
• 2019: The state of Illinois measured its coldest temperature on record: −38 °F (−39 °C) in the town of Mount Carroll. This was part of a major outbreak of cold weather across central North America which lasted for several weeks.
• 2007: A snowfall with an orange color and a foul smell fell over parts of Russia, likely due to a distant dust storm.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 31/3

February 1

• 1953: Dikes which had burst overnight let loose a severe flood into many areas of northwestern Europe.
• 1976: The first WSR-74 weather radar went online in Corpus Christi, Texas. An improvement on the old WSR-57 systems, 62 would eventually be installed in the United States before being replaced by the much more advanced NEXRAD Doppler radar.
• 1986: Cyclone Winifred made landfall in northern Queensland, killing 3 people.
• 1992: An avalanche killed 97 people in Gümüşhane Province in southeast Turkey.
• 2007: The National Weather Service began using the Enhanced Fujita scale for assessing tornado damage.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/February 1/5

February 2

• 1918: A tornado killed two people in Brighton, Victoria, Australia.
• 1976: The Groundhog Day Gale affected Northeast United States and Atlantic Canada, dropping more than 50 inches (1300 mm) of snow and causing significant coastal flooding.
• 1992: Hurricane Ekeka, an unusual winter hurricane that formed unusually far south, reached peak intensity near the International Date Line with maximum sustained winds of 115 miles per hour (185 km/h).
• 1994: Cyclone Geralda, one of the strongest tropical cyclones to ever hit Madagascar, moved onshore near Toamasina, killing more than 200 people across the island country.
• 2011: Cyclone Yasi passed directly over uninhabited Willis Island in the Coral Sea Islands of Australia, completely destroying a weather station and destroying most vegetation on the island.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/February 2/5

February 3

• 1952: The Groundhog Day Storm (not to be confused with the Groundhog Day Gale) brushed by western Cuba and made landfall on southern Florida, the earliest in the year that a North Atlantic tropical cyclone has done so.
• 1990: Cyclone Ofa began moving away from Samoa, leaving major damage and 8 people dead in its wake.
• 1966: The ESSA-1 weather satellite was launched.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/February 3/3

February 4

• 1995: A nor'easter began impacting the Northeastern United States with strong winds and up to 25 inches (64 cm) of snow.
• 2010: Cyclone Oli struck parts of French Polynesia, including Tahiti. One person was killed on the island of Tubuai.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/February 4/2

February 5

• 2002: Cyclone Chris, one of the strongest tropical cyclones to strike Western Australia on record, reached peak intensity just hours before landfall.
• 2008: The Super Tuesday tornado outbreak, the deadliest outbreak in the United States in over 20 years, produced 87 tornadoes which killed 57 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/February 5/2

February 6

• 1978: The Blizzard of '78, the worst storm in the area since 1888 and the second large blizzard in as many weeks to hit the eastern United States, began dropping more than 40 inches (100 cm) of snow on parts of the Northeastern United States.
• 1996: Heavy rain and warm temperatures started several days of significant flooding in the Pacific Northwest, resulting in more than $500 million in damage.
• 1958: A plane carrying the Manchester United football team, staff, and journalists, crashed during a takeoff attempt in a snowstorm at Munich-Riem Airport, West Germany, killing 23 people.
• 1893: A tropical cyclone brought extremely heavy rainfall to Queensland, Australia, with 907 millimetres (35.7 in) of rain recorded in just 24 hours at Crohamhurst. This resulted in the first of three major floods in less than a month to hit the Brisbane River. Thirty five people were killed in the floods.
• 1877: Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, the national weather forecasting organization for Mexico, was founded as El Observatorio Meteorológico y Astrónomico de México.
• 2009: The NOAA-19 weather satellite, which suffered serious damage during construction due to being accidentally dropped, was launched into a polar orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Despite the early mishap and repairs, the satellite exceeded its expected mission lifetime of 2-5 years, and was still functioning as of early 2020.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/February 6/6

February 7

• 2002: A strong windstorm known as the South Valley Surprise struck the Pacific Northwest with no warning due to the rapid deepening of the storm, causing major tree damage across the area.
• 2017: A strong tornado caused severe damage in New Orleans.
• 2009: Record high temperatures and strong, erratic winds contributed to the deadliest wildfires in Australia's history. 3,500 buildings were destroyed, and 173 people were killed.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/February 7/3

February 8

• 2012: Cyclone Jasmine reached peak intensity off the coast of New Caledonia, with 1-minute maximum sustained winds of 115 knots (215 km/h; 130 mph).
• 2013: A severe nor'easter began affecting the northeastern United States, bringing blizzard conditions and record snowfall to parts of New England.
• 1962: The TIROS-4 weather satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/February 8/3

February 9

• 1870: The National Weather Service (originally known as the United States Weather Bureau) was founded through a joint congressional resolution signed by President Ulysses S. Grant.
• 1969: A severe nor'easter brought unexpectedly heavy snow to the Northeastern United States, bringing over 40 inches (100 cm) of snow in some places and killing 94 people.
• 2010: A series of avalanches struck the southern approach to the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan, killing 172 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/February 9/3

February 10

• 1972: A week-long blizzard came to an end in the country of Iran, leaving around 4,000 people dead.
• 1994: Cyclone Hollanda struck the island nation of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, causing major damage and killing two people.
• 2013: A violent tornado caused major damage in the town of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, including damage to several buildings on the University of Southern Mississippi campus.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/February 10/3

February 11

• 1895: The lowest temperature in the United Kingdom, -27.2°C (-16.7°F), was measured at Braemar, Grampian, Scotland.
• 1999: Cyclone Rona made landfall on the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. Rainfall of up to 1,870 millimetres (74 in) caused historic flooding in the area that killed seven people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/February 11/2

February 12

• 1987: Tropical Storm Clotilda, which dropped 1,855 millimetres (73.0 in) of rain in La Plaine-des-Palmistes on Réunion over three days, passed within 80 km (50 mi) of the island while approaching peak intensity.
• 2006: New York City experienced its largest snowfall on record, 26.4 inches (67.1 cm).
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/February 12/2

February 13

• 1899: In the wake of a major blizzard that affected much of the eastern United States, hundreds of cities across the country, including Dallas, New Orleans, and Atlanta, set record low temperatures that still stand today. Several U.S. state records were set as well, in Nebraska, Ohio, Texas, and most notably Florida, where Tallahassee sank to −2 °F (−19 °C); the only time on record the state has seen temperatures below zero Fahrenheit.
• 2006: Cyclone Vaianu reached peak intensity near Tonga.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/February 13/2

February 14

• 2007: The Valentine's Day Storm hit its peak over the eastern half of North America. Up to 48 inches (120 cm) of snow fell in Vermont and 37 people were killed. The storm system also spawned a small tornado outbreak, killing one person near New Orleans.
• 2011: Cyclone Bingiza made landfall in northeastern Madagascar, killing 22 people.
• 2012: Cyclone Giovanna made landfall at Andevoranto, Madagascar, killing 35 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/February 14/3

February 15

• 1967: The TIROS-9 weather satellite ended its mission. The satellite was the first of the TIROS program to be in a near-polar orbit, allowing cloud cover pictures and radiometric temperature observations to cover the entire surface of the earth over the course of several orbits.
• 2005: Cyclone Nancy passed directly over the island of Manuae in the Cook Islands, causing major damage throughout the island chain.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/February 15/2

February 16

• 1962: Severe flooding began overnight on the north shore of Germany, particularly in Hamburg, killing more than 300 people.
• 2005: Cyclone Olaf struck areas of American Samoa, causing severe damage.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/February 16/2

February 17

• 1959: Vanguard 2, the first weather satellite, was launched, carrying a device to measure daytime cloud cover.
• 2003: A major snow storm dropped 15–30 inches (38–76 cm) of snow from Washington, D.C. to Boston in the Eastern United States.
• 2010: An avalanche killed at least 38 people in the Kohistan District of Pakistan.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/February 17/3

February 18

• 1952: A strong nor'easter caused the ship SS Pendleton to break in two off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. 32 of the 41 crew were saved in a daring rescue by the United States Coast Guard.
• 1972: Mount Rainier finished the snowiest one-year period ever recorded. From February 19, 1971 to February 18, 1972, 102 feet (33.1 meters) of snow fell near the summit.
• 2003: The "White Juan" blizzard caused record snowfall over the eastern provinces of Canada.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/February 18/3

February 19

• 1884: The Enigma tornado outbreak began, so named because records detailing the outbreak are very scarce. It may have been the worst tornado outbreak in United States history, producing at least 60 tornadoes, $60 million (2006 USD) in damage, and killing hundreds, perhaps more than 1000 people.
• 2012: An avalanche at Stevens Pass, Washington caught and buried a group of people, including some of the best free skiers and snowboarders in the country, killing three.
• 2015: Cyclone Lam and Cyclone Marcia, both severe tropical cyclones, struck Northern Territory and Queensland, Australia respectively on the same day.
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February 20

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February 21

• 1971: A tornado outbreak killed 121 people in Louisiana and Mississippi.
• 1986: The waters of Lake Michigan approached their maximum historic depth, causing severe flooding and coastal erosion.
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February 22

• 2000: Cyclone Eline made its final landfall near Beira, Mozambique, killing hundreds of people.
• 2007: Cyclone Favio made landfall in Inhambane Province, Mozambique, causing major damage in the town of Vilankulo where 80% of homes were destroyed.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/February 22/2

February 23

• 1998: The deadliest tornado outbreak in Florida history killed 42 people in the northern half of the peninsula just after midnight local time.
• 1999: An avalanche killed 31 people in the village of Galtür, Austria.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/February 23/2

February 24

• 2007: Cyclone Gamede made its closest approach to Réunion island, where it dropped a staggering 5.5 meters (18 ft) of rain over a nine-day period.
• 2015: A series of avalanches began in Panjshir Province, Afghanistan that would last for 5 days, killing at least 310 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/February 24/2

February 25

• 1955: The Hunter Valley flood began with a major levee failure near Maitland, New South Wales, Australia.
• 2004: Cyclone Ivy reached peak intensity over the Vanuatu archipelago, where it killed two people.
• 1979: The Voyager 1 spacecraft returned the first close-up images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, an extraterrestrial vortex that is the largest storm in the Solar System.
• 1995: Cyclone Bobby made landfall near Onslow, Western Australia, eventually bringing up to 400 millimetres (16 in) of rain to the Goldfields-Esperance region.
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February 26

• 2010: The third blizzard in less than a month struck the Northeastern United States. The three storms, colloquially referred to as "Snowmageddon", resulted in more than 40 deaths, and a large area of the United States receiving more than 3 feet (0.91 m) of snow.
• 1969: The ESSA-9 weather satellite was launched.
• 1987: The GOES 7 weather satellite was launched. Part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program, GOES 7 would provide weather forecasting data to the United States until its retirement and transfer to the PEACESAT program in 1999.
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February 27

• 1938: The first of two consecutive powerful storms struck the area around Los Angeles, California, resulting in major flooding which would kill 115 people.
• 2006: Cyclone Emma, a weak but unusually large tropical cyclone, made landfall in Western Australia, eventually causing rain across most of the territory.
• 2013: Cyclone Rusty, which brought gale-force winds to Port Hedland, Western Australia for a record 39 hours straight, made landfall near Pardoo Station.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/February 27/3

February 28

• 2003: Cyclone Graham made landfall at Eighty Mile Beach in Western Australia. One person drowned in the resulting flood.
• 2010: A European windstorm named Cyclone Xynthia battered Europe for the second day, causing widespread wind damage across the continent. Eventually more than €1.3 billion in damage would be attributed to the storm, and at least 51 people killed.
• 1966: The ESSA-2 weather satellite was launched.
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February 29

• 2004: Cyclone Monty reached its peak intensity off the Pilbara coast of Western Australia, with estimated wind gusts as high as 215 kilometres per hour (134 mph).
• 2012: A tornado outbreak killed 13 people in the Midwest and Upland South regions of the United States.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/February 29/2

March 1

• 1910: The deadliest avalanche in United States history killed 96 people in Wellington, Washington.
• 2007: A tornado outbreak killed 20 people in three states, including eight people at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama.
• 1997: A violent tornado outbreak struck the Southern United States, killing 27 people
• 2018: The GOES-17 geostationary weather satellite was launched.
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March 2

• 2005: Cyclone Percy reached a peak intensity of 260 kilometers per hour (160 mph) with a central pressure of 900 millibars (26.58 inHg), making it the second-most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the southern Pacific Ocean.
• 2012: One of the most violent March tornado outbreaks on record killed 40 people in the central and eastern United States, mostly in Indiana and Kentucky.
• 2003: Cyclone Japhet made landfall near Vilankulo, Mozambique, bringing torrential rain that helped relieve a drought but also brought floods that killed 25 people in Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
• 1883: The Hong Kong Observatory, the weather forecasting agency of Hong Kong, was founded.

March 3

• 1971: A large blizzard hit much of eastern Canada, killing over 30 people.
• 1966: An F5 tornado (now thought to be a tornado family) killed 58 people in a 200-mile (320 km) path through Mississippi and Alabama.
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March 4

• 1899: Cyclone Mahina, the deadliest tropical cyclone in Australian history, killed more than 400 in Far North Queensland.
• 2012: Several avalanches struck the Badakhshan Province in northeastern Afghanistan, killing more than 50 people.
• 1910: The deadliest avalanche in Canadian history killed 62 people near Rogers Pass, British Columbia.
• 1960: A nor'easter brought 31.3 inches (80 cm) of snow to Nantucket, Massachusetts, the most on record for the island.
• 1992: Cyclone Esau made landfall on New Caledonia, the strongest tropical cyclone on record to do so.
• 2010: The GOES 15 geostationary weather satellite was launched.
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March 5

• 1966: BOAC Flight 911 broke up in mid-air near Mount Fuji due to extreme turbulence, killing all 124 people aboard.
• 2002: Typhoon Mitag reached peak intensity over the northwestern Pacific Ocean with 1-minute maximum sustained winds of 260 km/h (160 mph). Mitag was the first super typhoon on record in the month of March.
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March 6

• 2008: A storm system that would impact most of the eastern half of North America and last for four days started to take shape in the southern United States. There were 15 reports of tornadoes, parts of Ohio would receive over 28 inches (71 cm) of snow, and 17 people were killed.
• 2010: A storm system brought high winds, large hail, and flooding to Melbourne and the surrounding area, causing at least $500 million in damage.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/March 6/2

March 7

• 1717: The Great Snow of 1717 finally came to an end, after weeks of heavy snow buried areas of the Northeastern United States with 5 feet (1.5 m) of snow or more.
• 2004: Cyclone Gafilo, the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the southern Indian Ocean, made landfall in Madagascar as a Category 5 storm.
• 1997: Cyclone Gavin struck Fiji, killing 18 people and causing millions of dollars in damage. It was the strongest tropical cyclone ever to affect the island.
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March 8

• 1988: The remnants of Cyclone Bola passed about 110 kilometers (70 mi) north of New Zealand, causing severe flooding on the North Island.
• 2008: Cyclone Jokwe made landfall between the Island of Mozambique and Angoche with winds over 200 kilometers per hour (120 mph).
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March 9

• 2000: Cyclone Steve made its fourth landfall near Denham, Western Australia. Steve was the only known tropical cyclone to make four landfalls on Australia.
• 2014: Cyclone Lusi formed near Vanuatu, causing major flooding over several days that killed 10 people.
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March 10

• 2007: Cyclone George dissipated over Western Australia.
• 2019: A storm which had been wandering near the coast of Mozambique for a week strengthened and was given the name Cyclone Idai. The storm would drift in and around the Mozambique Channel for several days, bringing flooding rains and damaging winds and storm surge that would eventually kill more than 700 people in southern Africa.
• 2005: Cyclone Ingrid made landfall on the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. This was its second of several landfalls across Northern Australia over the course of 10 days.
• 2010: Tropical Storm Hubert moved onshore near Mananjary, Fianarantsoa, Madagascar. Heavy rains led to flooding that killed at least 85 people.
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March 11

• 2007: Cyclone Hamish dissipated off the coast of Queensland.
• 2010: Severe flooding led to the failure of the Kyzyl-Agash Dam in Qyzylaghash, Almaty, Kazakhstan, killing at least 43 people.
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March 12

• 1888: The Great Blizzard of 1888 began dropping snow on the Northeastern United States. Eventually snow would drift as high as 40 to 50 feet (12 to 15 m), and 400 people would perish.
• 1993: What became known as the Storm of the Century began causing major damage across a large portion of the Southeastern United States and Cuba with heavy snows, strong winds, a storm surge, and tornadoes. The storm would eventually go on to have a major impact on the Northeastern United States and Atlantic Canada, and kill 300 people.
• 2006: The worst day of a multi-day outbreak of tornadoes struck the Midwestern and South Central United States, killing 9 people in Illinois and Missouri.
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March 13

• 1990: One of the most severe tornado outbreaks of all time struck the Great Plains, producing 4 violent tornadoes and killing 57 people.
• 2010: Cyclone Ului rapidly intensified to Category 5 on the Australian Scale, becoming one of the most intense storms on record in the South Pacific Ocean.
• 2015: Cyclone Pam began affecting the islands of Vanuatu, eventually killing 15 people.
• 2019: An extratropical storm system began to rapidly intensify over Colorado, bringing blizzard conditions and wind gusts as high as 97 miles per hour (156 km/h) to the state. This storm would move eastward across the Central United States, eventually causing record flooding in several states due to heavy rains and melting snow.
• 1979: Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600 flew into a thunderstorm while attempting to land at Doha International Airport, Qatar, encountering a microburst that forced the plane into the ground, killing 45 of the 64 people onboard.
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March 14

• 1862: Vilhelm Bjerknes, known as one of the founding fathers of weather forecasting, was born in Christiana (now Oslo), Norway.
• 2006: A dam holding back the Ka Loko Reservoir on the island of Kauai burst due to extremely heavy rains, killing seven people.
• 1933: A tornado outbreak struck parts of Tennessee, killing dozens of people, including 15 in Nashville.
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March 15

• 1889: The Apia cyclone wrecked or sunk six ships in the harbor of Apia, Samoa, killing at least 147 people.
• 1920: A severe blizzard began in North Dakota which would eventually kill 34 people.
• 2007: Cyclone Indlala made landfall in the Antalaha District of Madagascar, killing over 100 people.
• 2010: Cyclone Tomas made its closest approach to Vanua Levu, causing major damage throughout Fiji.
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March 16

• 1942: An extensive tornado outbreak struck the Midwestern United States, killing 152 people.
• 1942: The Weather Prediction Center (then known as the Analysis Center) began operations in Washington, D.C.
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March 17

• 1936: An extreme flood struck Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, eventually causing around $3 billion (2006 USD) in damage in the city.
• 2012: Cyclone Lua made landfall near Pardoo Station, Western Australia. Though the storm packed 1-minute maximum sustained winds of 175 kilometres per hour (109 mph), only minor damage was reported due to the sparse population of the area.
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March 18

• 1925: The Tri-State Tornado, the longest-tracked tornado in history, killed almost 700 people in the United States Midwest.
• 1966: United Arab Airlines Flight 749 crashed near Cairo International Airport, Egypt while attempting to land in a severe dust storm after sustaining damage while flying through a thunderstorm. All 30 passengers and crew were killed.
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March 19

• 1956: A severe nor'easter struck the Northeastern United States, leaving drifts of snow more than 10 feet (3.0 m) high in some areas.
• 2012: A weather radar system named OU-PRIME, used for teaching and research at the University of Oklahoma, was struck by lightning and disabled.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/March 19/2

March 20

• 2006: Cyclone Larry made landfall near Innisfail, Queensland, resulting in almost $1 billion (USD) in damage.
• 1969: A United Arab Airlines Ilyushin Il-18 crashed while attempting to land in a sandstorm at Aswan International Airport, Egypt, killing 100 of the 105 people on board.
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March 21

• 1932: A deadly tornado outbreak killed 330 people in the Southern United States, including 268 deaths in Alabama, the most in that state's history.
• 1952: A tornado outbreak killed more than 200 people in the Southern United States.
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March 22

• 1999: Cyclone Vance made landfall near Exmouth, Western Australia, where an Australian-record wind gust of 267 kilometers per hour (166 mph) was recorded.
• 2010: Severe storms struck the region around Perth, Western Australia, bringing high winds, large hail, and heavy flooding rains. It was the costliest natural disaster in the history of the territory, with more than A$1 billion in reported damage.
• 2014: Days of heavy rain led to a major mudslide which destroyed 49 homes east of Oso, Washington, killing 43 people.
• 1984: Cyclone Kathy struck the Sir Edward Pellew Group of Islands in northern Australia. A wind gust of 232 kilometres per hour (144 mph) was recorded on Centre Island before the anemometer was destroyed.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/March 22/4

March 23

• 1913: A tornado struck the city of Omaha, Nebraska on Easter Sunday, killing more than 100 people.
• 1923: Joanne Simpson, renowned research meteorologist and the first woman to receive a PhD in meteorology, was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 2014: Cyclone Gillian reached peak intensity over the southeastern Indian Ocean, with wind gusts of up to 315 kilometres per hour (195 mph).
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/March 23/3

March 24

• 1911: The passenger ship SS Yongala sank in a cyclone south of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. All 122 passengers and crew were lost.
• 1994: Cyclone Nadia made landfall in Mozambique between Nacala and the Island of Mozambique. The storm directly killed more than 200 people, and also disrupted the local harvest causing starvation which would kill hundreds more.
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March 25

• 1913: The worst flood in Ohio history began as levees protecting downtown Dayton failed.
• 1948: A second tornado in six days struck Tinker Air Force Base, after the first official tornado prediction ever issued.
• 1982: Typhoon Nelson made landfall on the central Philippines, killing 288 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/March 25/3

March 26

• 2009: Severe flooding exceeded 40 feet at Fargo, North Dakota, breaking a record set in 1897.
• 2007: Heavy rain began impacting central Argentina, eventually leading to severe flooding that would leave 15 dead.
• 1969: Meteor-1 1 the Soviet Union's first fully operational weather satellite, was launched.
• 1976: The National Institute for Seismology, Vulcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology of Guatemala was created.

March 27

• 1977: Two airplanes collided in heavy fog on a runway at Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, resulting in the deaths of 583 passengers. Known as the Tenerife disaster, it was the deadliest weather-related air disaster in world history.
• 2009: The dam holding back Situ Gintung, a lake near Jakarta, Indonesia, failed due to heavy rains in the early morning. At least 100 people died in the ensuing flood.
• 1890: A deadly tornado outbreak killed more than 100 people across the central United States, including at least 76 deaths in Louisville, Kentucky.
• 2004: Cyclone Fay moved onshore on the Pilbara coast of Western Australia, bringing record rainfall to the normally dry region—some places reported more than 700 millimetres (28 in) of rain in just 2 days.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/March 27/4

March 28

• 1920: A tornado outbreak killed more than 300 people in a large portion of the central and southeastern United States.
• 2004: Hurricane Catarina, the only known severe tropical cyclone ever to form in the southern Atlantic Ocean, made landfall north of Torres, Brazil. More than $350 million (USD) in damage and as many as 10 deaths were caused by the storm.
• 1983: NOAA-8, the first weather satellite of the Advanced TIROS-N series, was launched into a polar orbit.
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March 29

• 1998: A supercell dropped 13 tornadoes across southern Minnesota, killing two people in the state's earliest tornado outbreak on record.
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March 30

• 2006: Cyclone Glenda, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever in the Australian region, made landfall near Onslow, Western Australia.
• 1915: Herbert Riehl, a meteorologist known for his work on the importance of hot towers in tropical meteorology, was born in Munich, Germany.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/March 30/2

March 31

• 2007: Major flooding reached its peak in Argentina's coastal region. Five people were killed in the week-long flood.
• 2014: Cyclone Hellen made landfall near Mitsinjo, Madagascar, killing 8 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/March 31/2

April 1

• 1960: TIROS-1, considered to be the first successful weather satellite, was launched.
• 1997: A major nor'easter dumped an unprecedented amount of late-season snow on parts of the Eastern United States, including more than 2 feet (60 cm) in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 1945: The Regional Meteorological Centre in Chennai, India, was formed.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/April 1/3

April 2

• 1936: A cluster of tornadoes killed at least 44 people in the Southeastern United States, beginning one of the deadliest tornado weeks in history.
• 1956: A two-day tornado outbreak began affecting the Central United States, spawning at least 47 tornadoes across 13 states that killed at least 38 people.
• 2006: A tornado outbreak killed 28 people in the Central United States.
• 1957: The first day of a 4-day tornado outbreak struck Texas and Oklahoma, including a tornado that caused severe damage and killed 10 people in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
• 2000: Cyclone Hudah made landfall near Antalaha, Madagascar, killing 111 people.

April 3

• 1974: The Super Outbreak, one of the most severe tornado outbreaks in world history, spawned 148 tornadoes, including 30 violent tornadoes, in the east-central United States and Windsor, Ontario, Canada. More than 300 people were killed, and $3.5 billion (2005 USD) in damage was reported.
• 2012: A tornado outbreak struck the region around the cities of Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas, causing more than US$1 billion in damage.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/April 3/2

April 4

• 1929: Severe floods began in parts of Tasmania, eventually killing 22 people.
• 1977: An F5 tornado killed 22 people near Birmingham, Alabama.
• 2003: Cyclone Inigo reached its peak intensity of 900 millibars (26.58 inHg) north of Onslow, Western Australia, tying it for the most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Australian tropical cyclone region.
• 1981: A violent tornado formed from an unusually weak storm in West Bend, Wisconsin. No tornado warning was issued due to the seemingly weak nature of the storm, and three people were killed.
• 1978: Cyclone Alby, the most damaging tropical cyclone to impact Western Australia on record, brought widespread damage to homes and crops and wind gusts as high as 150 kilometres per hour (93 mph) in Albany.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/April 4/5

April 5

• 1815: Mount Tambora began the largest volcanic eruption in modern history, eventually causing the Year Without a Summer.
• 1925: The worst tornado ever to strike the Miami, Florida area killed 5 people.
• 1972: An unusual tornado tracked from Oregon to Washington, killing 6 people.
• 2004: Tropical Depression 10F formed near Fiji, where it would kill 11 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/April 5/4

April 6

• 1936: A violent tornado struck the town of Gainesville, Georgia, killing more than 200 people. This was the day after another tornado in Tupelo, Mississippi also killed more than 200 people.
• 2020: Cyclone Harold, one of the strongest tropical cyclones in history to strike Vanuatu, made landfall on Espiritu Santo with 10-minute maximum sustained winds of 115 knots (215 km/h; 130 mph).
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/April 6/2

April 7

• 1922: The first mid-air collision of airliners in history occurred over Picardie, France, due to thick fog.
• 2012: An avalanche struck a military base near Siachen Glacier in northern Pakistan, killing 140 people.
• 1999: Cyclone Gwenda reached peak intensity near Western Australia, with a central pressure of 900 millibars (26.58 inHg), making it tied for the strongest cyclone ever observed in that region.
• 2001: Cyclone Sose passed just west of Vanuatu, killing 9 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/April 7/4

April 8

• 1998: An F5 tornado, the second in the area's history, killed 32 people near Birmingham, Alabama.
• 1984: Cyclone Kamisy, the worst tropical cyclone to affect northern Madagascar since 1911, reached peak intensity as it approached the island, with wind gusts as high as 250 kilometres per hour (160 mph).
• 1970: The Nimbus 4 weather satellite was launched.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/April 8/3

April 9

• 1947: A tornado or series of tornadoes plowed through several towns in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, killing 181 people.
• 1991:A powerful derecho killed two people and injured 145 people, mostly in West Virginia.
• 2003: INSAT-3A, a weather and communications satellite built by the Indian Space Research Organisation, was launched into geostationary orbit.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/April 9/3

April 10

• 1979: An extensive tornado outbreak devastated the area around Wichita Falls, Texas, killing 56 people.
• 1991: The Angola Cyclone, the first tropical cyclone ever observed over the southern Atlantic Ocean, formed just off the coast of Angola.
• 1996: A wind gust of 408 kilometres per hour (254 mph) was measured by a weather station on Barrow Island, Western Australia, as Cyclone Olivia made landfall. As of 2020 this remains the highest wind gust ever reliably measured.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/April 10/3

April 11

• 1854: John Park Finley, a pioneer in reporting and documenting tornadoes in the United States, was born.
• 1965: The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak, one of the worst in history, produced 78 tornadoes and killed almost 300 people in the American Midwest.
• 2021: Days after bringing deadly flooding to East Timor and southeastern Indonesia, Cyclone Seroja made landfall near Kalbarri, Western Australia.

April 12

• 1934: A wind gust of 231 miles per hour (372 km/h) was measured at the Mount Washington Observatory atop Mount Washington, New Hampshire. At the time, this was the fastest wind speed ever recorded, and it remains the fastest surface wind speed ever measured outside of a tropical cyclone.
• 2014: A major wildfire started in the area around Valparaíso, Chile, eventually destroying 2,500 homes and killing 15 people.
• 2020: A major tornado outbreak struck the Southeastern United States on the Easter holiday, killing 32 people over two days.

April 13

• 2010: A violent storm, known as a Nor'wester, killed more than 100 people in Bangladesh and eastern India.
• 2014: After skirting the coast of Queensland for two days, Cyclone Ita began moving southeastward over the Coral Sea near Mackay. Ita caused A$1.1 billion in damage in Australia.
• 1994: The GOES 8 weather satellite was launched. Part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program, GOES 8 would provide weather forecasting data to the United States until its retirement in 2004.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/April 13/3

April 14

• 1886: A tornado in Sauk Rapids killed 72 people, making it Minnesota's deadliest on record.
• 1999: A severe hailstorm, the costliest disaster in Australian history, dropped hail stones 9 cm (3.5 in) in diameter across the Sydney area. The storm caused more than A$ 2 billion in damage and injured 50 people.
• 2007: The April 2007 Nor'easter gave New York City its second highest 24–hour rainfall total in history.
• 2017: Flash floods due to heavy rain killed more than 40 people in northwestern Iran, mostly in the East Azerbaijan Province.
• 2018: Very heavy rains began falling on Kauai, Hawaii, continuing into the next day. A weather station near Hanalei measured 49.69 inches (126.2 cm) of rain in a 24-hour period, which is the most ever recorded anywhere the United States.
• 1969: The Nimbus 3 weather satellite was launched.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/April 14/6

April 15

• 1927: In New Orleans, 15 inches (380 mm) of rain fell in 18 hours, worsening an already historic flood and leading to the fateful (and ultimately unnecessary) decision to intentionally breach a levee south of the city.
• 1956: An F4 tornado killed 25 people in the Birmingham, Alabama area.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/April 15/2

April 16

• 1998: A deadly tornado outbreak struck Tennessee and Kentucky, including a rare F5 tornado that killed 3 people, and another tornado that struck downtown Nashville, Tennessee, killing one person.
• 2011: The final day of a three-day tornado outbreak brought dozens of tornadoes to the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States, killing 26 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/April 16/2

April 17

• 1979: Flooding along the Pearl River in Jackson, Mississippi crested at 43.28 feet (13.19 m), exceeding the previous record by more than 5 feet (1.5 m).
• 1970: A multi-day tornado outbreak began in the southern High Plains of the United States, including 3 F4 tornadoes in the Texas Panhandle that killed 6 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/April 17/2

April 18

• 2014: An avalanche killed 16 Sherpa guides working on Mount Everest.
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April 19

• 2000: Cyclone Rosita, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever to strike the Kimberley region of Western Australia, reached Category 5 intensity (Australian scale), making landfall just after midnight near Broome.
• 2008: Typhoon Neoguri made landfall in Guangdong province of southern China, the earliest tropical cyclone to strike the nation in recorded history.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/April 19/2

April 20

• 1996: Two tornadoes caused major damage in Southern Ontario.
• 2004: A strong tornado, part of a surprise outbreak of 29 tornadoes, killed 9 people in Utica, Illinois.
• 2012: Bhoja Air Flight 213 crashed while attempting to land in a thunderstorm, killing all 127 people aboard.
• 1967: The ESSA-5 weather satellite was launched.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/April 20/4

April 21

• 1965: A devastating tornado outbreak killed 58 people near Chicago.
• 1997: The 1997 Red River Flood peaked in Grand Forks, North Dakota, when the Red River crested at 54.35 feet (16.6 m). Dikes were only built to 49 feet or lower, so catastrophic flooding resulted.
• 2003: Tropical Storm Ana transformed from a subtropical cyclone to a tropical cyclone, becoming the only such storm ever recorded in the northern Atlantic Ocean in April.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/April 21/3

April 22

• 1992: A subtropical cyclone, the first ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean in the month of April, reached peak intensity far south of Bermuda.
• 2011: A nighttime tornado, caused major damage in parts of St. Louis, Missouri, including Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, but amazingly caused no deaths and few injuries.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/April 22/2

April 23

• 1792: John Thomas Romney Robinson, inventor of the cup-anemometer, was born in Dublin, Ireland.
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April 24

• 1908: One of the deadliest tornadoes in US history killed at least 143 people in Louisiana and Mississippi.
• 2007: Two tornadoes struck the towns of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico and Eagle Pass, Texas, United States, killing 10 people.
• 2010: A deadly tornado tracked 149 miles (240 km) across Louisiana and Mississippi, killing 10 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/April 24/3

April 25

• 1994: An F4 tornado killed three people on the first day of a 3-day tornado outbreak.
• 2003: Typhoon Kujira made landfall on Kyushu as a weak tropical depression. Kujira was the earliest tropical cyclone on record to strike Japan.
• 2014: An outbreak of 11 tornadoes struck North Carolina, damaging more than 300 homes and killing one person.
• 1997: The GOES 10 weather satellite was launched. Part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program, GOES 10 would provide weather forecasting data for North and South America until its retirement in 2009.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/April 25/4

April 26

• 1989: The deadliest tornado in world history destroyed areas of the Manikganj District, Bangladesh. More than 1300 people were killed, and over 80,000 people were left homeless.
• 1998: Cyclone Alan which had been impacting French Polynesia with several days of strong winds and heavy rain that killed 10 people, dissipated west of Tahiti.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/April 26/2

April 27

• 2011: The deadliest American tornado outbreak in 76 years killed more than 300 people in the Southern United States.
• 1980: Thai Airways Flight 231 stalled and crashed due to a downburst while flying through a thunderstorm on approach to Don Mueang International Airport, Bangkok, Thailand, killing 44 of 49 people on board.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/April 27/2

April 28

• 2003: Santa Fe, Argentina, was struck by the worst flooding in the city's 400-year history.
• 2002: As part of a larger tornado outbreak, a violent tornado struck the town of La Plata, Maryland, killing 4 and injuring more than 100 people. Initially rated F5 on the Fujita scale, which would have been the strongest tornado on record in the Eastern United States, the tornado's rating was later revised downward to F4.
• 2014: The second day of a multi-day tornado outbreak struck the Southeastern United States, bringing 50 tornadoes to 6 states that killed a total of 16 people.
• 1983: The GOES 6 weather satellite was launched. Part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program, GOES 6 would provide weather forecasting data to the United States until its main imaging instrument failed in 1989.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/April 28/4

April 29

• 1991: The second-deadliest tropical cyclone in world history struck the Chittagong area of Bangladesh, killing at least 138,000 people.
• 1924: A tornado outbreak began which would kill at least 110 over the course of two days.
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April 30

• 1054: The first known European tornado affected Rosdalla, near Kilbeggan, Ireland.
• 1924: Dozens of deadly tornadoes killed 111 people across the Southeastern United States, including one F4 tornado which killed 53 people in South Carolina over a 105-mile (169 km) path.
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May 1

• 2010: Record flooding began in Tennessee, eventually killing 16 people.
• 2012: The National Centers for Environmental Prediction in the United States replaced the Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) weather prediction model with the Rapid Refresh (RAP) model.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 1/2

May 2

• 1982: The Weather Channel went on the air in the United States.
• 2008: Cyclone Nargis made landfall in Myanmar, killing more than 146,000 people.
• 1929: Part of a larger tornado outbreak, a tornado destroyed a school in Rye Cove, Virginia, killing 12 students and a teacher.
• 2009: An avalanche killed six hikers in Sölden, Austria.
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May 3

• 1999: The second costliest tornado outbreak in history hit the area around Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, including an F5 tornado that destroyed thousands of homes and killed 36 people.
• 2016: A major wildfire, sustained by high winds and record-high temperatures, swept through the city of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, forcing an evacuation of all 88,000 of the city's residents and destroying 2,400 buildings.
• 1986: The GOES-G weather satellite, intended to replace the GOES 5 whose main imaging instrument had failed, was destroyed when the Delta 3914 rocket intended to deliver it failed to reach orbit due to an electrical fault.
• 2000: The GOES 11 weather satellite was launched. Part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program, GOES 11 was used as a backup satellite until it replaced the GOES 10 in 2006, and would provide weather forecasting data mainly for the Western United States and Pacific Ocean from 2006 until its retirement in 2011.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 3/4

May 4

• 1971: Saint-Jean-Vianney, Quebec was partially destroyed in a devastating landslide after weeks of heavy rain. The unscathed parts of the town were subsequently abandoned due to the threat of future landslides.
• 2007: A three-day tornado outbreak featuring more than 100 tornadoes began across a large area of the Central United States. One tornado destroyed 95% of the town of Greensburg, Kansas, and was the first tornado ever rated EF5.
• 2002: The Aqua weather satellite was launched into orbit.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 4/3

May 5

• 1950: Known locally as "Black Friday", heavy precipitation caused the already swollen Red River to breach several dikes, causing disastrous flooding in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
• 1995: A major hailstorm caused around $1 billion in damage in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. This was the costliest hailstorm in United States history.
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May 6

• 1965: A series of violent tornadoes affected the Twin Cities area of Minnesota.
• 1975: An F4 tornado struck Omaha, Nebraska, causing more than $1 billion (1975 USD) in damage.
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May 7

• 1840: The Great Natchez Tornado struck Natchez, Mississippi, killing at least 317 people.
• 1981: Tropical Storm Arlene moved across Cuba. Minimal damage was reported.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 7/2

May 8

• 1995: More than 20 inches (510 mm) of rain in just 12 hours caused major flooding in southern Louisiana, causing more than $1 billion in damage.
• 2009: A severe derecho blew across a large part of the United States, spawning 39 tornadoes and killing six people.
• 2003: Cyclone Manou reached peak intensity just 19 kilometres (12 mi) off the coast of Madagascar. Though it did not make landfall, the storm killed 89 people across the country.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 8/3

May 9

• 2007: Subtropical Storm Andrea formed off the coast of Florida, causing high winds which contributed to major brush fires.
• 1990: A severe tropical cyclone made landfall in the Andhra Pradesh state of India, killing nearly 1,000 people.
• 1785: James Pollard Espy a prominent early meteorologist who pioneered theories of atmospheric convection, was born in Pennsylvania.
• 2002: Cyclone Kesiny made landfall near Antsiranana, Madagascar, killing 33 people. Kesiny was the first tropical cyclone on record in the South-West Indian Ocean to make landfall in the month of May.
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May 10

• 1933: A tornado killed almost every resident of the small town of Beatty Swamps, Tennessee. Because of the destruction, the town was abandoned permanently.
• 1997: Maeslantkering, the largest movable storm surge barrier in the world, opened in the Nieuwe Waterweg, Netherlands.
• 2002: A tropical cyclone struck the coast of Oman, causing severe damage and several deaths due to drowning in flash floods.
• 1996: The film Twister was released.
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May 11

• 1953: An F5 tornado destroyed areas of downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114 people.
• 1970: Seventeen years to the day after the deadliest tornado in Texas history, another tornado struck downtown Lubbock, Texas, killing 26 people. It was the only F5 tornado in history to strike a skyscraper, which had its steel infrastructure twisted by the storm.
• 1996: A severe blizzard killed eight people near the summit of Mount Everest.
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May 12

• 1970: Severe floods began in Romania, eventually killing more than 200 and leaving more than 250,000 homeless.
• 1997: An F1 tornado affected downtown Miami, Florida, causing minor damage but providing for spectacular photos and news footage.
• 1948: A Douglas DC-4 crashed while flying into a thunderstorm near Libenge, Congo, killing 31 of the 32 aboard.
• 1959: Capital Airlines Flight 75 lost control and broke up over rural Maryland after encountering severe turbulence near thunderstorms, killing all 31 people on board.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 12/4

May 13

• 1980: A strong tornado devastated downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan.
• 1998: The NOAA-15 weather satellite was launched into a polar orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Originally planned for just a 5 year mission, as of early 2020 the satellite was still returning useful atmospheric and space data from several instruments.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 13/2

May 14

• 2007: Cyclone Akash made landfall in Bangladesh, causing almost $1 billion in damage.
• 1991: The NOAA-12 weather satellite was launched into a polar orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 14/2

May 15

• 1887: A tropical storm formed southeast of Bermuda. This storm would be the first of four off-season tropical cyclones which would form in the Atlantic Ocean that year, the most in recorded history.
• 1998: A rapidly moving squall line raced across Minnesota and caused over $1 billion dollars of wind–driven hail damage.
• 1896: The first tornado of a deadly sequence of tornado outbreaks killed 73 people in North-Central Texas.
• 2011: A major wildfire near Slave Lake, Alberta was pushed past fire breaks by winds gusting up to 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph), eventually destroying more than 400 buildings in the town.
• 2014: Several locations in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina set daily records for rainfall, including 107.9 millimetres (4.25 in) of rain in Belgrade, which contributed to major flooding that killed 86 people.
• 1966: The Nimbus 2 weather satellite was launched. It collected information about atmospheric temperature and cloud cover until early 1969.
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May 16

• 1986: Severe flooding from an ice jam completely destroyed the town of Winisk, Ontario, which was subsequently abandoned. Two people were killed.
• 2004: Typhoon Nida reached category 5 intensity just east of the Philippines.
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May 17

• 1896: A tornado outbreak killed dozens in Kansas and Nebraska.
• 2001: A Yakovlev Yak-40 aircraft crashed while flying through a thunderstorm near Sari, Iran, killing 30 people, including several members of the Islamic Consultative Assembly and other government officials.
• 2003: Ratnapura, Sri Lanka, recorded 366.1 millimetres (14.41 in) of rain in just 18 hours from a tropical cyclone that caused some of the worst flooding on the island in its history.
• 2021: Cyclone Tauktae made landfall near Mumbai, killing at least 174 people.

May 18

• 1902: A tornado killed 114 in Goliad, Texas.
• 1986: Cyclone Namu, the worst tropical cyclone ever to affect the Solomon Islands, killed 150 people as it passed through the island nation.
• 1988: Cyclone Herbie, an unusually late tropical cyclone for the Southern Hemisphere, formed in the southern Indian Ocean.
• 1927: Weeks of heavy rain and snowmelt caused a natural dam that had formed from a landslide 2 years earlier to give way, causing a flood that wiped out the town of Kelly, Wyoming and killed 6 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 18/4

May 19

• 1780: An unusual darkness, lasting from noon until after sunset, fell over parts of New England.
• 2018: Cyclone Sagar struck northwestern Somalia, killing 56 people in three countries. It was the strongest tropical cyclone on record to strike Somalia.
• 1997: A tropical cyclone made landfall near Chittagong, Bangladesh, killing more than 1,000 people.
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May 20

• 1916: A tornado struck the town of Codell, Kansas. Incredibly, the same town would be hit by two more tornadoes on May 20, 1917 and May 20, 1918.
• 2013: An EF5 tornado struck the heart of Moore, Oklahoma, killing 24 people, including seven children at an elementary school.
• 1970: Hurricane Alma reached peak intensity in the Caribbean Sea.
• 2010: Cyclone Laila made landfall in Andhra Pradesh, India, killing 65 people.
• 1999: A severe tropical cyclone made landfall near Karachi, Pakistan, killing 6,400 people.
• 2005: The NOAA-18 weather satellite was launched into a polar orbit.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 20/6

May 21

• 1953: A deadly tornado killed 2 people in Port Huron, Michigan, and crossed the St. Clair River into Canada where it killed 4 more people in Sarnia, Ontario.
• 1976: Typhoon Pamela passed over the island of Guam, damaging or destroying 80% of the island's buildings but only killing one person.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 21/2

May 22

• 1951: Hurricane Able, the strongest off-season Atlantic hurricane ever recorded, reached its peak strength of 115 miles per hour (185 km/h) off the coast of Cape Hatteras.
• 2011: A violent tornado killed 158 people and destroyed much of the city of Joplin, Missouri. This was the most people killed by a single tornado in the United States since the beginning of official tornado forecasts in 1950.
• 2004: An F4 tornado, one of the widest on record peaking at 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide, destroyed the village of Hallam, Nebraska.
• 1981: The GOES 5 weather satellite was launched. Part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program, GOES 5 would provide weather forecasting data to the United States until its main imaging instrument failed in 1984.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 22/4

May 23

• 1917: Edward Lorenz, meteorologist and original founder of the field of chaos theory, was born in West Hartford, Connecticut.
• 1982: Tropical Storm Aletta reached peak intensity off the western coast of Central America. Aletta brought more than 50 inches (1,300 mm) of rain to parts of Honduras and Nicaragua, causing flooding that killed more than 300 people.
• 1995: The GOES 9 weather satellite was launched. GOES 9 would provide weather forecasting data to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration until 1998, and was leased to the Japan Meteorological Agency from 2001–2003.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 23/3

May 24

• 1686: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, inventor of the Fahrenheit temperature scale used primarily in the United States, was born in present-day Poland.
• 2001: A tropical cyclone reached peak intensity in the northern Indian Ocean with a central pressure of 932 millibars (27.52 inHg). At the time it was the strongest tropical cyclone on record in that region, and would eventually kill hundreds upon landfall in the Saurashtra region of India.
• 1988: TACA Flight 110 lost power to both its engines due to water ingestion after flying through a heavy thunderstorm. Unable to reach an airport, its pilots made a successful deadstick landing on a grass levee near NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility.
• 2006: The GOES 13 weather satellite was launched. Part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program, GOES 13 would provide public weather forecasting data to the United States until its retirement in 2018, when it was transferred to the United States Air Force.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 24/4

May 25

• 1955: Several significant tornadoes, including two F5's, killed more than 100 people in the Central United States
• 2004: A week of flooding and landslides on Hispaniola came to an end, leaving around 2,000 people dead.
• 2009: Cyclone Aila struck Bangladesh, killing more than 300 people.
• 2018: Cyclone Mekunu made landfall near Salalah, Oman, killing 31 people. It was the strongest tropical cyclone to strike the Arabian Peninsula on record.
• 1989: Tropical Storm Cecil made landfall near Hội An, Vietnam, causing severe flooding that killed more than 700 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 25/5

May 26

• 1917: At one point thought to be the longest single tornado track on record, a family of several tornadoes killed over 100 people in Illinois and Indiana.
• 1972: Subtropical Storm Alpha reached peak intensity east of Savannah, Georgia, where it would make landfall the next day.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 26/2

May 27

• 1774: Francis Beaufort, inventor of the Beaufort scale for measuring wind force, was born in Ireland.
• 1896: A violent tornado tore through downtown Saint Louis, Missouri, killing at least 255 people.
• 1997: The Jarrell tornado completely wiped out the Double Creek Estates, killing 27 of 131 residents.
• 2018: For the second time in two years record flooding struck Ellicott City, Maryland.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 27/4

May 28

• 1879: Milutin Milanković, famous for relating the cycle of ice ages to characteristics of Earth's orbit, was born in Erdut, Croatia (then Austria-Hungary).
• 1941: After searching for several hours, the German weather ship Sachsenwald recovered two survivors from the sinking of the battleship Bismarck
• 2012: Tropical Storm Beryl made landfall near Jacksonville Beach, Florida, with maximum sustained winds of 55 knots (65 mph; 100 km/h). Beryl was the strongest off-season Atlantic tropical cyclone on record to strike the United States.
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May 29

• 2008: Tropical Storm Alma formed just off the coast of Costa Rica at 86.5º W, the easternmost Pacific tropical cyclone on record. Alma was also the only known tropical cyclone to strike the Pacific coast of Nicaragua.
• 2010: Tropical Storm Agatha made landfall near the Guatemala–Mexico border, killing more than 200 people due to flooding, landslides, and a sinkhole.
• 1995: A destructive tornado struck western Massachusetts, killing three people in the town of Great Barrington.
• 2013: Hurricane Barbara made landfall in Tonalá, Chiapas, Mexico, killing 4 people. This was the easternmost landfall for a Pacific hurricane on record, as well as the second-earliest in the year.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 29/4

May 30

• 1998: After a supercell spawned an F4 tornado that nearly wiped out the town of Spencer, South Dakota, the storms organized into a destructive derecho that tracked over 1,000 miles (1,609 km) across the southern Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada.
• 1959: Tropical Storm Arlene made landfall near Lafayette, Louisiana, bringing more than 10 inches (25 cm) of rain to parts of the northern Gulf Coast of the United States.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 30/2

May 31

• 1889: The Johnstown Flood, caused by days of heavy rains which led to the failure of the South Fork Dam, killed more than 2,000 people in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
• 1985: More than 40 tornadoes were spawned around the eastern Great Lakes in the 1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak, including the only F5 ever recorded in that area.
• 2013: The widest tornado ever recorded struck the area near El Reno, Oklahoma, killing 8 people, including renowned tornado researcher Tim Samaras.
• 1953: Tropical Storm Alice moved over the western tip of Cuba.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 31/4

June 1

• 1999: American Airlines Flight 1420 overran the runway in a severe thunderstorm, killing 10 passengers and the pilot.
• 2011: An EF3 tornado killed 3 people in south-central Massachusetts.
• 1988: Tropical Depression One brought over 40 inches (100 cm) of rain to parts of Cuba, killing 37 people due to flooding.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 1/3

June 2

• 1982: Hurricane Alberto formed just north of the Yucatán Peninsula, eventually causing devastating flooding in Cuba which killed 23 people.
• 1990: Thirty-seven tornadoes struck the US state of Indiana, the most ever recorded in that state in a single day.
• 1998: An outbreak of 47 tornadoes struck the Eastern United States. Two people were killed in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 2/3

June 3

• 2007: Cyclone Gonu became the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Arabian Sea, with maximum sustained winds of 270 kilometres per hour (170 mph), eventually causing more than $4 billion (2007 USD) in damage in Oman and Iran.
• 2010: Cyclone Phet made landfall near Al Ashkharah, Oman, causing major flooding in the desert nation.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 3/2

June 4

• 1958: A tornado outbreak killed 28 people in Wisconsin, including 21 deaths from a single F5 tornado.
• 2014: Tropical Storm Boris dissipated over the Gulf of Tehuantepec, but not before causing significant damage, flooding, and landslides that killed 6 people in Guatemala and southern Mexico.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 4/2

June 5

• 1934: A tropical storm struck the coast of Belize (then known as British Honduras). The storm would meander through Central America for several days, causing flooding which killed as many as 3,000 people.
• 1972: The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment began in Stockholm, Sweden.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 5/2

June 6

• 1973: Hurricane Ava became the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record in the Pacific Ocean.
• 1989: Typhoon Dot made landfall on the island of Samar, Philippines, causing widespread flooding and power outages.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 6/2

June 7

• 1993: Levees began to be overtopped, marking the start of the Great Flood of 1993, one of the worst floods in US history.
• 1997: Cyclone Keli formed in the South Pacific Ocean, the first tropical cyclone ever recorded in the month of June in that region.
• 1997: Tropical Storm Andres made landfall in El Salvador as a tropical depression. It was the first known tropical cyclone to directly strike the country.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 7/3

June 8

• 1924: Samuel B. Avis, a former member of United States House of Representatives, was struck and killed by lightning in Charleston, West Virginia.
• 1966: A tornado, one of the costliest in history, tracked across Topeka, Kansas, destroying a large portion of the city and killing 18 people.
• 1953: On the second day of a deadly three-day tornado outbreak, an F5 tornado killed 116 people in Flint, Michigan.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 8/3

June 9

• 1953: On the final day of a deadly three-day tornado outbreak, a violent tornado plowed through the city of Worcester, Massachusetts and surrounding towns, killing 90 people.
• 1972: Intense rainfall led to the failure of Canyon Lake Dam along Rapid Creek near Rapid City, South Dakota. The resulting flooding killed 238 people and caused over $160 million in damage.
• 1998: A severe tropical cyclone made landfall in Gujarat, India, killing an estimated 10,000 people.
• 1984: A tornado outbreak struck the Ivanovo and Yaroslavl regions of Russia (then the Soviet Union), killing more than 400 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 9/4

June 10

• 1682: The first known tornado in the history of Connecticut caused severe tree damage in the southwestern part of the state.
• 2005: A severe flood struck the town of Shalan in the Heilongjiang province of China, killing more than 100 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 10/2

June 11

• 2005: Tropical Storm Arlene, the first tropical cyclone of the hyperactive 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, made landfall on the Florida Panhandle.
• 2007: A series of mudslides after days of heavy rain killed more than 100 people in and around the city of Chittagong, Bangladesh.
• 1979: A tropical depression formed over the Caribbean Sea south of Grand Cayman. The storm produced torrential rainfall over Jamaica, including up to 32 inches (810 mm) in Westmoreland Parish.

June 12

• 1899: The New Richmond tornado completely destroyed the village of New Richmond, Wisconsin.
• 2004: Tropical Storm Chanthu made landfall in central Vietnam, killing 39 people.
• 1975: The Nimbus 6 weather satellite was launched.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 12/3

June 13

• 1968: Hurricane Abby dissipated east of Virginia.
• 2006: The North American Mesoscale Model officially replaced the obsolete Eta model for mesoscale numerical weather prediction in the United States.
• 1977: A tropical cyclone made landfall on Masirah Island, Oman, killing more than 100 people in the country.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 13/3

June 14

• 2018: Hurricane Bud made landfall as a weak tropical storm in Baja California Sur, Mexico.
• 1903: A major flash flood destroyed a large portion of the town of Heppner, Oregon, killing 247 people. This remains the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the state of Oregon.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 14/2

June 15

• 1892: A violent tornado killed 12 people in Southern Minnesota.
• 1991: Typhoon Yunya struck the island of Luzon in the Philippines, the same day that Mount Pinatubo erupted catastrophically.
• 2010: Severe flooding struck the department of Var, France, killing 25 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 15/3

June 16

• 1974: Hurricane Dolores made landfall near Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, causing widespread flooding and landslides that killed 18 people.
• 1992: One of the largest tornado outbreaks on record began in the Central United States, producing 123 tornadoes in just two days, including one of F5 intensity.
• 1977: The GOES 2 weather satellite was launched. Part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program for providing data for weather forecasting by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, GOES 2 would be followed by the launch of GOES 3 satellite exactly one year later.
• 2014: A tornado outbreak began across the Midwestern United States, including simultaneous EF4 tornadoes near Pilger, Nebraska that were broadcast live on national television.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 16/4

June 17

• 1946: One of the deadliest tornadoes in Canadian history struck Windsor, Ontario, killing 17 people.
• 1971: Hurricane Bridget reached peak intensity just off the coast of Acapulco, Mexico, killing 17 people in the area.
• 2010: Forty-eight tornadoes touched down in Minnesota, the most ever recorded in a single day in that state.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 17/3

June 18

• 1982: A subtropical storm struck eastern Florida, causing flooding and tornadoes which killed three people.
• 2001: A tornado struck the small village of Siren, Wisconsin. Ironically, the community's only tornado siren was out of service, so many residents had no warning of the incoming storm. Three people were killed, and 16 injured.
• 1993: Météo-France, the national meteorological institution for France, was founded.

June 19

• 1919: A violent tornado killed 57 people in Fergus Falls, Minnesota.
• 1959: The Escuminac Hurricane sunk 22 fishing boats off New Brunswick, killing 35 people.
• 1999: The QuikSCAT satellite, which measured winds over the world's oceans for more than 10 years, was launched.
• 1835: A tornado struck the city of New Brunswick, New Jersey, destroying nearly 150 houses and killing 5 people. This was the deadliest tornado in the history of the state.
• 1962: The TIROS-5 weather satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The TIROS-7 satellite from the same program was launched exactly one year later.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 19/5

June 20

• 1957: An extremely damaging F5 tornado killed 11 people in Fargo, North Dakota.
• 2010: An F2 tornado struck the downtown area of Billings, Montana, causing major damage but only minor injuries.
• 2011: An outbreak of 37 tornadoes struck the Central United States, including five EF3 tornadoes in Kansas and Nebraska.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 20/3

June 21

• 1989: Hurricane Cosme made landfall near Acapulco. Major flooding occurred due to the storm's large size, and 30 people were killed.
• 2007: Cyclone Yemyin developed east of India, eventually crossing the Deccan Plateau to the Arabian Sea and making a second landfall in Pakistan. Almost 1000 people were killed in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
• 2004: Typhoon Dianmu made landfall on Honshu, Japan, killing 4 people. Another 2 were killed in South Korea.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 21/3

June 22

• 1919: A tornado killed 57 people in Fergus Falls, Minnesota.
• 1972: Hurricane Agnes made landfall as a strong tropical storm near New York City. It would cause devastating flooding inland, killing 113 people and causing more than $2 billion in damage (1972 USD).
• 2007: The first F5 tornado in Canadian history struck the town of Elie, Manitoba.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 22/3

June 23

• 1544: Artemius of Verkola, a saint in the Russian Orthodox Church, was killed by lightning.
• 1944: An unusual long-lived tornado tracked through mountainous West Virginia, killing 100 people.
• 2016: A rare violent tornado struck Jiangsu Province, China, killing 99 people.
• 1925: After weeks of heavy rain and snowmelt, the Gros Ventre landslide occurred on the north side of Sheep Mountain, Wyoming. The slide blocked the Gros Ventre River, forming Lower Slide Lake.
• 1981: The NOAA-7 weather satellite was launched into a polar orbit. NOAA-6 returned a wide variety of observations of the earth, atmosphere, oceans, and space for 5 years until a power failure in June 1986.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 23/5

June 24

• 1996: Hurricane Alma drifted just off the coast of the Mexican state of Michoacán, producing heavy rains and winds of up to 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) which would kill 20 people.
• 2010: Hurricane Celia, the strongest storm of the 2010 Pacific hurricane season, reached peak intensity over open waters, with maximum sustained winds of 160 miles per hour (260 km/h).
• 2002: The NOAA-17 weather satellite was launched into a polar orbit.
• 2021: A violent tornado struck the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic, killing 6 people and injuring more than 200.

June 25

• 1974: A subtropical storm moved across the Florida Peninsula, causing major flooding that killed 3 people.
• 1977: Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning for the seventh time and survived, a world record.
• 1953: Heavy rainfall that would last for more than 3 days began over northern Kyushu, Japan, causing deadly flooding that would kill more than 1,000 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 25/3

June 26

• 1930: A boat carrying dynamite was struck by lightning near Brockville, Ontario, causing an explosion which killed 30 people.
• 1959: The first WSR-57 weather radar went online in Miami, Florida.
• 2012: The Waldo Canyon Fire advanced into Colorado Springs, Colorado, destroying over 300 homes and killing two people. It was part of a series of wildfires in Colorado caused by record heat and dry thunderstorms that summer.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 26/3

June 27

• 1933: A hurricane passed near Trinidad and made landfall in northern Venezuela, killing 13 people in Trinidad and "a number" of people in Venezuela.
• 1957: Hurricane Audrey, one of the deadliest tropical cyclones to strike the United States in the 20th century, killed 419 people and caused more than US$150,000,000 (equivalent to about $1,630,000,000 in 2023) in damage in Louisiana and Texas.
• 2009: The GOES 14 geostationary weather satellite was launched.
• 1979: The NOAA-6 weather satellite was launched into a polar orbit. NOAA-6 returned a wide variety of observations of the earth, atmosphere, oceans, and space until its decommissioning in 1987.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 27/4

June 28

• 1924: A violent tornado killed 85 people in Lorain and Sandusky, Ohio, making it the deadliest tornado in the state's history.
• 2013: A lightning strike ignited the Yarnell Hill Fire near Yarnell, Arizona. Two days later, high temperatures, strong winds, and erratic fire behavior would result in the deaths of 19 firefighters.
• 2019: A severe heat wave across southern France culminated with a national-record high temperature of 46.0 °C (114.8 °F) measured at Vérargues, Hérault, nearly 2.0 °C (3.6 °F) higher than the previous record.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 28/3

June 29

• 1865: A tornado killed at least 17 people in Viroqua, Wisconsin.
• 1904: A rare Russian tornado killed at least one person as it destroyed 3000 homes in the suburbs of Moscow.
• 1998: The Corn Belt Derecho produced wind gusts as high as 123 mph (198 km/h) as well as dozens of tornadoes in its rampage across eight states in the Midwest and Ohio Valley, killing one person and injuring 174.
• 2012: A severe derecho killed 28 people and caused almost $3 billion in damage in the eastern United States.
• 2021: An extreme heat wave reached its peak in western areas of North America, with Lytton, British Columbia reaching 49.6 °C (121.3 °F) (breaking Canada's all-time record temperature for the third day in a row) and several locations exceeding the country's previous record high temperature of 45.0 °C (113.0 °F).

June 30

• 1792: The first known tornado in Canadian history caused severe damage to forests on the Niagara Peninsula.
• 1912: The Regina Cyclone killed 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan, making it the deadliest tornado in Canadian history.
• 2011: Tropical Storm Arlene moved ashore on Veracruz, Mexico, bringing flooding, landslides, and high winds that killed 18 people.
• 1981: Tropical Storm Kelly struck the Philippines, causing severe flooding that killed nearly 200 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 30/4

July 1

• 1992: The national meteorological service of New Zealand, known as the MetService, was established as a state-owned enterprise.
• 2005: Severe flooding shut down almost all transportation in the Indian state of Gujarat. More than 170 people were eventually killed by the flooding.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 1/2

July 2

• 1963: Mohawk Airlines Flight 121 crashed while taking off from Rochester-Monroe County Airport due to a heavy thunderstorm. Seven of the 43 people on board were killed.
• 1997: A tornado outbreak struck the area around Detroit, Michigan, including the third tornado in 51 years to hit Windsor, Ontario.
• 1965: TIROS-10, the final weather satellite of the original TIROS program, was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 2/3

July 3

• 1996: Tropical Storm Cristina made landfall near Puerto Ángel, the third tropical cyclone to strike southern Mexico in 10 days.
• 2014: Hurricane Arthur made landfall just before midnight near Beaufort, North Carolina, the first hurricane to strike the United States in almost two years.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 3/2

July 4

• 1977: A severe windstorm, known as a derecho, struck areas of Wisconsin and Michigan.
• 1999: A severe derecho produced 90 miles per hour (145 km/h) winds that downed 25 million trees in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of northeastern Minnesota.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 4/2

July 5

• 1805: Robert FitzRoy, captain of the HMS Beagle and a pioneering British meteorologist, was born in Suffolk, England.
• 1937: The temperature reached 45.0 °C (113.0 °F) at both Midale and Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan. This was the hottest temperature in the history of Saskatchewan, and until a 2021 heat wave was the hottest temperature ever recorded in Canada.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 5/2

July 6

• 2005: A tornado outbreak spawned by the outer rainbands of Hurricane Cindy began over the Southeastern United States, including an F2 tornado that caused extensive damage to the Atlanta Motor Speedway.
• 2013: Hurricane Erick reached peak intensity as it passed 100 miles (160 km) offshore of Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, Mexico. Though the storm did not make landfall, flooding rains lead to the deaths of at least two people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 6/2

July 7

• 1991: A major derecho raced from South Dakota to New York, killing one person and causing over $100 million in damage.
• 2012: A severe flood struck the region of Krasnodar Krai, Russia in the early morning hours, killing 171 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 7/2

July 8

• 1680: A probable tornado killed one person in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the first known tornado fatality in North America.
• 1980: Aeroflot Flight 4225 crashed shortly after takeoff from Almaty International Airport in Soviet Kazakhstan due to turbulence caused by thermals during a heat wave, killing all 166 people on board.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 8/2

July 9

• 1986: Typhoon Peggy made landfall in northern Luzon, Philippines, killing more than 300 people.
• 2007: A severe cold wave culminated in a rare snowfall for parts of Argentina.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 9/2

July 10

• 1989: A severe tornado outbreak, including two violent tornadoes, caused more than $200 million in damage in the Northeastern United States.
• 2005: Hurricane Dennis reached peak intensity with a central pressure of 930 millibars (27.46 inHg), making it the strongest Atlantic hurricane to form prior to August. This record was broken by Hurricane Emily only 6 days later.
• 2006: Typhoon Ewiniar made landfall on the southern end of the Korean Peninsula. The death toll in North Korea may have been as high as 10,000 people.
• 2009: A total of eleven bolts of lightning struck the launch pad of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, one of many delays which plagued shuttle mission STS-127.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 10/4

July 11

• 1892: The Tête Rousse Glacier on the Mont Blanc massif unleashed an outburst flood of meltwater, killing at least 200 people in the valley near Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, France.
• 1991: L'Express Airlines Flight 508 crashed in a severe thunderstorm in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 13 of 15 people onboard.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 11/2

July 12

• 1995: Four straight days of derechos began across portions of the northern United States and southern Canada.
• 1996: Hurricane Bertha, an unusual early-season Atlantic hurricane, made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina.
• 2006: An F2 tornado struck parts of New York and Connecticut, causing several million dollars in damage.
• 1961: The TIROS-3 weather satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
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July 13

• 1951: The Great Flood of 1951 reached its peak at 2 million acres (8096 km²) flooded in Kansas and Missouri.
• 2006: Tropical Storm Bilis made landfall on Taiwan. Bilis eventually caused 672 deaths and more than $4 billion in damage in the Philippines, Taiwan, and China, mostly due to flooding.
• 2011: The Big Drift, a yearly snow drift blocking Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park with up to 80 feet (24 m) of snow, was finally cleared. This was the latest the road had ever opened due to weather, after an unusually snowy spring.
• 2010: Typhoon Conson struck the northern Philippines, killing more than 100 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 13/4

July 14

• 1960: Hurricane Abby passed just north of the Honduras coast, causing only minor damage.
• 2000: The Pine Lake tornado, the deadliest in Canada since 1987, killed 12 people in central Alberta.
• 1977: The first of the Himawari series of weather satellites, operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency, was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
• 1987: Strong thunderstorms dropped more than 100 millimetres (3.9 in) of rain in less than three hours over the city of Montreal, causing flash flooding that killed two people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 14/4

July 15

• 1881: A tornado outbreak killed 24 people in Minnesota.
• 2001: The South African Weather Service was formed.
• 2003: Hurricane Claudette came ashore near Port O'Connor, Texas, destroying more than 200 homes along the Gulf Coast.
• 1987: Typhoon Thelma made landfall in southern South Korea. At least 123 people were killed, and major damage occurred to the country's fishing fleet: more than 3,000 ships were damaged or destroyed.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 15/4

July 16

• 1904: A destructive tornado struck Chappaqua, New York, killing two people.
• 1997: Hurricane Danny formed as Tropical Depression Four, eventually dropping 36.71 inches (932 mm) of rain on Dauphin Island, Alabama. This was the most rain ever recorded from a tropical cyclone in the state.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 16/2

July 17

• 2006: An active period of derechos began across the Midwestern United States and eastern Canada, killing several people over 5 days.
• 2013: Tropical Storm Cimaron formed near Calayan, Cagayan, Philippines. A lightning strike from the storm in Ilocos Sur killed two people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 17/2

July 18

• 1996: An F5 tornado struck the village of Oakfield, Wisconsin.
• 1986: Hurricane Estelle reached peak intensity over the open Pacific Ocean. Despite never directly impacting land, the storm would bring unusually rough surf to Hawaii that destroyed several homes and killed two people.
• 2014: Typhoon Rammasun, only the second category 5 tropical cyclone in history to made landfall on China, struck Hainan, killing 88 people across the country.

July 19

• 1977: The Laurel Run Dam in West Taylor Township, Pennsylvania was overtopped and subsequently failed due to heavy rains, killing 40 people. This was just part of the second great flood of Johnstown which killed 84 people in total.
• 1983: A derecho, which moved along a path parallel to Interstate 94 from Minnesota to Illinois, knocked out power to 250,000 people and injured at least 34.
• 1996: Unprecedented rainfall started the Saguenay flood, killing at least seven people and causing as much as $1.5 billion (CAD) in damage in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec.
• 2018: Winds from a nearby severe thunderstorm caused an amphibious tour boat to sink on Table Rock Lake near Branson, Missouri, killing 17 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 19/4

July 20

• 2007: Severe flooding in the United Kingdom peaked as a storm system dropped as much as 120 millimeters (4.7 in) of rain on southern England.
• 2008: Hurricane Bertha, the longest-lived July Atlantic hurricane on record, dissipated over Atlantic Canada.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 20/2

July 21

• 1961: Hurricane Anna reached peak intensity over the Caribbean Sea, with peak winds of 115 miles per hour (185 km/h).
• 1987: A rare high-altitude violent tornado downed around 1,000,000 trees in Yellowstone National Park and surrounding wilderness.
• 1909: A major hurricane made landfall at Velasco, Texas, killing 41 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 21/3

July 22

• 1342: St. Mary Magdalene's flood, the worst flooding in central European history, reached its peak, inundating most rivers and valleys across central Europe.
• 2006: Hurricane Daniel reached peak intensity over the open Pacific Ocean, with maximum sustained winds of 130 knots (150 mph; 240 km/h).
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 22/2

July 23

• 1961: Hurricane Anna made landfall in Honduras, causing minor damage.
• 2010: The largest hailstone ever measured (by diameter) fell near Vivian, South Dakota. The hailstone was measured at 8.0 inches (20 cm) across.
• 2014: TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashed near Penghu Airport on Magong Island, Taiwan, killing 44 of 54 on board. Bad weather due to the passage of Typhoon Matmo was partially blamed for the crash.
• 2012: Typhoon Vicente made landfall over Taishan, Guangdong, China. The storm killed 32 people, in addition to causing an environmental disaster when 7 shipping containers of polypropylene plastic pellets were washed into the sea near Hong Kong.
• 2001: The GOES 12 weather satellite was launched. Part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program, GOES 12 would provide weather forecasting data to the United States until its retirement in 2013.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 23/5

July 24

• 1959: Hurricane Debra made landfall near Galveston, Texas, bringing more than 15 inches (380 mm) of rain in Orange County that resulted in severe flooding.
• 1979: Tropical Storm Claudette made landfall near the Texas/Louisiana border, causing record rainfalls and $400 million dollars (1979 USD) in damage.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 24/2

July 25

• 2001: A red rain was observed in the Indian state of Kerala. The phenomenon would continue sporadically for several weeks throughout the state. Its cause was never definitively determined.
• 2010: A minor tornado struck The Bronx, New York. Seven people were injured by the storm.
• 1987: Hurricane Eugene struck Colima, Mexico, killing three people.
• 2019: A historic heat wave reached its peak across western Europe, with temperatures reaching all-time record highs in Germany (42.6 °C, 108.7 °F), Belgium (41.8 °C, 107.2 °F), Luxembourg (40.8 °C, 105.4 °F), and the United Kingdom (38.7 °C, 101.7 °F).
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 25/4

July 26

• 2005: Almost 1,000 millimeters (39 in) of rain in just 24 hours caused severe flooding in the Indian state of Maharashtra, killing more than 1000 people.
• 2013: INSAT-3D, a weather and communications satellite built by the Indian Space Research Organisation, was launched into geostationary orbit.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 26/2

July 27

• 1943: Colonel Joe Duckworth became the first man to fly into the eye of a tropical cyclone, taking his AT-6 Texan training plane into the 1943 Surprise Hurricane twice.
• 2010: Heavy rains that would last for four days began across much of Pakistan, causing historic flooding that would kill more than 1,700 people.
• 1989: Typhoon Judy struck southern Kyushu, Japan, killing 11 people in the country due to significant flooding and landslides.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 27/3

July 28

• 1987: A major landslide due to weeks of heavy rain in the Valtelline valley in northern Italy killed 22 people.
• 1996: Hurricane Cesar made landfall in Nicaragua and moved across Central America. Due to different conventions in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the storm was renamed "Douglas".
• 2005: A tornado, the costliest such storm in British history, struck Birmingham, United Kingdom.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 28/3

July 29

• 1904: The first section of the Galveston Seawall was completed.
• 1917: The temperature reached 114 °F (46 °C) in Beardsley, Minnesota, the highest recorded temperature in the state's history (later tied in 1936).
• 1976: NOAA-5, the final weather satellite of the "Improved TIROS" series of satellites, was launched.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 29/3

July 30

• 1978: Tropical Storm Amelia formed just off the coast of southern Texas. Upon moving inland the next day, Amelia caused severe flooding which killed 30 people.
• 1960: Tropical Storm Brenda tracked along the coast of the Eastern United States, bringing flooding rains to several states.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 30/2

July 31

• 1987: The Edmonton Tornado, the second-deadliest Canadian tornado of the 20th century, killed 27 people as it cut across Alberta.
  
• 1996: Typhoon Herb struck Taiwan as a Category 4 Typhoon, causing more than $5 billion in damage.
  
• 1913: The Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium was officially formed as an autonomous institution.
• 2022: A volcano warning is accidentally issued for a wildfire in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska.
  

August 1

• 1982: Typhoon Bess struck the Japanese island of Honshū, killing 59 people.
  
• 1913: Ragnar Fjørtoft, a meteorologist who did pioneering work in numerical weather prediction, was born in Oslo, Norway.
• 1899: A hurricane made landfall near Carrabelle, Florida, destroying most of the city and killing 7 people in the state.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 1/3

August 2

• 1922: A typhoon made landfall near Swatow, China late at night, killing 50,000 of the city's 65,000 residents.
  
• 1985: Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashed due to microburst-induced wind shear, killing 134 of the 163 on board, as well as one person on the ground.
  
• 2005: Air France Flight 358 overran the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport while attempting to land in a thunderstorm. The aircraft was destroyed in the crash and subsequent fire, but all aboard survived.
• 2012: Typhoon Damrey made landfall over Jiangsu in northern China, just a few hours before Typhoon Saola struck Fujian in southern part of the country. The two storms together killed more than 100 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 2/4

August 3

• 2006: Typhoon Prapiroon struck southern China near Shangyang, resulting in severe flooding which caused about $1 billion (USD) in damage.
  
• 2008: A rare F4 (T8) tornado struck the town of Hautmont, France, killing three people.
  
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 3/2

August 4

• 1980: Hurricane Allen reached category 5 strength for the first time in the late evening. Allen was at this strength for a total of almost three days, the longest of any Atlantic hurricane on record, and the third-longest in the world.
• 2016: Hurricane Earl moved onshore near Belize City, Belize. After landfall Earl moved westward into Mexico, where heavy rain caused landslides that killed at least 81 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 4/2

August 5

• 1988: Tropical Storm Alberto became a tropical cyclone at 41.5º N, further north than any other North Atlantic tropical cyclone.
  
• 1997: Hurricane Guillermo reached a peak intensity of 919 millibars (27.1 inHg) over the eastern Pacific Ocean, making it the second-strongest Pacific hurricane on record at the time (since surpassed by two other storms).
  
• 2011: Typhoon Muifa passed through Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, bringing up to 41 inches (1,000 mm) of rain and sustained winds of 65 knots (75 mph; 120 km/h) to Okinawa Island.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 5/3

August 6

• 1879: The easternmost major tornado ever recorded in North America struck Bouctouche, New Brunswick, killing 5 people.
• 1959: Hurricane Dot made landfall on the island of Kauaʻi, the first known hurricane in history to strike Hawaii.
  
• 1753: Georg Wilhelm Richmann an early researcher into electricity and related phenomena, was struck by lightning and killed while conducting experiments in Saint Petersburg.
  
• 2010: A flash flood killed 255 people in the Ladakh region of northern India.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 6/4

August 7

• 1993: Tropical Storm Bret made landfall in Venezuela, eventually killing 174 people in Venezuela and Colombia (with ten more deaths in Nicaragua), making it the deadliest South American tropical cyclone in recorded history.
  
• 1979: Several tornadoes killed 2 people in the Woodstock, Ontario area.
• 1944: The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, better known as the Hurricane Hunters, were first activated out of Presque Isle Army Air Field, Maine.
• 2014: Hurricane Iselle, the strongest tropical cyclone on record to strike the Big Island of Hawaii, made landfall along the Kau coast.

August 8

• 1899: The "San Ciriaco hurricane" began crossing the island of Puerto Rico, eventually killing more than 3,000 people. The storm had an accumulated cyclone energy of 73.57, the highest on record in the Atlantic basin.
• 1975: Flooding rains due to Typhoon Nina caused the Banqiao Dam in China's Henan Province to fail. The subsequent catastrophic flooding, famine, and diseases would kill as many as 200,000 people.
  
• 2010: Heavy rain and flooding led to catastrophic mudslides which killed more than 1,400 people in Zhugqu County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, China. This was part of a larger series of floods and mudslides which killed more than 3,000 people across southern and central China over the summer.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 8/3

August 9

• 1878: The deadliest tornado in Connecticut history, and one of the worst ever in the Northeastern United States, destroyed the town of Wallingford, killing 34 people.
  
• 1993: The NOAA-13 weather satellite was launched into a polar orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The satellite only operated for 12 days before a short circuit resulted in a loss of contact and the end of its mission.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 9/2

August 10

• 1856: A hurricane destroyed a resort on Last Island, Louisiana, killing more than 200 people.
  
• 2017: Hurricane Franklin made landfall in Veracruz, Mexico, causing relatively minor damage.
• 2020: A severe derecho struck the Midwestern United States, bringing wind gusts as high as 140 miles per hour (230 km/h) and causing $11 billion USD in damage.

August 11

• 1999: A rare tornado struck Salt Lake City, Utah, killing one person and injuring more than 100 people.
  
• 1979: A dam in the Rajkot district of Gujarat, India failed due to major flooding, resulting in the deaths of thousands.
  
• 1940: A hurricane made landfall near Beaufort, South Carolina, killing 50 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 11/3

August 12

• 1955: Hurricane Connie made landfall in North Carolina. Five days later, Hurricane Diane would strike the same area, causing catastrophic flooding throughout the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions of the United States.
  
• 1993: Hurricane Fernanda reached peak intensity over the northeastern Pacific Ocean, with maximum sustained winds of 145 miles per hour (233 km/h). It would bring high waves to the Hawaiian Islands, but only caused minimal damage.
• 2004: Typhoon Rananim moved ashore near Wenling in Zhejiang, China, killing 168 people in the country.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 12/3

August 13

• 2004: Hurricane Charley, after changing direction and rapidly intensifying in the Gulf of Mexico, surprised residents of Punta Gorda, Florida as a Category 4 hurricane.
  
• 1916: The dam holding back Lake Toxaway in Transylvania County, North Carolina failed due to severe flooding.
  
• 1953: Hurricane Barbara made landfall on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, with winds over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h).
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 13/3

August 14

• 1812: A tropical cyclone was sighted near Jamaica. This storm would eventually strike New Orleans as a major hurricane, killing around 100 people.
  
• 1974: Tropical Storm Alma made landfall in northern Venezuela, one of only 4 tropical cyclones in history to do so.
• 1932: A major hurricane, one of the strongest on record to strike Texas, made landfall near Freeport, killing 40 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 14/3

August 15

• 1787: The Four-State Tornado Swarm, the most extensive tornado outbreak in early American history, killed two people in New England.
  
• 2008: A tornado outbreak began in southern and central Poland, killing 4 people and damaging hundreds of buildings.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 15/2

August 16

• 2003: Hurricane Erika made landfall in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, causing minor damage and two deaths.
  
• 2004: Flash flooding struck two villages in England, causing major damage.
  
• 1950: Hurricane Hiki reached peak intensity as it passed north of Hawaii. At least 52 inches (1,300 mm) of rain was measured on Kauai; the number may have been higher, as the rain gauge overflowed.
• 1968: The ESSA-7 weather satellite was launched.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 16/4

August 17

• 1915: A major hurricane struck the Galveston, Texas area, killing more than 200 people. However, due to the newly-constructed seawall, only 11 died in Galveston itself.
  
• 1969: Hurricane Camille, the second strongest hurricane ever to strike the United States, made landfall at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Camille caused more than $1 billion (1969 USD) in damage and 250 deaths.
  
• 2012: Typhoon Kai-tak made landfall on the Leizhou Peninsula, Guangdong, China, causing major economic damage across the province.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 17/3

August 18

• 2007: Typhoon Sepat struck the island of Taiwan, killing at least 43 people.
  
• 2008: The Indian state of Bihar experienced an historic flood when the Kosi River changed its course, affecting more than 2 million people and killing hundreds.
• 1969: Silver iodide was dropped into parts of Hurricane Debbie as part of Project Stormfury, an attempt to weaken hurricanes using cloud seeding.
• 1997: Typhoon Winnie, a storm with an extremely large eye more than 200 miles (320 km) in diameter, made landfall in Zhejiang, China, killing more than 300 people.
• 2011: A lightning strike sparked the Pagami Creek Fire in northern Minnesota. It would eventually burn 92,000 acres (370 km²), making it the largest naturally occurring fire in the state in more than 100 years.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 18/5

August 19

• 1848: More than 100 ships were lost and 100 fishermen were killed in a severe gale on the east coast of Scotland.
  
• 1991: Hurricane Bob made landfall in eastern New England, causing more than $2 billion (2006 USD) in damage.
  
• 1838: Hugo Hildebrand Hildebrandsson, a Swedish meteorologist who compiled the first International Cloud Atlas, was born in Stockholm.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 19/3

August 20

• 1886: An intense hurricane completely destroyed the port of Indianola, Texas, leading to the town's relocation further inland.
  
• 1970: The 8th deadliest tornado in Canadian history struck Sudbury, Ontario.
• 2009: Eighteen tornadoes touched down in southern Ontario, marking the most extensive tornado outbreak in Canadian history.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 20/3

August 21

• 1883: A tornado struck Rochester, Minnesota, killing 37. The destruction led to the founding of the Mayo Clinic.
  
• 1918: 36 people were killed when a tornado struck Tyler, Minnesota.
  
• 2007: Hurricane Dean, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes to make landfall on record, struck the Yucatán Peninsula with maximum sustained winds of 175 miles per hour (280 km/h).
• 2011: A strong tornado caused major damage and killed one person in Goderich, Ontario.
• 1950: Hurricane Able struck Atlantic Canada with winds up to 99 miles per hour (159 km/h), killing 2 people.
• 1994: Typhoon Fred made landfall in Zhejiang, China, killing more than 1,000 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 21/6

August 22

• 1933: The Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane struck the Outer Banks late in the evening, killing as many as 30 people.
  
• 1997: Tropical Storm Zita made landfall on the Leizhou Peninsula of China, killing 7 people due to flooding and landslides.
• 2016: Typhoon Mindulle made landfall near Tateyama, Chiba, Japan, killing 3 people due to flooding.
• 1999: China Airlines Flight 642 crashed while attempting to land at Hong Kong International Airport during Typhoon Sam, killing 3 passengers.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 22/4

August 23

• 1853: The World Meteorological Organization, originally the International Meteorological Organization, was formed.
  
• 1998: An outbreak of severe weather caused major damage across northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, killing one person.
• 1873: The first known hurricane warning in history was raised for portions of the eastern United States, for a hurricane that would eventually strike Newfoundland. This warning was issued by Father Benito Vines, director of the Meteorological Observatory of the Royal College of Belén in Havana, Cuba.
• 1962: The first successful satellite of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, a series of weather satellites built and used by the United States Department of Defense, was launched. While classified at the time, later satellites in the program provided public data used for numerical weather prediction for several decades.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 23/4

August 24

• 1964: Hurricane Cleo stuck southwest Haiti, killing almost 200 people there.
  
• 1992: Hurricane Andrew, one of the most intense hurricanes on record to hit the United States, devastated the area around Homestead, Florida.
• 1956: Severe flooding began in Mannum, South Australia, after a levee broke outside of town.
  
• 1893: A hurricane struck New York City, causing major damage, including the complete destruction of Hog Island.
• 2006: A tornado outbreak struck the northern Great Plains, including an EF3 tornado that killed one person in Kasota, Minnesota.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 24/5

August 25

• 1635: A major hurricane struck southeastern New England, killing more than 46 people.
  
• 1986: The remnants of Hurricane Charley passed just south of Ireland, causing record rainfall and major flooding which killed four people.
  
• 1931: The Grand Canal broke through dikes near the city of Gaoyou, China, drowning more than 2,000 people. This was just one tragedy in a large series of floods that year which killed hundreds of thousands of people by drowning, disease, and starvation.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 25/3

August 26

• 1995: As part of a hyperactive hurricane season, 5 tropical cyclones existed in the Atlantic basin simultaneously, the only time in history this has ever occurred.
  
• 2017: Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Rockport, Texas before stalling for several days and producing up to 60 inches (150 cm) of rain in Southeast Texas. This was the most rainfall on record in the United States from a tropical cyclone.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 26/2

August 27

• 1893: The "Sea Islands Hurricane" made landfall near Savannah, Georgia, killing more than 1,000 people.
• 1989: Hurricane Kiko struck the southern tip of Baja California as a category 3 hurricane, but caused no deaths.
  
• 1909: A major hurricane struck the city of Monterrey, Mexico, bringing flooding that destroyed half the city and killed an estimated 4,000 people.
• 1947: The Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service was founded.

August 28

• 1983: Hurricane Barry made landfall about 35 miles (56 km) south of the Texas border, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. Hundreds of homes were destroyed, but no one was killed.
  
• 2012: Typhoon Bolaven struck the Korean Peninsula, killing 19 in South Korea and at least 59 in North Korea.
• 1964: Nimbus 1, the first weather satellite of the Nimbus program, was launched. It functioned for nearly a month, delivering information about cloud cover and temperature until a solar panel failure ended its mission.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 28/3

August 29

• 2005: Hurricane Katrina pushed an incredible storm surge onshore in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, killing almost 2,000 people and causing more than $80 billion in damage. It was the costliest Atlantic hurricane in history, as well as the deadliest in the United States since the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane.
  
• 2017: Severe flooding following heavy rainfall struck Mumbai, India, killing dozens of people due to electrocutions and a building collapse.
• 2021: Hurricane Ida, one of the strongest hurricanes on record to strike the state of Louisiana, made landfall near Port Fourchon with maximum sustained winds of 150 miles per hour (240 km/h).

August 30

• 1878: A record flood killed almost 400 people in and around Miskolc, Hungary.
  
• 2003: A flash flood along Jacobs Creek killed 6 people on Interstate 35 in Kansas, near the town of Emporia.
• 2008: Hurricane Gustav made landfall in Pinar del Río Province, Cuba. A weather station recorded a wind gust of 184 knots (212 mph; 341 km/h), which at the time was thought to be the strongest wind gust from a tropical cyclone on record.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 30/3

August 31

• 1971: Hurricane Lily struck western Mexico, causing devastating flooding in Puerto Vallarta.
• 1952: Hurricane Able moved ashore near Beaufort, South Carolina, causing flooding and heavy crop damage.
• 1940: A Douglas DC-3 crashed near Lovettsville, Virginia while flying through a thunderstorm. The cause of the crash was unclear, but suspected to be either due to wind shear or a lightning strike.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/August 31/3

September 1

• 1984: Typhoon Ike struck Siargao Island in the Philippines, killing more than 1,300 people and leaving more than 200,000 homeless.
• 1988: Under the name WeatherNow, The Weather Network began broadcasting in Montreal, Quebec.
• 1962: Typhoon Wanda struck Hong Kong, killing 434 people.
• 1958: Hurricane Ella made landfall on the Tiburon Peninsula of Haiti, killing 30 people in Les Cayes.
• 1981: Typhoon Agnes began impacting South Korea, dropping more than 700 millimetres (28 in) of rain in spots and killing 113 people in the country.

September 2

• 1935: The Labor Day Hurricane, the strongest hurricane ever to strike the United States, passed over the Florida Keys, killing as many as 600 people.
• 1937: A severe typhoon struck Hong Kong with wind gusts over 130 knots (150 mph; 240 km/h), killing 11,000 people.
• 1973: Hurricane Anita made landfall in northeastern Mexico as a Category 5 hurricane.
• 2010: Typhoon Kompasu made landfall near Seoul, South Korea, killing four people in the country.
• 2011: Tropical Storm Talas began dropping record rainfall across southern Japan, causing flooding that eventually killed more than 80 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/September 2/5

September 3

• 1821: A hurricane struck New York City, the only known major Atlantic hurricane in history to do so.
• 1930: Hurricane San Zenon made landfall near Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, killing more than 2,000 people on Hispaniola.
• 1976: A Venezuelan Air Force flight crashed while attempting to land on Terceira Island, Azores, during Hurricane Emmy, killing all 68 aboard.
• 1969: Hurricane Francelia made landfall near Punta Gorda, Belize (then British Honduras). Severe flooding and landslides over the next several days would killed 271 people in Guatemala and El Salvador.
• 1989: Cubana de Aviación Flight 9646 flew into a thunderstorm and crashed shortly after takeoff from José Martí International Airport near Havana, Cuba, killing 150 people (126 on board plus 24 people on the ground). The crash was caused by downburst-induced wind shear resulting in an abrupt loss of altitude.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/September 3/5

September 4

• 1933: The strongest hurricane to strike the United States during the hyperactive 1933 Atlantic hurricane season made landfall near Jupiter, Florida.
• 1993: Typhoon Yancy made its third landfall on Japan, on Hiroshima Prefecture. Yancy killed 48 people throughout the country.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/September 4/2

September 5

• 1966: Hurricane Faith struck the Faroe Islands as the northernmost tropical cyclone in history, with winds of over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h).
• 1996: Hurricane Fran made landfall in North Carolina, causing almost $5 billion (2006 USD) in damage.
• 2003: Hurricane Fabian made landfall on Bermuda as a Category 3 hurricane, the strongest to strike the island in 40 years.
• 2007: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its Fourth Assessment Report, giving grave predictions about future global warming.
• 1978: Hurricane Norman made landfall in southern California as a weak tropical depression, one of only a few tropical cyclones on record to do so. The storm's remnants would produce a rare late-summer snowfall in the Sierra Nevada mountains that killed 4 hikers.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/September 5/5

September 6

• 1959: Hurricane Patsy became the first Category 5 hurricane on record in the Pacific Ocean.
• 1986: Typhoon Wayne dissipated over Vietnam 22 days after it formed, making it the longest-lived tropical cyclone on record in the Western Pacific Ocean.
• 2017: Hurricane Irma made landfall in the Virgin Islands at peak intensity, with sustained winds of up to 180 miles per hour (290 km/h), killing several people and causing catastrophic damage.
• 2005: Typhoon Nabi made landfall near Isahaya, Nagasaki, Japan, killing 29 people across the country.
• 1988: The first weather satellite of the Chinese Fengyun program was launched.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/September 6/5

September 7

• 1950: Hurricane Dog reached its peak intensity with a central pressure of 948 millibars (27.99 inHg).
• 1953: Hurricane Carol made landfall near Saint John, New Brunswick, with reported wind gusts as high as 80 miles per hour (130 km/h).
• 1998: Two derechos struck the Northeastern United States, causing widespread damage and killing 7 people.
• 1804: A hurricane struck Georgia and South Carolina in the Southeastern United States, killing more than 500 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/September 7/4

September 8

• 1900: The Galveston Hurricane, the deadliest hurricane of the 20th century, made landfall at Galveston, Texas.
• 1988: After months of drought and days of high winds, Yellowstone National Park was closed to all non-emergency personnel due to the proximity of intense wildfires.
• 2016: INSAT-3DR, a weather satellite built by the Indian Space Research Organisation, was launched into geostationary orbit.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/September 8/3

September 9

• 1775: The Independence Hurricane killed around 4,000 people in Newfoundland.
• 1913: A German zeppelin flew into a storm over the North Sea. It crashed and sank, killing 14 people.
• 1965: Hurricane Betsy struck New Orleans, flooding parts of the city. Betsy was the first hurricane ever to cause more than $1 billion (1965 USD) in damage.
• 1980: MV Derbyshire, the largest ship ever to sink, was lost south of Japan during Typhoon Orchid, killing all 44 aboard.
• 1974: An avalanche killed all six members of an expedition attempting to summit Mount Everest.
• 1821: One of the first known tornado outbreaks struck New England, killing at least 8 people in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
• 1996: Typhoon Sally made landfall on the Leizhou Peninsula, killing at least 140 people in Hainan, Guangdong, and Guangxi, China.
• 1980: The GOES 4 weather satellite was launched. Part of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program, GOES 4 would provide weather forecasting data to the United States and later Europe for more than 8 years.
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September 10

• 1994: Hurricane John became extratropical, ending its 31-day existence as a tropical cyclone, the longest in history.
• 1931: A major hurricane killed as many as 2,500 people in Belize.
• 1994: Hurricane John became extratropical, ending its 31-day existence as a tropical cyclone, the longest in history.
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September 11

• 1995: Hurricane Luis produced a 30-meter (98 ft) rogue wave which struck the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2, the largest wave ever officially measured.
• 2013: A period of very heavy rains began over portions of Colorado, resulting in historic flooding that killed 8 people and destroyed over 1,500 homes.
• 1941: A hurricane, one of the worst on record to impact Cabo San Lucas, made landfall on southern Baja California, Mexico, causing major damage in the area and killing 15 people.
• 1976: Typhoon Fran affected southern Japan with very heavy rainfall, causing flooding and landslides that killed more than 100 people. The highest recorded rainfall total in a 24-hour period was 1,114 millimetres (43.9 in) in Kito, Tokushima, which stood as a national record for almost 30 years.
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September 12

• 1992: Hurricane Iniki devastated the island of Kauai, causing more than $2 billion (2006 USD) in damage.
• 1997: Hurricane Linda, one of the strongest hurricanes on record in the eastern Pacific Ocean, passed near Socorro Island with maximum sustained winds of 160 knots (185 mph; 295 km/h).
• 1982: Typhoon Judy made landfall on southern Honshu, Japan, killing 26 people and flooding more than 60,000 homes.
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September 13

• 1995: Hurricane Marilyn began a three-day track through the Leeward Islands, causing more than $1 billion in damage.
• 2008: Hurricane Ike made landfall near Galveston, Texas, causing more than $30 billion (USD) in damage. Ike was the third-costliest tropical cyclone in history at the time, and killed at least 214 people throughout the Caribbean.
• 1989: Hurricane Octave reached peak intensity over the northeastern Pacific Ocean, with maximum sustained winds of 130 miles per hour (210 km/h).
• 1944: The Somers-class destroyer USS Warrington was sunk by a storm dubbed The Great Atlantic Hurricane off the coast of The Bahamas. Of the 321 officers and crew aboard, only 73 were rescued.
• 1948: A hurricane passed just west of Bermuda, causing major damage on the island and killing six people.
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September 14

• 1996: An unusual hybrid sub-tropical cyclone formed over Lake Superior.
• 2005: A devastating landslide caused by record amounts of rainfall killed three people near Bergen, Norway.
• 2007: Parts of Equatorial Africa began experiencing severe flooding that would kill at least 250 people.
• 1997: Typhoon Oliwa made landfall on Kyushu, near Makurazaki, Kagoshima, killing 7 people in Japan and another 10 offshore.
• 1876: The San Felipe hurricane hit Puerto Rico, killing at least 19 people on the island, though the number may have been higher than reported.
• 2014: Hurricane Odile, the most intense tropical cyclone to make landfall on the Baja California Peninsula in the satellite era, struck near Cabo San Lucas with maximum sustained winds of 110 knots (125 mph; 205 km/h).

September 15

• 1995: Hurricane Ismael struck the Mexican state of Sinaloa, killing 116 people.
• 1997: Typhoon Oliwa made landfall at Makurazaki, Kagoshima, Japan. Twelve people were killed by the storm.
• 2004: The outer rainbands of Hurricane Ivan began spawning tornadoes in the Southeastern United States. This tornado outbreak, the second-largest ever caused by a tropical cyclone, killed 7 people.
• 2016: Typhoon Meranti, one of the most intense tropical cyclones on record at its peak, made landfall at Xiamen, Fujian, China, killing 47 people in China and Taiwan.
• 1993: Hurricane Gert (at the time only a weak tropical storm) made landfall in northern Nicaragua. The storm would slowly move across Honduras, Belize, and Mexico over the next several days, dumping rain that led to widespread flooding that killed more than 100 people across Central America.
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September 16

• 1903: President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt was caught aboard his yacht in a hurricane, but made it to shore safely. Dozens of other boats in the area were sunk.
• 1928: Just two years after a Category 4 hurricane hit Miami, killing 373, another hurricane came ashore just north of the city, killing 2500 in Florida.
• 1961: Silver iodide was dropped into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther, marking the beginning of the project which would eventually become Project Stormfury, an attempt to weaken Atlantic hurricanes through cloud seeding.
• 1967: Hurricane Doria made landfall near the border of Virginia and North Carolina, moving in a very unusual southward direction. No major damage was reported, though three people were killed off the shore of New Jersey when their small boat sunk.
• 1971: Hurricane Edith made its third and final landfall in western Louisiana.
• 1961: Hurricane Debbie, the only tropical cyclone in history to directly impact the British Isles, brought damaging winds of over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) across Ireland.
• 1984: Tropical Storm Fran passed just south of the Cape Verde islands, causing severe flooding that killed at least 29 people.
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September 17

• 1947: A category 4 hurricane struck Fort Lauderdale, Florida, killing more than 50 people and causing more than $100 million in damage.
• 2001: Typhoon Nari brought up to 800 millimetres (31 in) of rain in a single day to parts of Taiwan, causing major flooding which killed more than 100 people.
• 2010: Hurricane Karl, the strongest hurricane on record in the Bay of Campeche, made landfall near Veracruz, Mexico, killing 22 people.
• 1986: The NOAA-10 weather satellite was launched into a polar orbit.
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September 18

• 1852: Clement Lindley Wragge, a meteorologist who pioneered the concept of giving names to tropical cyclones, was born in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England.
• 1974: Hurricane Fifi began skimming the northern coast of Honduras, eventually killing at least 8,000 people and causing $4 billion (2007 USD) in damage.
• 1906: A typhoon devastated the city and port of Hong Kong, killing 15,000 people: around 5% of the population at the time.
• 2013: Hurricane Manuel, the costliest Pacific hurricane on record, made landfall near Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, killing 169 people and causing more than US$4 billion in damage.
• 1962: The TIROS-6 weather satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
• 2020: Despite tropical cyclones being a rare occurrence in Europe, two tropical or subtropical cyclones, Cyclone Ianos and Subtropical Storm Alpha, made landfall on the same day in Greece and Portugal respectively.

September 19

• 1914: A tropical storm, the only tropical cyclone of the 1914 Atlantic hurricane season, dissipated over coastal Louisiana. This was the least active Atlantic hurricane season on record.
• 2012: Hurricane Nadine, one of the longest-lived tropical cyclones on record in the Atlantic Ocean, passed about 150 miles (240 km) south-southwest of Flores Island, Azores. Despite maintaining tropical storm strength or greater for 21 days, this was the storm's closest approach to land, and no damage or injuries were reported.
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September 20

• 1978: Hurricane Greta, after having weakened to a tropical depression due to its passage over Central America, restrengthened to a tropical storm in the far eastern Pacific Ocean. Because naming conventions for tropical cyclones in the Pacific are different from the Atlantic Ocean, the storm was renamed "Olivia", becoming a rare two-name storm.
• 2017: Hurricane Maria, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record, made landfall on Puerto Rico near its peak intensity, killing 64 people directly and causing catastrophic damage that left the entire island without power. This lack of power would eventually lead to 3,000 more deaths in the coming months.
• 1995: Hurricane Juliette, the strongest hurricane of the 1995 Pacific hurricane season, reached peak intensity over the open ocean, with maximum sustained winds of 150 miles per hour (240 km/h).
• 2010: Typhoon Fanapi made landfall in Fujian, China, killing 100 people.
• 1971: Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.

September 21

• 1909: A major hurricane made landfall near Grand Isle, Louisiana, bringing a severe storm surge that killed hundreds of people.
• 1938: The "Long Island Express", a Category 3 hurricane, crossed over Long Island and passed into New England without warning, causing severe damage and killing as many as 800 people.
• 1961: Hurricane Esther passed over Nantucket as a weakening Category 3 hurricane.
• 2006: Typhoon Yagi, the strongest storm of the 2006 Pacific typhoon season, reached a peak intensity of 910 millibars (26.87 inHg), with 10-minute maximum sustained winds of 195 kilometres per hour (121 mph).
• 2010: Hurricane Igor, one of the most damaging tropical cyclones ever to strike Canada, made landfall near Cape Race, Newfoundland.
• 1934: A violent typhoon, one of the strongest on record to strike land, killed more than 3,000 people in southern Japan.
• 2011: Typhoon Roke made landfall near Hamamatsu, Japan, the second typhoon to affect the area in just a few weeks.
• 2000: The NOAA-16 weather satellite was launched into a polar orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
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September 22

• 1980: Tropical Storm Hermine made landfall near Belize City, with maximum sustained winds of 70 miles per hour (110 km/h).
• 1989: Hurricane Hugo, the most damaging tropical cyclone in US history at the time, made landfall on Isle of Palms, South Carolina.
• 1984: Hurricane Odile made landfall near Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, Mexico. Up to 24.73 inches (628 mm) of rainfall caused severe flooding, especially around the Atoyac River where 21 people drowned.
• 1948: A hurricane, the strongest in 13 years to hit Florida, made landfall near Chokoloskee, killing 3 people in the state.
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September 23

• 1551: (possibly 1556): The deadliest tornado in European history hit the Grand Harbour of Malta, sinking at least 4 naval ships and killing at least 600 people.
• 1815: One of the most powerful tropical cyclones ever to strike New England came ashore along the coast of Long Island, causing major damage across several states and killing 38 people.
• 1983: Typhoon Forrest, one of the strongest tropical cyclones in recorded history, reached peak intensity over the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with maximum sustained winds of 205 km/h (125 mph) and a minimum central pressure of 885 mbar (26.1 inHg)
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September 24

• 2001: Just two weeks after the September 11 attacks, several tornadoes hit the Washington, D.C. metro area, including one which passed a few hundred feet from The Pentagon and skipped across Capitol Hill.
• 2010: Tropical Storm Matthew struck a wide area of Central America and Mexico with very heavy rain. Over the next several days, flooding and landslides would kill more than 100 people.
• 1929: A major hurricane began to move through the northern Bahamas, causing major damage and killing 48 people in the country.
• 1988: The NOAA-11 weather satellite was launched into a polar orbit.
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September 25

• 1846: Wladimir Köppen, developer of the Köppen climate classification system, was born in Russia.
• 1939: A tropical storm struck central far-southern California, one of only two tropical cyclones to do so. As many as 93 people were killed.
• 1963: Hurricane Edith struck the central Lesser Antilles. Ten people were killed on Martinique, and a wind gust of 127 miles per hour (204 km/h) was observed at Fort-de-France.
• 1997: Hurricane Nora struck central Baja California, killing 2 people.
• 1933: A major hurricane made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula near Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, killing more than 180 people
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September 26

• 1881: The first and deadliest recorded tornado in Japanese history killed 16 people in Miyazaki, Miyazaki Prefecture.
• 1985: Hurricane Gloria paralleled the East Coast of the United States, causing $2 billion (2006 USD) in damage.
• 2009: Typhoon Ketsana struck Luzon, Philippines, killing hundreds of people.
• 1959: Typhoon Vera, the strongest and deadliest typhoon to strike Japan on record, made landfall near Cape Shionomisaki, Honshu, killing more than 4,000 people.
• 1958: Typhoon Ida made landfall in southeastern Honshu, Japan, killing more than 1,000 people.
• 2016: The SCATSAT-1 weather satellite, operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation, was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre.
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September 27

• 1984: Hurricane Norbert, after moving in an unusual spiraling path over the eastern Pacific Ocean for nearly two weeks, dissipated over the Baja California Peninsula.
• 1991: Typhoon Mireille struck southern Japan, causing several billion dollars in damage.
• 1906: A major hurricane made landfall near Pascagoula, Mississippi, causing major damage as far east as Pensacola, Florida and killing 134 people.
• 1888: A network of weather observing stations was established in Serbia, with the First Serbian Observatory as the main meteorological center that would eventually be come the Republic Hydrometeorological Institute of Serbia.

September 28

• 1917: A major hurricane made landfall near Fort Walton Beach, Florida, with maximum sustained winds of 115 miles per hour (185 km/h)). This was the strongest hurricane to impact the Florida Panhandle until Hurricane Opal almost 80 years later.
• 1955: Hurricane Janet, one of the strongest tropical cyclones to make landfall in recorded history, struck Belize (then known as British Honduras) as a category 5 storm, killing almost 700 people.
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September 29

• 1915: A major hurricane struck New Orleans area, killing at least 275 people in the city and surrounding area.
• 1917: A major hurricane struck the northern Gulf Coast of the United States, though only 10 people were killed due to warnings well in advance of the storm.
• 2003: Hurricane Juan hit Halifax, Nova Scotia, the strongest storm to strike the area in over 100 years.
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September 30

• 1966: Hurricane Inez, which killed nearly 1000 people across several Caribbean islands, made landfall at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
• 2006: Record rainfall led to the collapse of the Gusau Dam in Zamfara, Nigeria, killing 40 people.
• 2012: Hurricane Nadine, the fourth-longest-lived tropical cyclone on record in the Atlantic Ocean, reached peak intensity west of the Azores.
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October 1

• 1976: Hurricane Liza, the third-deadliest Pacific hurricane on record, killed more than 600 people in northwestern Mexico.
• 2015: Hurricane Joaquin, one of the worst hurricanes to hit the Bahamas on record, sunk the SS El Faro, killing 33 crew aboard.
• 1986: Hurricane Paine reached peak intensity just off the coast of Cabo San Lucas, with sustained winds of 100 miles per hour (160 km/h).
• 2015: Several days of heavy rains led to a major landslide which destroyed the village of El Cambray Dos, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) east of Guatemala City, Guatemala. At least 280 people were killed.
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October 2

• 1858: A hurricane hit San Diego, California, the only known hurricane ever to strike the Pacific coast of the United States.
• 1898: The strongest hurricane on record to strike the U.S. state of Georgia made landfall on Cumberland Island, killing 179 people in the state.
• 1970: A weak but wet tropical depression began to drop heavy rain across the northeastern Caribbean Sea; particularly in Puerto Rico. Parts of the island would receive more than 40 inches (1,000 mm) of rain over the next week, the most on record for any tropical cyclone in the area.
• 1989: Typhoon Brian made landfall in Hainan in southern China, damaging 185,000 homes and killing 40 people.
• 1966: The ESSA-3 weather satellite was launched.
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October 3

• 1970: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was formed.
• 1979: A rare autumn tornado hit Windsor Locks, Connecticut, the costliest tornado ever to strike the Northeastern United States.
• 1992: Hurricane Virgil reached peak intensity off the southwestern coast of Mexico, with maximum sustained winds of 130 miles per hour (210 km/h). The storm would weaken before making landfall the next day, causing no deaths and only minor damage.
• 2010: The storm system that would eventually become Hurricane Otto began producing torrential rains in the northeastern Caribbean Sea, eventually bringing more than 20 inches (51 cm) of rain to the US and British Virgin Islands.
• 2005: Typhoon Longwang struck Fujian, China, causing major flooding that killed 147 people in the country.
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October 4

• 1869: The 1869 Saxby Gale, an Atlantic hurricane, killed more than 100 people around the Bay of Fundy.
• 1963: Hurricane Flora struck southwestern Haiti, killing 5,000 people in that country alone.
• 2009: Tropical Storm Grace formed over the Azores. This was the furthest northeast formation of a tropical cyclone in recorded history.
• 2013: An intense storm system dropped up to 58 inches (150 cm) of snow in western South Dakota, and spawned several significant tornadoes elsewhere in the central United States.
• 1949: A hurricane made landfall near Freeport, Texas, killing 2 people.
• 1872: Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, the weather forecasting and data organization for Argentina, was founded under the name Oficina Meteorológica Argentina.

October 5

• 1851: The Yankee Gale came to an end after sinking 74 ships in three days, drowning 150 crew members.
• 1948: A hurricane made three landfalls in one day, passing over Havana, Cuba and Miami, Florida in the process.
• 1951: Hurricane How sunk the ship Southern Isle off the coast of the Eastern United States, killing 17 crew.
• 2020: A tropical depression rapidly intensified into Hurricane Delta over the northwestern Caribbean Sea, with a record increase in wind speed from 35 mph (56 km/h) to 130 mph (210 km/h) in just 24 hours.

October 6

• 1941: A major hurricane made landfall in southern Florida, killing at least 10 people in the US and Bahamas.
• 1981: NLM CityHopper Flight 431, a short-range passenger flight, flew into a tornado and broke apart near Moerdijk, Netherlands. All 17 on board were killed.
• 1985: Record rainfall caused flooding and landslides across Puerto Rico, killing 180 people, including 130 in a single village destroyed by a landslide.
• 2008: Tropical Storm Marco formed in the Bay of Campeche, Marco had tropical-storm-force winds extending only 11.5 miles (18.5 km) from the center of the storm, making it the smallest tropical cyclone on record.
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October 7

• 1737: A severe cyclone killed 3,000 people in Calcutta, India.
• 2009: A Typhoon Parma, locally known as Typhoon Pepeng, finally began moving away from Luzon, Philippines, after three separate landfalls and days of flooding rains killed more than 300 people.
• 2003: Hurricane Olaf made landfall near Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico as a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 60 miles per hour (97 km/h). No damage was reported.
• 2014: The Himawari 8 geostationary weather satellite, operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency, was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center.
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October 8

• 1871: A severe drought, strong winds, and warm temperatures contributed to one of the worst wildfire disasters in history, with the Great Chicago Fire, the Peshtigo Fire, and several other blazes killing more than 2,000 people in the Midwestern United States.
• 2017: Hurricane Nate made landfall near Biloxi, Mississippi, causing relatively minor damage.
• 1976: Hurricane Madeline made landfall near Zihuatanejo, Mexico, killing 7 people.
• 1946: A hurricane made landfall near Tampa Bay, Florida, with maximum sustained winds of 85 miles per hour (137 km/h). As of 2018 this was the last hurricane to directly hit the city.
• 2009: Typhoon Melor made landfall near Tokyo, causing relatively minor damage.
• 1881: The deadliest typhoon in history destroyed the port city of Haiphong, Vietnam (then Dai Nam), killing around 300,000 people.
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October 9

• 1804: A hurricane brought strong winds, heavy rain and, unusually, heavy snow to parts of the eastern United States.
• 1943: An unnamed hurricane made landfall near Mazatlán, Mexico, killing around 100 people.
• 1997: Hurricane Pauline, the costliest hurricane ever recorded in the eastern Pacific Ocean, made landfall near Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca.
• 1992: Hurricane Winifred made landfall near Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico with maximum sustained winds of 110 miles per hour (180 km/h), killing 3 people
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October 10

• 1780: The Great Hurricane of 1780, the deadliest tropical cyclone ever in the Atlantic Ocean, began its trek through the Caribbean Sea, which eventually led to the deaths of 27,500 people.
• 1817: C. H. D. Buys Ballot, one of the founding fathers of meteorology, was born in Kloetinge, Netherlands.
• 1989: Typhoon Dan struck the Philippines and passed over Manila, leaving hundreds of thousands homeless and killing 58 people.
• 2018: Hurricane Michael, the strongest tropical cyclone to strike the United States since Hurricane Camille in 1969, made landfall in Mexico Beach, Florida, destroying most of the town.
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October 11

• 1846: A major hurricane made landfall near Havana, Cuba, killing hundreds of people.
• 2005: Hurricane Vince made landfall on the Iberian Peninsula as a tropical depression, the only tropical cyclone since the 1800s to do so.
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October 12

• 1634: The Burchardi flood struck the north coast of Germany and Denmark, killing thousands.
• 1962: The Columbus Day Storm brought damaging winds of more than 100 mph (160 km/h) to a large area of the Pacific Northwest.
• 1979: The record lowest surface air pressure outside of a tornado, 870 mbar, was measured in the eye of Typhoon Tip.
• 1997: Tropical Storm Olaf, an unusual storm which moved in several different directions over the course of two weeks, made its second and final landfall near Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico.
• 1981: Hurricane Norma made landfall near Mazatlán, Mexico, killing one person and causing severe crop damage. Its remnants would later cause severe flooding in Texas and Oklahoma, killing five more people.
• 2014: Hurricane Fay made landfall on Bermuda, the first hurricane to do so in 27 years. Remarkably, less than one week later, Hurricane Gonzalo would also make a direct hit on the island.

October 13

• 1998: Typhoon Zeb reached peak intensity east of the Philippines, with maximum sustained winds of 180 miles per hour (290 km/h). The storm would make landfall near Ilagan the next day, killing more than 100 people.
• 2006: A lake-effect snow storm, nicknamed "Aphid" by the local National Weather Service office, dumped as much as 60 inches (150 cm) of heavy, wet snow on Buffalo, New York, damaging 90% of the city's trees and resulting in 13 deaths.
• 1978: The TIROS-N weather satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
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October 14

• 1761: A tornado touched down in the area of Great Malvern, Worcestershire, in England.
• 1964: Hurricane Isbell made landfall near Everglades City, Florida, causing heavy rain and several tornadoes, as well as killing seven people.
• 2014: A major snowstorm and series of avalanches, due in part to the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud, killed 43 people in central Nepal.
• 1982: Typhoon Nancy made landfall on Luzon, Philippines, killing more than 100 people.
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October 15

• 1870: The Army Signal Service established the first federal weather office in the Chicago area, which would eventually become the National Weather Service forecast office for Chicago.
• 1987: The Great Storm of 1987 hit France and England.
• 1969: Hurricane Inga dissipated well southeast of Bermuda, 25 days after it formed. This made it the third-longest-lived tropical cyclone on record for the North Atlantic.
• 1972: The NOAA-2 weather satellite was launched. NOAA-2 operated for more than 2 years in a polar orbit, returning radiometric data about cloud cover and atmospheric temperature around the globe.
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October 16

• 1975: GOES-1, the first Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite was launched to observe cloud patterns, surface temperatures, and other atmospheric trends best viewed from space.
• 2017: Hurricane Ophelia, now an extratropical cyclone, crossed over western Ireland with wind gusts up to 191 kilometres per hour (119 mph), the fastest winds ever recorded on the island.
• 2016: Typhoon Sarika made landfall in Baler, Aurora, Philippines, with 1-minute sustained winds of 215 km/h (130 mph) and a minimum barometric pressure of 935 millibars (27.6 inHg).
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October 17

• 1091: One of the earliest recorded tornadoes killed two people in London.
• 1944: A major hurricane struck Isla de la Juventud, Cuba, killing around 300 people.
• 1998: Heavy rainfall, which would eventually cause severe flooding, began in central Texas, resulting in almost $1 billion (USD) in damage.
• 2007: The TV series Storm Chasers premiered on the Discovery Channel.
• 2022: The strongest extratropical cyclone in recorded history reached peak intensity over the Bellingshausen Sea.

October 18

• 1985: Typhoon Dot, one of the most severe tropical cyclones ever to strike the area, struck the Bicol Region of the Philippines, killing 101 people.
• 2009: Hurricane Rick, the third strongest Pacific hurricane on record, reached peak intensity with sustained winds of 180 miles per hour (290 km/h).
• 2010: Typhoon Megi, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, made landfall in the province of Isabela, Philippines, with 10-minute maximum sustained winds of 125 knots (144 mph; 232 km/h).
• 1906: A major hurricane struck southern Florida, killing more than 200 people.
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October 19

• 1924: The earliest known category 5 hurricane struck the Pinar del Río Province of Cuba, killing around 90 people.
• 1989: Typhoon Elsie struck Luzon, Philippines, as a category 5 storm, killing 47 people.
• 2005: Hurricane Wilma produced the lowest sea-level atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere while over the Caribbean Sea, at 882 millibars (26.05 inHg).
• 1983: Hurricane Tico made landfall near Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico, killing more than 130 people
• 2006: MetOp-A, the first weather satellite of the European MetOp program, was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
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October 20

• 1991: A severe wildfire fueled by Santa Ana winds became a firestorm in the northern suburbs of Oakland, California, destroying almost 4,000 structures and killing 25 people.
• 1997: Typhoon Ivan made landfall in northern Luzon, Philippines, killing 14 people.
• 2004: Typhoon Tokage made landfall on southern Japan, killing 95 people.
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October 21

• 1638: A severe storm known as The Great Thunderstorm produced an occurrence of what may have been ball lightning in a church in Widecombe in the Moor, Dartmoor, England, killing four people.
• 1972: Cyclone Bebe struck Funafuti atoll in the Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu), completely flooding the island and killing 6 people.
• 1998: Typhoon Babs struck the Philippines just days after the destructive landfall of Typhoon Zeb, killing more than 300 people.
• 1971: The ITOS-B weather satellite was launched but failed to reach orbit and burnt up on reentry, due to a malfunction in the Delta rocket meant to deliver it.
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October 22

• 1943: The crew of a German U-boat covertly planted Weather Station Kurt in northern Newfoundland and Labrador, attempting to gain an advantage in wartime weather forecasting.
• 1986: Hurricane Roslyn made landfall in Mazatlán, Mexico, causing only minor damage.
• 2015: Hurricane Patricia began rapidly intensifying, eventually becoming one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded with maximum sustained winds of 215 miles per hour (346 km/h).
• 2010: Cyclone Giri made landfall northwest of Kyaukpyu, Myanmar, killing 157 people.
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October 23

• 1091: The London tornado of 1091, the earliest and possibly strongest know tornado in the history of the British Isles, hit downtown London, killing two people.
• 1878: A hurricane struck North Carolina with winds of at least 100 miles per hour (160 km/h), killing at least 71.
• 1920: Ted Fujita, arguably the most influential severe weather researcher of all time, was born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.
• 1971: Typhoon Hester made landfall near Huế, South Vietnam (now Vietnam), killing more than 100 people.
• 1983: Heavy rain from the remnants of Tropical Storm Octave (1983) caused record crests on several rivers in Arizona.
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October 24

• 2006: Cyclone Xavier, an unusually intense early-season South Pacific tropical cyclone, reached peak intensity near Vanuatu.
• 2008: An unusual tropical cyclone made landfall in Yemen, causing historic floods which resulted in nearly $1 billion in damage and killed 180 people.
• 2010: Hurricane Richard made landfall in Belize. One person was killed when their boat capsized, and another was mauled to death by a jaguar which escaped due to storm damage.
• 1988: The passenger ferry MV Doña Marilyn sank while sailing from Manila to Tacloban, Philippines during Typhoon Ruby, killing at least 77 passengers, though there were reports of almost 400 killed. The storm also killed more than 200 people elsewhere in the Philippines.
• 1978: Nimbus 7, the last weather satellite of the Nimbus program, was launched.
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October 25

• 1921: A major hurricane made landfall near Tarpon Springs, Florida. As of 2018 this was the last major hurricane to hit the Tampa Bay area.
• 1992: Tropical Storm Zeke, the record-breaking 24th named storm of the 1992 Pacific hurricane season, formed over the open ocean south of Baja California.
• 1997: An unseasonably early winter storm hit the Midwestern United States, bringing record cold and snow to Nebraska.
• 2018: Typhoon Yutu made landfall on Tinian and Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, damaging or destroying the majority of buildings on the impacted islands and killing 2 people.
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October 26

• 1996: An unusual autumn tornado outbreak struck the northern Great Plains, including 14 in Minnesota, which was more than had ever struck the state for the entire month of October.
• 2010: An extratropical storm system brought a major tornado outbreak to the Central and Southeastern United States.
• 1987: Typhoon Lynn moved away from Taiwan, but not before causing severe flooding due to more than 1,700 millimetres (67 in) of rain in Taipei.
• 1978: Typhoon Rita made landfall over Luzon, Philippines, killing more than 300 people and leaving 200,000 homeless.
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October 27

• 1920: Seymour Hess, an extraterrestrial meteorologist who issued the first ever weather report for Mars, was born in Brooklyn, New York.
• 1959: An unnamed hurricane, the deadliest and one of the strongest ever to make landfall in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, struck Mexico near Manzanillo, Colima, killing around 1800 people.
• 2013: Cyclone Christian, also known as the "St. Jude Storm", struck northwestern Europe, killing 17 people.
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October 28

• 1996: The extratropical remnants of Hurricane Lili struck Great Britain, causing ₤150 million in damage and killing two people.
• 2011: The Suomi NPP weather satellite was launched.
• 2020: Hurricane Zeta made landfall near Cocodrie, Louisiana with maximum sustained winds of 115 miles per hour (190 km/h), making it the latest-in-the-calendar-year major hurricane to hit the United States on record.

October 29

• 1867: The San Narciso hurricane struck the Dutch West Indies (present-day Virgin Islands) and Puerto Rico, killing at least 811 people.
• 1963: The outer bands of Hurricane Ginny brought an unusual snowfall to parts of Maine.
• 1998: Hurricane Mitch, after drifting off the coast for nearly a week, finally made landfall in Honduras. It would cause historic flooding over the next few days, killing as many as 18,000 people.
• 2011: An unseasonably severe snowstorm caused dozens of deaths and record power outages in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states.
• 2012: Hurricane Sandy struck the Northeastern United States as an extratropical cyclone, causing severe flooding which killed 286 people.
• 1992: The Weather Service Modernization Act of 1992 was signed into law by US president George H. W. Bush.
• 1999: The strongest tropical cyclone on record in the North Indian Ocean made landfall in Odisha, India, killing nearly 10,000 people.
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October 30

• 2005: Hurricane Beta, the last major hurricane of the hyperactive 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, reached peak intensity with maximum sustained winds of 115 miles per hour (185 km/h) off the coast of Nicaragua.
• 2010: Hurricane Tomas passed through the Windward Islands, killing 14 people. This was the latest on record that a hurricane has affected the area.
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October 31

• 1961: Hurricane Hattie, a strong Category 4 Atlantic hurricane, struck Belize City, Belize (then British Honduras), killing more than 300 people.
• 1991: A storm known as the Halloween Blizzard began affecting Minnesota and Wisconsin, dropping up to 36 inches (91 cm) of snow over the next three days.
• 1994: American Eagle Flight 4184 encountered freezing rain while approaching O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. The plane crashed after undergoing heavy icing, killing all 68 people aboard.
• 1876: One of the deadliest tropical cyclones in history struck the Backergunge District of British India (present-day Bangladesh), killing 100,000 people directly. Another 100,000 people would die in a subsequent famine.
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November 1

• 1570: The All Saints' Flood, possibly causing the highest storm surge in the history of the Netherlands, killed around 20,000 people.
• 1974: AMeDAS, a network for gathering weather data around the islands of Japan, began operation.
• 1991: A strong storm system, better known as The Perfect Storm became a hurricane while lashing New England and Atlantic Canada with 30-foot (10-meter) waves and winds gusting above 60 mph (100 km/h).
• 1997: Cyclone Martin pushed a destructive storm surge across Manihiki atoll in the Cook Islands, destroying nearly all buildings on the island and killing 20 people.
• 1985: Hurricane Juan degenerated into an extratropical cyclone over Tennessee, and began causing rain in Virginia and West Virginia. Rain would continue to fall in the Virginias for 5 more days, leading to historic floods that would kill 62 people.
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November 2

• 1925: The dam holding back Llyn Eigiau in Snowdonia, Gwynedd, Wales failed after 5 days of heavy rain, killing 17 people.
• 1997: Tropical Storm Linda made landfall in the Vietnamese province of Ca Mau. More than 3000 people died, mostly on fishing boats.
• 2009: Typhoon Mirinae made landfall in the Vietnamese province of Phú Yên. More than 100 people were killed.
• 1997: Typhoon Keith passed through the Northern Mariana Islands with maximum sustained winds of 160 miles per hour (260 km/h), but did not directly hit any islands, and caused no deaths.
• 2000: Nearly 40 inches (1,000 mm) of rain, partially due to the remnants of Tropical Storm Paul, led to major flooding on the Big Island of Hawaii.
• 2016: The Himawari 9 geostationary weather satellite, operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency, was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center.
• 1995: Typhoon Angela struck the central Philippines, including Metro Manila, killing nearly 1,000 people.
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November 3

• 1966: The Arno River began overflowing into Florence, Italy, resulting in a historic flood which would kill more than 100 people and damage or destroy millions of pieces of priceless art and rare books.
• 2007: The extratropical remnants of Hurricane Noel struck Atlantic Canada and eastern New England, bringing hurricane-force winds to many coastal areas, as well as snow in Maine and parts of Canada.
• 2015: Cyclone Chapala, the strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Gulf of Aden, made landfall in mainland Yemen, killing at least 9 people.
• 2020: Hurricane Eta made landfall in Nicaragua, just 15 miles (24 km) north of where Hurricane Iota would make landfall just two weeks later.

November 4

• 1935: The Yankee Hurricane, so-called because of its unusual path traveling from the northeast, made landfall near Miami Beach, Florida, killing 19 people in Florida and The Bahamas.
• 1993: China Airlines Flight 605 overran the runway at Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong and crashed into Victoria Harbour while attempting to land during Tropical Storm Ira. There were no major injuries, and all passengers and crew were able to escape safely before the plane sank.
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November 5

• 1991: Tropical Storm Thelma caused major flooding in the Philippines, killing more than 5000 people.
• 2009: Hurricane Ida made landfall in Nicaragua, causing major damage that left 40,000 people homeless.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/November 5/2

November 6

• 2005: An early-morning tornado killed 25 people in Evansville, Indiana.
• 2009: Heavy rain began in the country of El Salvador, continuing for several days. This would eventually lead to major flooding and landslides that killed nearly 200 people.
• 2001: An extratropical storm system, formed partially from the remnants of two hurricanes, struck Atlantic Canada with winds as high as 96 miles per hour (154 km/h).
• 1977: After four days of heavy rain, the Kelly Barnes Dam failed, causing a flash flood in the nearby town of Toccoa, Georgia, killing 39 people.
• 1973: The NOAA-3 weather satellite was launched.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/November 6/5

November 7

• 2006: Japan's deadliest tornado since World War II destroyed several buildings and killed 9 people in Saroma, Hokkaido.
• 2013: Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest typhoon to make landfall anywhere in recorded history (tied with 2016's Typhoon Meranti), struck the island of Samar in the Philippines. More than 6,000 people were killed by the storm, mostly in Eastern Samar.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/November 7/2

November 8

• 2008: Hurricane Paloma, the second-strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean in November, reached peak intensity near the Cayman Islands, with maximum sustained winds of 125 knots (145 mph; 230 km/h).
• 2014: The strongest storm ever recorded in the Bering Sea reached peak intensity.
• 2018: A fast-moving firestorm known as the Camp Fire burned thousands of buildings and killed 85 people in and near the town of Paradise, California. It was the deadliest wildfire in the United States in 100 years.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/November 8/3

November 9

• 1913: The deadliest storm ever to hit the Great Lakes destroyed 19 ships and killed 250 people.
• 2005: An unusually late-season tornado struck the city of Hamilton, Ontario.
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November 10

• 1979: The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a severe gale on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew members.
• 1997: Hurricane Rick made landfall in southern Mexico, the second-latest Pacific hurricane ever to do so.
• 1967: The ESSA-6 weather satellite was launched.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/November 10/3

November 11

• 1940: The Armistice Day Blizzard dumped two or more feet (0.6 meters) of snow on the United States' Midwest, killing 154 people.
• 2009: Cyclone Phyan made landfall in the state of Maharashtra, India, causing very heavy rain that lead to the deaths of 20 people.
• 2013: A tropical cyclone made landfall in eastern Somalia, killing 140 people. The storm was one of only five storms in recorded history to strike the country, and by far the deadliest.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/November 11/3

November 12

• 1909: A hurricane made landfall in northwestern Haiti, killing hundreds.
• 1961: Hurricane Tara struck the Mexican state of Guerrero, killing as many as 500 people.
• 1970: The Bhola cyclone drove a 20 foot (7 meter) storm surge into areas of present-day Bangladesh, killing more than 500,000 people. It was the deadliest tropical cyclone in recorded history.
• 1925: Rasâdât-i Cevviwas, the precursor to the modern Turkish State Meteorological Service, was formed.

November 13

• 1972: A major extratropical cyclone known as Cyclone Quimburga struck northern and central Europe, causing severe damage and wind gusts as high as 245 kilometres per hour (152 mph).
• 1984: Hurricane Klaus dissipated in the northern Atlantic Ocean.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/November 13/2

November 14

• 1969: The Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 12 mission into space was struck by lightning, nearly causing a mission abort.
• 2013: Tropical Storm Podul made landfall in southern Vietnam, bringing up to 973 millimetres (38.3 in) of rain to the Quảng Ngãi Province, and causing major flooding that killed 42 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/November 14/2

November 15

• 1989: Dozens were killed in a severe weather outbreak across the eastern half of North America, mainly in the Southeastern and Northeastern United States.
• 2006: Hurricane Sergio, the strongest Pacific hurricane on record in the month of November, reached its peak intensity, with maximum sustained winds of 110 miles per hour (180 km/h).
• 1974: The NOAA-4 weather satellite was launched.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/November 15/3

November 16

• 1937: A plane attempting to land in bad weather near Ostend, Belgium, hit the chimney of a factory and crashed, killing several members of the Belgian royal family, including a baby born during the flight.
• 2007: Cyclone Guba reached peak intensity over the Coral Sea. Flooding from the storm's rainbands eventually killed more than 140 people in Papua New Guinea.
• 2020: Hurricane Iota, the 31st and final tropical cyclone of the record-breaking 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, made landfall in Nicaragua with maximum sustained winds of 145 miles per hour (230 km/h).

November 17

• 1999: Hurricane Lenny made landfall on Saint Croix. It was an unusual storm in many ways, striking the island as the strongest Atlantic hurricane on record for the month of November, while moving in an unprecedented west-to-east direction through the Caribbean.
• 2017: Cyclone Numa became a subtropical cyclone in an unusual location: the western Mediterranean Sea.
• 2013: An outbreak of 72 tornadoes killed 8 people and caused more than $1 billion in damage in the Midwestern United States.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/November 17/3

November 18

• 2014: A major cold snap through much of the US reached its peak, with some temperatures reaching 45 degrees below normal.
• 2017: The NOAA-20 weather satellite was launched.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/November 18/2

November 19

• 1421: St. Elizabeth's flood killed 2,000 or more people in the present-day Netherlands.
• 1912: Robert Simpson, former director of the National Hurricane Center and co-inventor of the Saffir–Simpson scale of hurricane intensity, was born in Corpus Christi, Texas.
• 1977: A severe tropical cyclone struck the Andhra Pradesh state of India with a devastating storm surge, killing more than 10,000 people.
• 2013: Up to 440 millimetres (17 in) of rain in just 90 minutes caused severe flooding on Sardinia, killing 18 people.
• 2016: The GOES-16 geostationary weather satellite was launched.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/November 19/5

November 20

• 1996: Hurricane Marco, the longest-lived tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean in November, reached its peak intensity while meandering over the Caribbean Sea.
• 2007: Cyclone Guba reached peak intensity as it drifted near Papua New Guinea, causing flooding which would kill 149 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/November 20/2

November 21

• 1971: Tropical Storm Laura made landfall in Belize, causing only minor damage.
• 1992: A three-day tornado outbreak began in the Southern United States, eventually producing six F4 tornadoes, two tornadoes with paths of more than 100 miles (161 km), and 26 deaths.
• 2006: A nor'easter gave parts of Georgia and South Carolina their earliest snowfalls on record.
• 1992: Cyclone Forrest, which had prompted unprecedented evacuations in Bangladesh before veering eastward, made landfall in northwestern Myanmar causing relatively minor damage.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/November 21/4

November 22

• 1970: Typhoon Patsy struck the coast of Vietnam, causing major damage and killing more than 200 people.
• 2016: Hurricane Otto became the latest-forming major (Category 3 or higher) Atlantic hurricane on record.
• 2020: Cyclone Gati, the strongest tropical cyclone on record to strike Somalia, made landfall near Hafun, killing 9 people.

November 23

• 1977: The first of the Meteosat series of weather satellites was launched.
• 1984: An unusually strong early-season Nor'easter reached its peak intensity off the coast of Florida.
• 1992: Typhoon Gay made landfall on the island of Guam. Due to the storm's strong winds and relative lack of rain, salt water that sprayed across the island caused extensive damage to vegetation.
• 1960: The TIROS-2 weather satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/November 23/4

November 24

• 1703: An intense European windstorm began to affect southern England and the English Channel. This storm or series of storms would last for more than a week, killing as many as 15,000 at sea.
• 1969: Hurricane Martha made landfall in the Veraguas Province of Panama, making it the only known tropical cyclone to directly hit the country.
• 1982: Hurricane Iwa, one of the strongest tropical cyclones in history to directly affect Hawaii, passed just northwest of Kauai.
• 2001: A tornado outbreak, including 3 violent F4 tornadoes, killed 12 people across 3 states in the Southeastern United States.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/November 24/4

November 25

• 1950: The Great Appalachian Storm of 1950 brought up to 57 inches (145 cm) of snow to areas in and near the Appalachian Mountains.
• 2007: Typhoon Mitag made landfall in northern Luzon, Philippines, causing major flooding that killed 67 people.
• 1980: Hurricane Karl formed from an extratropical cyclone over the Atlantic Ocean at a latitude of 37.7˚N. At the time this was the furthest north a hurricane had ever formed.
• 2003: Typhoon Lupit passed close to Ulithi, FSM, completely inundating the atoll.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/November 25/4

November 26

• 1898: A powerful storm system killed over 400 people and sank 150 ships over the next two days along the coast of New England.
• 2006: A large storm system began to drop heavy snow in the Pacific Northwest. Over the next five days it would cause heavy snow, ice storms, heavy rain, tornadoes and derechos over much of the United States and Canada.
• 2009: Typhoon Nida, one of the most powerful typhoons of the decade, reached peak intensity over the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with maximum sustained winds of 285 kilometres per hour (180 mph).
• 1997: Cyclone Osea reached peak intensity while passing through French Polynesia, destroying most buildings and infrastructure on Maupiti.
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November 27

• 1701: Anders Celsius, inventor of the Celsius temperature scale used in most countries, was born in Uppsala, Sweden.
• 1997: The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite was launched.
• 2014: A major hailstorm caused severe damage and injured 39 people in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/November 27/3

November 28

• 1905: The Mataafa Storm struck the North American Great Lakes, sinking or damaging 29 ships and killing 36 people.
• 1939: A smog event struck St. Louis, Missouri. The smog was so thick that cars needed headlights to drive during mid-day.
• 2005: The extratropical remnants of Tropical Storm Delta passed north of the Canary Islands, causing severe damage and 19 deaths.
• 1991: Tropical Storm Zelda began impacting the Marshall Islands with winds as high as 100 mph (160 km/h). On Ebeye Island 60% of homes were destroyed, leaving 6,000 people homeless.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/November 28/4

November 29

• 1992: A series of unusually powerful storms produced flash flooding, large hailstones, and two strong tornadoes in southeastern Queensland, Australia.
• 2004: Tropical Depression Winnie, despite having only weak wind speeds, brought heavy rain which caused deadly flooding across much of the Philippines. More than 1,500 people were killed.
• 2007: A large winter storm developed over the western United States which would impact much of the United States and southern Canada over the next week.
• 2001: Cyclone Trina formed near the Cook Islands, eventually causing severe flooding on the island of Mangaia after 8 days of heavy rain.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/November 29/4

November 30

• 1925: A late-season tropical storm made landfall just south of Tampa, Florida, eventually killing dozens of people, mostly due to sinking ships.
• 1961: Ansett-ANA Flight 325 flew into a severe thunderstorm shortly after takeoff from Sydney Airport, breaking up and crashing due to turbulence, killing all 15 people aboard.
• 1960: Typhoon Ophelia passed over Ulithi atoll in the Caroline Islands, destroying most structures on the island and sparking great societal change among the island's native population.
• 2010: 58 centimetres (23 in) of snow was reported at Balmoral, United Kingdom. This is the greatest snowfall in the November on record in the UK.

December 1

• 1768: The slave ship Fredensborg sunk in a storm off the coast of Norway.
• 2000: Tropical Storm Rumbia began moving across central Philippines, causing severe flooding over the course of several days that killed 48 people.
• 2013: Cyclone Alessia dissipated over the Northern Territory, Australia.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 1/3

December 2

• 1978: Heavy rains, including 512 millimetres (20.2 in) of rain in just 24 hours, caused severe flooding in Singapore, killing 7 people.
• 1996: The final WSR-57 weather radar was decommissioned at Charleston International Airport in Charleston, South Carolina. It was replaced by a new NEXRAD (WSR-88D) radar.
• 2004: Typhoon Nanmadol made landfall near Casiguran on Luzon, Philippines, killing at least 70 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 2/3

December 3

• 1838: Cleveland Abbe, pioneering weather forecaster and founder of the academic journal Monthly Weather Review, was born in New York City.
• 1999: European windstorm Anatol struck the coast of Sweden, Denmark, and Germany with wind gusts of up to 175 kilometers per hour (109 mph), causing over $2 billion in damage and killing 20 people.
• 2004: Cyclone Agni, a very rare tropical cyclone which approached and may have even crossed the equator, dissipated just off the Somali coast.
• 1978: An outbreak of tornadoes occurred before dawn in Arkansas and Louisiana, killing 5 people and causing major damage in Bossier City, Louisiana.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 3/4

December 4

• 2001: Hurricane Olga, the largest tropical cyclone on record in the Atlantic Ocean (in terms of physical size), dissipated east of The Bahamas.
• 2012: Typhoon Bopha, the strongest tropical cyclone on record to strike the island of Mindanao, Philippines, made landfall near Baganga. The storm hit with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph (280 km/h), and killed at least 1,900 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 4/2

December 5

• 1898: United States President William McKinley issued a declaration which led to the formation of the National Hurricane Center.
• 1952: The Great Smog descended on London, eventually leading to around 12,000 deaths from respiratory infections.
• 1953: An F5 tornado killed 38 people near Vicksburg, Mississippi.
• 2003: A nor'easter began impacting the Northeastern United States, eventually bringing more than 40 inches (100 cm) of snow to some areas.
• 2005: Hurricane Epsilon, the longest lived December Atlantic hurricane in history, reached peak intensity over the open ocean.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 5/5

December 6

• 2014: Typhoon Hagupit moved slowly through the Philippines, killing 22 people.
• 2003: Tropical Storm Odette, an unusual December tropical cyclone in the northern Atlantic Ocean, made landfall in Jaragua National Park, Dominican Republic. Eight people were killed due to flooding.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 6/2

December 7

• 1991: Cyclone Val began impacting the Samoan Islands, eventually causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage and killing 16 people.
• 2006: A significant tornado struck London, England, injuring 6 people.
• 2007: Cyclone Daman, the strongest storm of the 2007–08 South Pacific cyclone season, reached peak intensity as it approached Fiji.
• 1995: The Galileo Probe entered the atmosphere of Jupiter, recording the first in situ data from the atmosphere of a gas giant.
• 1975: Cyclone Joan made landfall near Mundabullangana, Western Australia, destroying more than 1,000 homes in Port Hedland.
• 1966: ATS-1, an experimental satellite which was the first to successfully reach geostationary orbit, was launched. Though nominally a communications satellite, the Spin Scan Cloud Camera on board ATS-1 would provide cloud images for use in weather forecasting for more than 10 years.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 7/6

December 8

• 1963: Pan Am Flight 214 was struck by lightning while in a holding pattern waiting to land in Philadelphia. The plane crashed near Elkton, Maryland, killing everyone aboard.
• 2007: The first in a series of winter storms began to affect portions of central and eastern North America. Over the next ten days 64 people would be killed as a result of the storms.
• 2011: A severe windstorm produced gusts of up to 165 miles per hour (270 km/h) in the British Isles.
• 1972: PAGASA, the weather forecasting organization of the Philippines, was created after the abolishment of the old Weather Bureau.

December 9

• 2003: Tropical Storm Peter, which had been a subtropical storm, became fully tropical. With the formation of Tropical Storm Odette five days earlier, this marked the first time that two tropical cyclones formed in December since 1887.
• 2006: Typhoon Utor struck the Philippines with maximum sustained winds of more than 100 miles per hour (160 km/h).
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 9/2

December 10

• 1951: As Typhoon Amy moved slowly across the Philippines, the volcano Mount Hibok-Hibok erupted several times. The typhoon killed nearly 1,000 people across the country, and the volcano killed or displaced nearly 30,000 people due to these and other eruptions in the surrounding days.
• 2000: Cyclone Sam, two days after making landfall over Lagrange Bay, continued to produce torrential rainfall over Western Australia, with up to 520 millimetres (20 in) of rain recorded in just 48 hours.
• 2021: A violent tornado outbreak killed 90 people in the Central United States, including 75 in Kentucky alone. The 69 tornadoes that touched down were the most ever recorded for an outbreak in the month of December, until that record was broken less than a week later.

December 11

• 1992: A strong nor'easter caused severe coastal flooding in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States, especially the state of New Jersey.
• 1998: Cyclone Thelma, the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Timor Sea, made landfall near Kuri Bay in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia.
• 1997: The Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty which commits its signatories to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to combat global warming, was adopted in Kyoto, Japan.
• 1972: The Nimbus 5 weather satellite was launched.
• 1970: The NOAA-1 weather satellite was launched.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 11/5

December 12

• 1887: The final tropical cyclone of the 1887 Atlantic hurricane season dissipated over Costa Rica. This was the fifth off-season storm of the year, the most of any year on record.
• 1925: A weak tornado struck Ireland Island, Bermuda, damaging roofs, sheds, and fences.
• 1960: A major snowstorm struck the Northeastern United States, killing hundreds.
• 2012: Cyclone Evan began impacting Samoa, eventually killing 14 people across the island country.
• 1984: The NOAA-9 weather satellite was launched into a polar orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 12/5

December 13

• 1916: A devastating series of avalanches known as "White Friday" killed 270 soldiers when it struck Austrian and Italian positions along the Italian Front of World War I. Some of the avalanches may have been deliberately triggered by mortar fire.
• 1981: A strong extratropical cyclone struck parts of the British Isles and France, causing major damage and killing 2 people.
• 2013: A historic snowfall struck parts of the Middle East, including the first snow recorded in Cairo in more than 100 years.
• 1995: Banat Air Flight 166 crashed after takeoff from Verona Villafranca Airport in Verona, Italy, killing all 49 on board. The crash occurred due to severe icing conditions in a heavy snowstorm causing a loss of lift.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 13/4

December 14

• 1287: A dike break resulted in St. Lucia's flood, the fifth-deadliest flood in recorded history. As many as 80,000 people were killed.
• 2006: A severe storm system brought flooding rains, landslides, and winds gusting up to 114 miles per hour (183 km/h) to the Pacific Northwest.
• 2008: Typhoon Dolphin sunk the combined cargo/passenger ship M/Bca Mae Jan, killing 47 people.
• 1991: A day after Cyclone Wasa dissipated near the Austral Islands, its remnants regenerated and were given the name Cyclone Arthur.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 14/4

December 15

• 1999: Intense rains in the Venezuelan state of Vargas caused extreme landslides and debris flows which continued into the next day, destroying entire towns and killing tens of thousands of people.
• 1999: Cyclone John made landfall near Whim Creek, Western Australia, with wind gusts measured as high as 210 km/h (130 mph) but relatively little damage reported.
• 2016: The first satellite of the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System, a multi-satellite project using GPS signals to probe the inner workings of the atmosphere and ocean within tropical cyclones, was launched.
• 1968: The ESSA-8 weather satellite was launched.
• 2021: A major severe weather outbreak struck the Central United States, including a derecho with winds up to 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) and 120 tornadoes—the most ever recorded in an outbreak in the month of December.

December 16

• 1964: Super Typhoon Opal, the last of a record 39 named storms in the 1964 Pacific typhoon season, dissipated near Hong Kong.
• 1997: Typhoon Paka struck Guam, damaging or destroying more than 10,000 structures on the island.
• 2000: A rare December tornado outbreak killed 12 people in Alabama, including 11 deaths from one F4 tornado in Tuscaloosa.
• 2011: Tropical Storm Washi made landfall on the Philippine island of Mindanao, causing flash flooding which killed over 1000 people.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 16/4

December 17

• 1944: Typhoon Cobra struck the US Fast Carrier Task Force in the Philippine Sea, killing 790 sailors.
• 2020: A severe snowstorm reached its peak intensity over the Northeastern United States, bringing more than 40 inches (100 cm) of snow to parts of several states.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 17/2

December 18

• 1957: A tornado outbreak, including three violent tornadoes, killed 17 people in Missouri and Illinois.
• 1908: Paul Siple, an antarctic explorer who proposed and helped develop the concept of wind chill, was born in Montpelier, Ohio
• 1959: Typhoon Gilda made landfall in the central Philippines, killing 23 people.

December 19

• 2001: The highest equivalent sea-level air pressure in recorded history, 1,085.6 millibars (32.06 inHg), was measured at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia.
• 2006: Cyclone Bondo reached peak intensity as a Category 4 storm while approaching Madagascar.
• 2009: A blizzard brought snowfall of well over 20 inches (51 cm) to parts of the eastern United States, including record totals in Washington, D.C. and Roanoke, Virginia.
• 2010: Record flooding reached its peak along the Gascoyne River in Western Australia. Some towns in the region received more than their average annual rainfall in just a few days.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 19/4

December 20

• 2006: The first of two blizzards within a 9-day period crippled the Front Range Urban Corridor of Colorado with up to 32 inches (81 cm) of snow.
• 2010: Tropical Storm Omeka formed near the International Date Line, and moved east into the Northeastern Pacific Ocean. This is the latest on record that a tropical storm occurred in this area.
• 1947: The Hydrometeorological Institute of Montenegro began operations.

December 21

• 1992: Martinair Flight 495 crash-landed in severe weather at Faro Airport in Faro, Portugal.
• 2009: Cyclone Laurence made landfall at Eighty Mile Beach, Western Australia, as a category 5 cyclone.
• 2017: Typhoon Tembin passed over Mindanao, Philippines, killing 266 people.
• 1963: The TIROS-8 weather satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 21/4

December 22

• 2004: A major snowstorm started dropping as much as 29 inches (74 cm) of snow in the Midwestern United States and Eastern Canada.
• 2009: American Airlines Flight 331 overran the runway at Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, Jamaica while attempting to land in heavy rain and strong wind. No one was killed in the crash, but the plane was completely destroyed.
• 1993: The Congress of Colombia passed Law 99 of 1993, mandating the creation of Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies.
• Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 22/3

December 23

• 2015: A tornado outbreak struck the Midwestern and Southeastern United States, killing 13 people.
• 1964: A severe tropical cyclone made landfall on Pamban Island between mainland India and Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka), killing at least 1,000 people on the small island alone.
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December 24

• 1971: LANSA Flight 508 crashed in the Peruvian jungle en route to Lima after being struck by lightning. Incredibly, a 17-year-old girl survived a 2-mile (3.2 km) fall strapped to her seat, and walked 10 days to safety.
• 1984: Hurricane Lili, one of just four Atlantic hurricanes on record in December, dissipated just north of Hispaniola.
• 1968: Allegheny Airlines Flight 736 crashed on approach to Bradford Regional Airport in Bradford, Pennsylvania during a driving snowstorm, killing 20 of the 47 people on board.
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December 25

• 1974: Cyclone Tracy, the smallest tropical cyclone ever recorded, completely destroyed Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, killing 71 people and causing more than $4 billion (AUD) in damage.
• 1994: The Christmas 1994 nor'easter caused high winds and coastal flooding along most of the east coast of the United States.
• 2004: A very strong winter storm dropped up to 12 inches (30 cm) of snow in the far southern United States; for many areas representing the only White Christmas in recorded history. In some areas, more snow accumulated in this storm than in all of previously recorded history.
• 2006: Cyclone Bondo made landfall in northern Madagascar, killing 11 people.
• 2011: A severe extratropical cyclone struck Scandinavia, with winds up to 41 metres per second (92 mph; 150 km/h) recorded. In Finland it was described as the worst storm in 10 years, and one person was killed by a falling tree.
• 1717: An early morning storm struck a large portion of northern Europe, causing a storm surge that killed around 14,000 people in the Netherlands, Germany, and Scandinavia.
• 1981: Typhoon Lee struck the central Philippines, killing 188 people.
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December 26

• 1969: A strong nor'easter began affecting a large portion of the Eastern United States and Atlantic Canada. Eventually more than 30 inches (76 cm) of snow would fall in many areas, with snowdrifts up to 30 feet (9 m) high.
• 2000: A tropical cyclone struck Sri Lanka, killing nine people. This was the strongest storm to strike the island nation since 1978.
• 2001: Tropical Storm Vamei formed only 1.4° (104 miles, 170 km) from the equator. This was the closest to the equator a tropical cyclone had ever formed. Tropical cyclones rarely approach the equator due to the lack of the Coriolis force which typically powers their circulation.
• 2015: A tornado outbreak killed 13 people and caused major damage in northeastern Texas.
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December 27

• 1836: The deadliest avalanche ever to strike the United Kingdom killed eight people in Lewes, Sussex, England.
• 2002: Cyclone Zoe reached peak intensity with a minimum central pressure of 890 millibars (26.28 inHg), the strongest tropical cyclone on record in the Southern Hemisphere at the time (surpassed by Cyclone Winston in 2016).
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December 28

• 1879: A waterspout destroyed a rail bridge over the Firth of Tay, Scotland, causing a train crash which killed at least 75 people.
• 1898: Carl-Gustaf Rossby, a pioneer in atmospheric dynamics, was born in Sweden.
• 2008: Two avalanches killed 8 snowmobilers near Fernie, British Columbia, Canada
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December 29

• 1994: Turkish Airlines Flight 278 crashed while attempting to land at Van Ferit Melen Airport in a driving snowstorm, killing 57 of the 76 people on board.
• 2011: Cyclone Thane reached peak intensity over the Bay of Bengal, with 3-minute maximum sustained winds of 140 kilometres per hour (85 mph). The storm made landfall near Chennai, India the next day, killing 48 people.
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December 30

• 1954: Hurricane Alice formed in the eastern Caribbean Sea. Alice was one of only two North Atlantic tropical cyclones on record to span two calendar years, and the only hurricane to do so.
• 2000: A winter storm known as a nor'easter brought up to 29 inches (74 cm) of snow to the Northeastern United States.
• 1994: The NOAA-14 weather satellite was launched into a polar orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
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December 31

• 1963: An unusual snowstorm struck a broad area of the Southeastern United States, leaving record snows in several states.
• 2001: Cyclone Waka struck Vavaʻu, Tonga, causing major damage.
• 2010: A tornado outbreak killed 9 people in Arkansas and Missouri.
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