Wednesday Daily Summary

DATASTREME ATMOSPHERE DAILY SUMMARY

Wednesday, 7 January 2009

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FOR YOUR INFORMATION:

Eastern Orthodox Christmas -- Today (7 January 2009) is the religious feast of Christmas in most Eastern Orthodox Churches. This celebration is defined as occurring 12 days after the canonical solstice on 25 December in the ancient Julian calendar. The Orthodox Churches of eastern and central Europe continue to observe the Julian calendar rather than the modern western Gregorian calendar.

HISTORICAL WEATHER EVENTS - 7 January

From the files of the Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO and Intellicast

...1821...A big snowstorm from Virginia to southern New England came to an end, leaving a foot of snow at Washington, DC, 14 inches at Baltimore, MD, 18 inches at Philadelphia, PA, and 14 inches at New York City. (Intellicast)
...1873...A blizzard raged across the Great Plains. Many pioneers, unprepared for the cold and snow, perished in southwest Minnesota and northwestern Iowa. (David Ludlum)
...1886...A severe cold wave in the southern section of the country brought the worst freeze since 1835 in Florida. (Intellicast)
...1913...Tucson, AZ set its all time record low temperature with a frigid zero degrees. (Intellicast)
...1971...The temperature at Hawley Lake, located southeast of McNary, AZ, plunged to 40 degrees below zero to establish a state record low temperature for the Grand Canyon State. (The Weather Channel)
...1987...A storm in the southwestern U.S. produced 30 inches of snow north of Zion National Park in southern Utah, with 18 inches reported at Cedar Canyon, UT. (National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...A winter storm in the southeastern U.S. produced 27 inches of snow in the Bad Creek area of South Carolina, and claimed the lives of two million chickens in Alabama. (National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1989...Severe thunderstorms produced six tornadoes in southern Illinois and Indiana. A tornado (reaching F-4 intensity) in southern Illinois obliterated half the community of Allendale, injuring fifty persons and causing more than five million dollars damage, while thunderstorm winds gusting higher than 100 mph caused ten million dollars damage at Franklin, KY. Twenty-five cities, from the Gulf coast to Michigan, reported record high temperatures for the date. Fargo, ND was in the middle of a 3-day snowstorm over which time 24.4 inches of snow fell on the city -- the greatest single storm total ever for the location. (National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) (Intellicast)
...1990...A rapidly intensifying low pressure system and a vigorous cold front brought heavy rain and high winds to the Pacific Northwest. Two to five inches rains soaked western Washington and western Oregon, and winds gusting above 70 mph caused extensive damage. Wind gusts on Rattlesnake Ridge in Washington State reached 130 mph. (National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1992...A rare January thunderstorm rumbled over Sioux Falls, SD. This was the first January thunderstorm recorded in the city since 1939. Meanwhile, thunderstorms produced six tornadoes (one F2 and five F1) near Grand Island, NE -- the first tornadoes ever recorded in Nebraska during January. (Intellicast)
...1995...A severe thunderstorm produced a downburst wind gust to 146 mph at Seymour-Johnson AFB in Goldsboro, NC. (Intellicast)
...1996...The "blizzard of '96" clobbered a huge area from the Ohio Valley to the mid-Atlantic and Northeast with record snows. The storm began over the mid-Atlantic on the 6^th, and ended over New England on the 8^th. Low pressure developed over the southeast on the 6^th, and eventually became a 983-millibar storm center off the Del-Mar-Va Peninsula. 42.5 inches of snow was recorded at Bayard, WV while 39 inches fell at Snowshoe, WV. A new snowfall record for New Jersey was set when 35 was measured at White House. All the big cities were buried: Washington/Dulles - 24.6 inches, Baltimore - 22.5 inches, Philadelphia - 30.7 inches (biggest snowfall ever), New York City - 27.5 inches, and Boston - 18.2 inches. Other snowfall totals included 38 inches at Upper Strasburg, PA, 37 inches at Shenandoah, VA, 36 inches at Standfordville, NY, 32 inches at Great Barrington, MA, 28 inches in the Pine Mountains in KY, 27 inches at Coventry, RI, and 26 inches at Milford, CT. Cincinnati, Ohio had 14.4 inches for its greatest single storm snowfall on record. This event was the second in an unrelenting, paralyzing "siege of snowstorms" along the East Coast during a ten-day period. (Intellicast)