TODAY  Version 3.7   06/24/94       Copyright 1986, 1994  By Patrick Kincaid

 Today is Tuesday  August 29, 2006.
 This is the 241st day of the year, there are 124 days left.

 On this day...
    In 1962 Hackberry LA was deluged with 22.00 inches of rain in 24
            hours, establishing a state record.
    In 1965 A national record for the month of August was established
            when 2.5 inches of snow fell atop Mount Washington NH.
            Temperatures in New England dipped to 39 degrees at
            Nantucket MA, and to 25 degrees in Vermont.  It was the
            earliest freeze of record for many locations.  The
            temperature at Chicago IL dipped to 43 degrees.
    In 1978 A tornado from Tropical Storm Debra wrecked parts of Memphis,
            coming within a mile of Elvis Presley's Graceland.
    In 1987 Some of the most powerful thunderstorms in several years
            developed over the piedmont of North Carolina, and
            marched across central sections of the state during the
            late afternoon and evening hours.  Baseball size hail was
            reported around Albemarle, while thunderstorm winds
            downed giant trees around High Falls.
    In 1988 Cool air invaded the north central U.S.  Ten cities
            reported record low temperatures for the date, including
            Bismarck ND with a reading of 33 degrees.  Deerfield, a
            small town in the Black Hills of South Dakota, reported
            a morning low of 23 degrees.  The remnants of Tropical
            Storm Chris drenched eastern Pennsylvania with up to 5.50
            inches of rain, and produced high winds which gusted to
            90 mph, severely damaging a hundred boats in Anne Krundel
            County MD.
    In 1989 Evening thunderstorms produced destructive lightning in
            West Virginia.  The lightning caused widepsread damage,
            particularily in Doddridge County.  Numerous trees were
            downed closing many roads.  Fire companies had a
            difficult time tending to the many homes and trailers on
            fire.  Anchorage AK reported a record 9.60 inches of rain
            for the month of August.  The average annual
            precipitation for Anchorage is just slighty more than
            fifteen inches.  Three day rainfall totals in northwest
            Missouri ranged up to 8.20 inches at Maryville.
    In 2004 For the fourth time in a month, the Carolina coast
            was affected by a tropical weather system. After
            Hurricane Alex on the 3rd and 4th, the remnants of
            Tropical Storm Bonnie on the 12th, and Hurricane Charley
            on the 14th, Tropical Storm Gaston with 70 mph winds,
            came ashore on the 29th near Charleston. After bringing
            heavy rain, flooding, and tornadoes to the region, the
            storm was picked up by an approaching cold front, which
            turned Gaston north, then northeast off the U.S. Coast
            on the 30th (29th-30th)...but not before bringing severe
            flooding to the Richmond, Virginia area. That same day,
            Tropical Storm Hermine formed in the Atlantic, a record
            8th named storm for the month of August. Hermine made
            landfall near New Bedford, Massachusetts on the 31st,
            before becoming extratropical.
    In 2005 Hurricane Katrina, who made landfall in south Florida
            on the 25th as a Category 1 hurricane, made its final
            landfalls near Buras, LA, and Biloxi, MS with 140 mph
            winds. After moving off the western Florida coast into
            the Gulf Of Mexico on the 26th, she rapidly intensified
            and grew in size. On the 28th, her pressure fell to 902
            millibars, making her the 4th lowest pressure in recorded
            history in the Atlantic Basin, and the lowest pressure in
            the Gulf Of Mexico, passing Hurricane Allen (899 millibars
            while in the Caribbean, crossing the Yucatan straight),
            and Camille (905 millibars) that struck this same region
            in 1969. Only Hurricanes Gilbert (888 millibars, the record
            in the Atlantic basin), the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane that
            struck the Florida Keys (892 millibars), and Allen (899
            millibars, as noted above), had lower pressures. At her
            her winds were at 175 mph, with gusts to near 190 mph.
            Hurricane force winds extended out 125 miles from the
            center, and tropical storm force winds extended out 230
            from the center. Widespread flooding, damage, high winds
            (many gusts near or well over 100 mph), and numerous
            tornadoes were seen across much of the southeast United
            States. Some levees in New Orleans were breached, and
            part of the roof of the Superdome...where over 10,000
            had taken "a shelter of last resort"...was ripped off by
            the storm. In Biloxi, many buildings were literally "swept
            away" by the storm surge...which caused record flooding in
            the Mobile, Alabama area. Tropical Storm force winds were
            felt as far east as the eastern Florida panhandle. Katrina
            was the third major hurricane to move through the Gulf Of
            Mexico this season...the last time that occurred was 1916.
            Katrina became the costliest U.S. hurricane ever.

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