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

 Today is Saturday  October 21, 2006.
 This is the 294th day of the year, there are 71 days left.

 On this day...
    In 1934 A severe windstorm lashed the northern Pacific coast.  In
            Washington State, the storm claimed the lives of
            22 persons, and caused 1.7 million dollars damage, mostly
            to timber.  Winds, gusting to 87 mph at North Head WA,
            produced waves twenty feet high.
    In 1957 The second in a series of unusual October storms hit
            southern California causing widespread thunderstorms.
            Santa Maria was drenched with 1.13 inches of rain in two
            hours.  Hail drifted to 18 inches in East Los Angeles.
            Waterspouts were sighted off Point Mugu and Oceanside.
            (20th-21st)
    In 1987 Cold arctic air continued to invade the central U.S.
            Eleven record lows were reported in the Great Plains
            Region, including lows of 12 at Valentine NE, and
            9 at Aberdeen SD.  Temperatures warmed rapidly during the
            day in the Southern and Central Plains Region.  Goodland
            KS warmed from a morning low of 24 degrees to an
            afternoon high of 75 degrees.
    In 1988 Joan, the last hurricane of the season, neared the coast
            of Nicaragua packing 125 mph winds.  Joan claimed more
            than 200 lives as she moved over Central America, and
            total damage approached 1.5 billion dollars.  Crossing
            more than 40 degrees of longitude, Hurricane Joan never
            strayed even one degree from the 12 degree north
            parallel.
    In 1989 Unseasonably cold weather continued to grip the south
            central and southeastern U.S.  Twenty cities reported
            record low temperatures for the date, including Calico
            Rock AR with a reading of 26 degrees, and Daytona Beach
            FL with a low of 41 degrees.  Squalls in the Great Lakes
            Region finally came to an end, but not before leaving
            Marquette MI buried under 12.7 inches of snow, a record
            24 hour total for October.
    In 2005 Hurricane Wilma, who was the most intense hurricane ever
            recorded in the Atlantic basin just days earlier, slammed
            into Cozumel and Cancun on the northeast Yucatan Peninsula
            with 140 mph winds...the same area that was hit just over
            3 months earlier by Hurricane Emily, with 135 mph winds.
            Wilma dropped 64 inches of rain in some areas of the 
            Yucatan Peninsula, and did major damage to the resort
            areas of Cancun, Cozumel, and Playa Del Carmen, among
            others. She weakened to 100 mph while over the Yucatan,
            before re-emerging into the Gulf Of Mexico.

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