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

 Today is Saturday  March 11, 2006.
 This is the 70th day of the year, there are 295 days left.

 On this day...
    In 1911 Tamarack CA reported 451 inches of snow on the ground,
            a record for the U.S.
    In 1948 Record cold followed in the wake of a Kansas blizzard.
            Lows of -25 degrees at Oberlin, Healy and Quinter
            established a state record for the month of March.
            Lows of -15 at Dodge City, -11 at Concordia, and -3 at
            Wichita were also March records.
    In 1962 One of the most paralyzing snowstorms in decades
            produced record March snowfalls in Iowa.  Four feet of
            snow covered the ground at Inwood following the storm.
    In 1986 Lightning struck a radio-transmitter tower in Arizona's
            Baxter County twice in 3 hours.
    In 1987 Unseasonably cold weather prevailed in the southeastern
            U.S., and a storm over the Gulf of Mexico spread rain
            and sleet and snow into the Appalachian Region.  Sleet
            was reported in southern Mississippi.
    In 1988 A blizzard raged across the north central U.S.  Chadron
            NE was buried under 33 inches of snow, up to 25 inches
            of snow was reported in eastern Wyoming, and totals in
            the Black Hills of South Dakota ranged up to 69 inches
            at Lead.  Winds gusted to 63 mph at Mullen NE.  Snow
            drifts thirty feet high were reported around Lusk WY.
    In 1989 Twenty-one cities in the central and southwestern U.S.
            reported new record high temperatures for the date.
            The afternoon high of 95 degrees at Lubbock TX equalled
            their record for March.
    In 1990 Forty-four cities in the central and eastern U.S.
            reported record high temperatures for the date.  Record
            highs included 71 degrees at Dickinson ND and Williston
            ND, and 84 degrees at Lynchburg VA, Charleston WV and
            Huntington WV.  Augusta GA and Columbia SC tied for
            honors as the hot spot in the nation with record highs
            of 88 degrees.  A vigorous cold front produced up to
            three feet of snow in the mountains of Utah.

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