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

 Today is Friday  January 13, 2006.
 This is the 13th day of the year, there are 352 days left.

 On this day...
    In 1886 A great blizzard struck the state of Kansas without warning.
            The storm claimed 50 to 100 lives, and eighty percent of the
            cattle in the state.
    In 1888 The mercury plunged to 65 degrees below zero at Fort Keough,
            located near Miles City MT.  The reading stood as a record
            for the continental U.S. for sixty-six years.
    In 1903 A wall of water (storm surge) to 40 feet rushed across parts
            of the Society Islands in the South Pacific.
    In 1912 The temperature at Oakland MD plunged to 40 degrees below
            zero to establish a state record.
    In 1987 Dry and mild weather prevailed across the country.  Nineteen
            cities in the Upper Midwest reported record high temperatures
            for the date, including Grand Island NE with a reading of
            67 degrees.
    In 1988 A fast moving cold front ushered arctic cold into the north
            central and northeastern U.S.  Mason City IA reported a
            wind chill reading of 51 degrees below zero, and Greenville,
            Maine reported a wind chill of 63 degrees below zero.
            Winds along the cold front gusted to 63 mph at Rochester NY,
            and a thunderstorm along the cold front produced wind gusts
            to 62 mph at Buffalo NY, along with snow and sleet.
    In 1989 Friday the 13th was bad luck primarily for the south central
            U.S. as an upper level weather disturbance spread a mixture
            of snow and sleet and freezing rain across Texas and
            Oklahoma.  Snowfall totals in central Oklahoma ranged up to
            8.5 inches at Norman.
    In 1990 A winter storm in the southwestern U.S. produced more than
            twelve inches of snow in the mountains of California and
            Nevada. In northern California, Huntington Lake was buried
            under 40 inches of snow, and up to 20 inches was reported
            in northeastern Nevada. Heavy rain soaked some of the lower
            elevations of California. Gibraltar Dam CA was drenched with
            5.33 inches of rain in two days.

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