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

 Today is Friday  August 5, 2005.
 This is the 217th day of the year, there are 148 days left.

 On this day...
    In 1843 A spectacular cloudburst near Philadelphia turned the
            small creeks and streams entering the Delaware River into
            raging torrents.  As much as sixteen inches of rain fell
            in just three hours.  Flooding destroyed thirty-two
            county bridges, and caused nineteen deaths.  It is
            believed that several small tornadoes accompanied the
            torrential rains, one of which upset and sank more than
            thirty barges on the Schuylkill River.
    In 1924 The SS Frankenfels measured the sea surface of the Persian
            Gulf at 96 degrees, possibly the highest ever observed.
    In 1961 The temperature at Ice Harbor Dam WA soared to
            118 degrees to equal the state record established at
            Wahluke on the 24th of July in 1928.  The afternoon high
            of 111 degrees at Havre MT was an all-time record for
            that location.
    In 1987 Severe thunderstorms raked eastern South Dakota.
            Thunderstorms spawned half a dozen tornadoes, and
            produced softball size hail at Bowdle, and wind gusts to
            90 mph south of Watertown.  Hot weather continued in
            eastern Texas.  Afternoon highs of 100 at Houston and 106
            at Waco equalled records for the date.
    In 1988 Thunderstorms produced severe weather from Indiana and
            Lower Michigan to Pennsylvania and New York State during
            the day.  Thunderstorms in Michigan produced wind gusts
            to 80 mph at Ashley, Hastings and Lennon.
    In 1989 Thunderstorms produced severe weather in Oklahoma, and
            from Iowa to the Upper Ohio Valley, with 216 reports
            of large hail or damaging winds between early Saturday
            morning and early Sunday morning.  Thunderstorms moving
            across Iowa about sunrise produced extremely high winds
            which caused ten million dollars damage to crops in
            Carroll and Greene Counties.  Thunderstorm winds at
            Jefferson IA reached 102 mph.  Afternoon thunderstorms
            produced tennis ball size hail at Bay Mills WI.

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