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

 Today is Thursday  August 4, 2005.
 This is the 216th day of the year, there are 149 days left.

 On this day...
    In 1882 A vivid aurora was visible from Oregon to Maine, down the
            east coast as far as Mayport FL, and inland as far as
            Wellington KS.  Observers at Louisville KY noted "merry
            dancers" across the sky.  Observers at Saint Vincent MN
            noted it was probably the most brilliant ever seen at
            that location.
    In 1930 The temperature at Moorefield WV soared to 112 degrees to
            establish a state record, having reached 110 degrees the
            previous day.  Widespread drought after April of that
            year caused some towns to haul water for domestic use,
            and many manufacturing plants were barely operational.
    In 1961 Spokane WA reached an all-time record high of 108 degrees.
            Kalispell MT set an all-time record with a reading of 105
            degrees.
    In 1980 A record forty-two consecutive days of 100 degree heat
            finally came to an end at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.
            July 1980 proved to be the hottest month of record with
            a mean temperature of 92 degrees.  There was just one day
            of rain in July, and there was no measurable rain in
            August.  There were 18 more days of 100 degree heat in
            August, and four in September.  Hot weather that summer
            contributed to the deaths of 1200 people nationally, and
            losses from the heat across the country were estimated at
            twenty billion dollars.
    In 1987 A cold front brought relief from the heat to a large part
            of the Midwest, while hot weather continued in the south
            central and eastern U.S.  Morning thunderstorms in
            Nebraska produced 8.71 inches of rain at Dalton, and hail
            up to three inches in diameter, which accumulated up to
            four feet deep near the town of Dix.
    In 1988 Thunderstorms produced severe weather from eastern Iowa
            to Lower Michigan during the afternoon and evening hours,
            producing golf ball size hail and spawning several
            tornadoes.  A thunderstorm at Maquoketa IA produced wind
            gusts to 75 mph.
    In 1989 Thunderstorms produced severe weather from eastern
            Nebraska and northeastern Kansas to the Great Lakes
            Region, with 150 reports of large hail or damaging winds
            during the afternoon, evening, and night.  Thunderstorms
            produced tennis ball size hail at Claremont MN, and wind
            gusts to 75 mph at Milwaukee WI.  Thunderstorms
            representing what once was Hurricane Chantal produced
            five inches of rain at Grant MI, and deluged Chicago IL
            with more than three inches of rain in three hours.
    In 2000 Alberto, the first tropical system of the 2000 Hurricane
            Season formed in the Atlantic, just west of the Cape
            Verde Islands. It would go from a Tropical Storm to a
            Hurricane three times...during its erratic path...before
            being absorbed by a large extratropical system on the
            23rd...becoming the 3rd longest Atlantic tropical
            system, and the longest August Atlantic tropical system.

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