![]() ![]() The heroic teacher died trying to save her students by moving them into ditches. (National Weather Service Records for Denver CO)Īn F3 tornado tracked 8 miles from Commerce Landing in Tunica County, Mississippi cutting an 8 mile path to near Robinsonville & Clark in Mississippi, killing 20 people and injuring 141 others.ġ7 people were killed in a plantation school at Commerce Landing, making it the 3rd deadliest school tornado disaster in U.S. The temperature in Gavilian, New Mexico plunged to 50° below zero, a new record for the state.ĭenver CO minimum temperature for February is 25 degrees below zero recorded on (today 2-1-1951) and also on. Communications and utilities were interrupted for a week to ten days. The greatest ice storm of record in the United States produced glaze up to four inches thick from Texas to Pennsylvania causing twenty-five deaths, 500 serious injuries, and 100 million dollars damage. One train was buried in a snowdrift 6/10 of a mile long and 36.7 feet deep. Railway officials declared the worst conditions in Canadian rail history. On this date through the 9th, a memorable blizzard occurred in Saskatchewan, Canada. Minimum temperature for Washington, DC for the date 6☏ Bob Swanson, USA TODAY's assistant weather editor, November 24, 2005) The highest air pressure ever recorded in the US was 31.85 inches in mercury (1078.56 millibars) in Januin the city of Northway, Alaska. The City data comes from Christopher Burt's list of extreme pressures for US Cities The mercury dropped to -45° at Pittsburg, NH. The Eastern US record was set the previous day (January 31, 1920) in Northfield VT at 31.14 in, though it was the same air mass. Hartford, Connecticut hits 31.06 inches of mercury (1051 mb). The Seattle cathedral dome collapsed under the snow’s weight.Ītmospheric pressure builds over New England to extreme levels.īarometer in Portland, Maine reads 31.09 inches of mercury (1053 mb), the highest February sea-level pressure ever recorded in the Eastern US. Seattle, WA was buried under 21.5 inches of snow, their greatest 24-hour snowfall.Ī total of 32.5 inches of wet snow accumulated over three days. In 1902, the hurricane forecasting was transferred to Washington, DC. Who reportedly feared hurricanes more than the Spanish Navy in the Spanish American War. Observation stations had been established in 1898 throughout the central and eastern Caribbean by President McKinley, ![]() Weather Bureau Hurricane Forecasting Center was moved from Kingston, Jamaica to Havana, Cuba. Parts of Chicago and central Cook County remained under a winter weather advisory on Friday, after a winter storm warning expired.Thunder and lightning accompanied sleet and snow at Saint Louis MO during the evening hours, even though the temperature was just 13 degrees above zero. ![]() Buffalo Grove: 0.9 inches (as of 7 a.m.).Villa Park: 1.2 inches (as of 7:30 a.m.).West Chicago: 1.6 inches (as of 7 a.m.).La Grange Park: 2 inches (as of 7 a.m.).Park Ridge: 2.1 inches (as of 7:35 a.m.).O'Hare Airport: 3.3 inches (as of noon).Bridgeview, Chicago: 3.4 inches (as of noon).Douglas, Chicago: 3.4 inches (as of 7:20 a.m.).West Ridge, Chicago: 3.6 inches (as of 7 a.m.).Chicago Ridge: 4.2 inches (as of 7 a.m.). ![]()
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