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AUGUST 26TH, 1949 |
A hurricane made landfall at Delray Beach. Winds reached 153 mph at the Jupiter Lighthouse before the anemometer failed. The hurricane caused 45 million dollars damage to crops, and also caught the Georgia and South Carolina coast resulting in another two million dollars damage.
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AUGUST 26TH, 1883 |
Krakatoa Volcano exploded in the East Indies. The explosion was heard more than 2500 miles away, and every barograph around the world recorded the passage of the air wave, up to seven times. Giant waves, 125 feet high and traveling 300 mph, devastated everything in their path, hurling ashore coral blocks weighing up to 900 tons, and killing more than 36,000 persons. Volcanic ash was carried around the globe in thirteen days producing blue and green suns in the tropics, and then vivid red sunsets in higher latitudes. The temperature of the earth was lowered one degree for the next two years, finally recovering to normal by 1888.
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AUGUST 25TH, 1635 |
"Great Colonial Hurricane" delivers a 20 ft. (6 m) storm surge to New England.
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AUGUST 25TH, 1885 |
A severe hurricane struck South Carolina causing 1.3 million dollars damage at Charleston.
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AUGUST 24TH, 1906 |
A cloudburst deluged Guinea VA with more than nine inches of rain in just forty minutes.
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AUGUST 24TH, 1992 |
Packing 145 to 175 mph winds, Hurricane Andrew comes ashore in Miami and other areas in Dade County, demolishing entire neighborhoods and killing 15 in Florida. In Louisiana, three also perish. Losses total over $25 billion, including 25,000 homes destroyed and 100,000 others damaged, leaving a quarter of a million people temporarily homeless.
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AUGUST 23RD, 1906 |
Thunderstorms deluged Kansas City MO with six inches of rain during the early morning, including nearly three inches in thirty minutes.
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AUGUST 23RD, 1933 |
The Chesapeake-Potomac hurricane moved over Norfolk VA and Washington D.C. A tide seven feet above normal flooded businesses in Norfolk, and damage in Maryland was estimated at seventeen million dollars.
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AUGUST 22ND, 1816 |
The growing season for corn was cut short as damaging frosts were reported from North Carolina to interior New England.
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AUGUST 22ND, 1923 |
The temperature at Anchorage AK reached 82 degrees, a record for August for the location which was later tied on the 2nd in 1978.
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AUGUST 21ST, 1883 |
In Minnesota, 31 die when a tornado touches down at Rochester. Thirty-five years later, in 1918, a twister kills 36 at Tyler MN.
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