Thursday Daily Weather Summary

ONLINE DAILY WEATHER SUMMARY

Thursday, 1 April 1999

THE UPPER AIR
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE EXTREMES ACROSS THE LOWER 48
ALASKAN WEATHER
HAWAIIAN WEATHER
THE FULL MOON, PASSOVER AND EASTER
CONCEPT OF THE DAY
HISTORICAL WEATHER EVENTS

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Today is Passover.

THE UPPER AIR -- The suite of upper air charts for 00Z Thursday indicated ....

YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE EXTREMES ACROSS THE LOWER 48 -- The lowest temperature on Wednesday was XX degrees at XXX. Wednesday's high was XX degrees at XXX.

ALASKAN WEATHER -- ...

The state's lowest overnight temperature as of Wednesday was XX degrees below zero at XXX and the midafternoon high was XX degrees at XXX.

HAWAIIAN WEATHER -- ...

THE UPPER AIR CHARTS -- For a more complete look at features of various upper air charts available on the Online Weather Homepage, see the optional Thursday Supplemental Information.

HISTORICAL WEATHER EVENTS - 1 April

From the files of the Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO and Intellicast

...1786...A heavy snowstorm hit, bringing 12 inches from New Jersey to New Hampshire and prolonging winter into spring. This strong storm caused gale force winds and high tides. Five piers of the Charles Bridge were destroyed at Boston, MA. (Intellicast)
...1807...The famous "1807 spring storm" buried interior New England in snow and caused a great tide along the coast. Danville, VT received 30 inches of new snow, bringing their snow cover amount to 60 inches. (Intellicast)
...1912...A tornado with incredible velocity ripped into downtown Houston, TX breaking the water table and giving the city its first natural waterspout. (The Weather Channel)
...1923...Residents in the eastern U.S. awoke on "April Fool's Day" to bitterly cold temperatures. The mercury plunged to -34 degrees at Bergland, MI and to 16 degrees in Georgia. (David Ludlum)
...1987...Forty-five cities across the southeastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date. Lows of 37 degrees at Apalachicola, FL, 34 degrees at Jacksonville, FL, 30 degrees at Macon, GA, and 22 degrees at Knoxville, TN, were records for April. (The National Weather Summary)
A tornado touched down briefly during a snow squall on the south shore of White Fish Bay (six miles northwest of Bay Mills, MI). A mobile home was unroofed and insulation was sucked from its walls. (The Weather Channel)
...1988...A powerful spring storm produced 34 inches of snow at Rye, CO, 22 inches at Timpas, OK, 19 inches at Sharon Springs, KS, and up to 35 inches in New Mexico. Severe thunderstorms associated with the same storm spawned a tornado which caused 2.5 million dollars damage at East Mountain, TX. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1989...Up to six inches of snow blanketed the Adirondacks of eastern New York State and the Saint Lawrence Valley of Vermont. Up to a foot of snow blanketed the Colorado Rockies. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
...1990...Thunderstorms produced severe weather in Texas, from southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana to southern Georgia, and from northern South Carolina to the Upper Ohio Valley during the day and evening. Thunderstorms spawned a tornado at Evergreen, AL, and there were more than eighty reports of large hail and damaging winds. Thunderstorms produced baseball size hail north of Bastrop, LA, and produced damaging winds which injured one person west of Meridian, MS. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)