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Weather History: November 8: Record Heat, Cold, Snow, Wind, Severe Storms, Tornadoes & Flooding
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Listed are Meteorological events that happened on November 8th:
1870
Professor Increase A. Lapham believed that warnings of deadly storms on the Great Lakes could be derived from telegraphed weather observations. A bill was introduced and signed into law to establish a national telegraphic weather service. The Signal Corps began taking observations of November 1, 1870. On this date, Lapham would issue the first storm warning, a cautionary forecast for the Great Lakes.
1876
Two days of rain dumped 4.9 inches on Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada. The rail line near Lawrence Station was washed out causing the derailment of the morning St. John-Fredericton run.
1914
It finally rained on this date in Bagdad, CA breaking an incredible rain-free streak of 767 days, the U.S. record.
1943
An early season snowstorm raged across eastern South Dakota and Minnesota into northern Wisconsin. The storm produced 22 inches at Fairbult and Marshall, MN, 20 inches at Redwood Falls, MN, and 10.1 inches at Minneapolis, MN. Drifts 15 feet high were reported in Cottonwood County, Minnesota. The storm produced up to 2 feet of snow in South Dakota smothering a million Thanksgiving day turkeys.
1953
Residents of New York City suffered through 10 days of smog resulting in 200 deaths.
1985
Indian summer came to an abrupt end when a winter storm dumped 10 to 18 inches of snow along the Front Range Foothills in Colorado and 6 to 10 inches across Denver causing flight delays up to 3 hours and snarling traffic. 7.3 inches fell at the airport. The temperature at Denver plunged from a high off 66 on this date to a low of 13 the next morning after the passage of a strong cold front. On the 10th, the high temperature at Denver only climbed to 19, setting a record low maximum. Snow also fell across the upper Midwest with 4 to 8 inches common across parts of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. Hokah, MN, Ontario, WI and Waukon, IA reported 6 inches of snow.
1986
A new Utah state record for the strongest wind gust was established at 6:16 am MST, when a wind gust of 124 mph was recorded on 11,000 foot high Hidden Peak in the Snowbird area.
North Dakota was blasted by a blizzard which was, for many parts of the state, the worst November blizzard on record. One to two feet of snow fell with the highest amount reported at Devil's Lake with 25 inches. Winds gusted as high as 70 mph at many locations.
1987
Thunderstorms over Texas produced locally heavy rains in the Hill Country, with 3.50 inches reported at Lakeway, and 3.72 inches reported at Anderson Mill. Thunderstorms over Louisiana produced hail an inch in diameter at Clay and at Provencial. Blustery northwest winds, ushering cold air into western Kansas and into northwest Texas, gusted to 46 mph at Hill City, KS.
1988
Fair weather prevailed across much of the nation for Election Day. Midland, TX equaled their record for November with an afternoon high of 89°, and the record high of 87° at Roswell, NM was their fifth in 8 days.
1989
Afternoon and evening thunderstorms developing along and ahead of a cold front produced severe weather from northern Louisiana into central Georgia. Thunderstorms spawned three tornadoes, and there were 64 reports of large hail or damaging winds. A late afternoon thunderstorm in central Georgia spawned a tornado which killed one person and injured 8 others at Pineview. Late afternoon thunderstorms in central Mississippi produced baseball size hail around Jackson, and wind gusts to 70 mph at Walnut Grove.
1991
The first week in November in Iowa was extremely cold. The average temperature over the state for the week was 18.3°, which is 24.7° below normal. This was easily the coldest first week of November in 100 years of record.
1992
A thunderstorm occurred at St. Paul Island off the coast of Alaska in the Bering Sea. The thunderstorm is extremely rare at this location. The last thunderstorm observed at this location was over 40 years ago on 11/21/1951.
1999
Numerous record high temperatures fell across the Midwest as Indian Summer weather was felt across the region. Many locations set new high temperature records for the month of November, not just for the date, including Pierre, SD: 87°, Valentine, NE: 86°, Elkader, IA: 79°, Decorah, IA: 78°, Oelwein, IA: 78°, Austin, MN: 77°, Lynxville, WI: 75° and Jump River, WI: 71°. Other records included 86° in Huron, SD and 82° in Omaha, NE. Kennebec, SD reached 89° breaking the all time record for the states warmest November high temperature ever but was also the high temperature in the country.
The low temperature at Billings, MT was 51°, and the high was 73°; this was their 3rd straight day with a high above 70°, a November record
2001
A warm front moved through into central Wisconsin. To the south of this warm front, strong southwest winds brought unseasonably warm air into the region. Temperatures across northeast Iowa, southeast Minnesota, and southwest Wisconsin climbed into the 70s. Meanwhile, temperatures in central Wisconsin remained in the upper 40s. Oelwein, IA hit 79°, their warmest November temperature on record.
A powerful storm with strong winds and major storm surge in the North Sea forced Britain and the Netherlands to activate flood defenses. Netherland authorities closed the new Maeslant Barrier, which protects the mouth of Europe's largest port, for the first time under storm conditions since its construction in 1997. The Thames River barrier, downstream from London, was also closed.
2006
Denver, CO climbed to 80°. This was their highest November temperature since records began in 1872 and the highest temperature for so late in the season. Chadron, NE also hit 80°, their latest 80 degree reading for so late in the season.
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