Frightful Halloween Weather
By Quincy Vagell on October 28, 2011, 12:00am
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The weather we had this past October was particularly frightening, but let's take a look at the wildest weather on October 31st in history, from around the world:
1846:
Intense snowfall of up to five feet slammed the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Some snow drifts reached 40 feet and many pioneers were trapped, leading to dozens of deaths.
1887:
North Carolina rarely sees snow in the fall, but on this date back, the region saw its only October snow on record.
1899:
A hurricane made landfall in the Carolinas and proceeded to move northward. It moved into the mid-Atlantic region, with peak winds of 84 mph in Virginia and 82 mph in Delaware.
1925:
A bitter cold blast of Arctic air slammed the northeastern quarter of the United States. Central Park tied a record low, bottoming out at 29 degrees.
1950:
Remarkably warm weather prevailed across the nations heartland. Minneapolis, MN soared to 83 degrees, the warmest temperatures on record for so late int he season.
1963:
Philadelphia had been dry as a bone before this date, as they were in the midst of a 28-day streak of no precipitation. This ended on the 31st of October, but was the longest dry streak on record.
1965:
Intense rainfall drenched Florida, as Fort Lauderdale recorded 13.81 inches of rainfall. This made October 1965 the wettest month on record for them, with 42.43 inches of precipitation.
1984:
A tornado just south of Topeka, KS caused what are believed to be the only known aircraft casualties caused by a tornado.
1991:
The "perfect storm" was raging just off the northeastern United States coast. A low pressure system literally ate a hurricane, drifted back towards the mid-Atlantic coast and eventually became it's own hurricane before it pulled away. The storm brought some of the worst coastal flooding in decades from North Carolina to Maine.
2000:
An F2 tornado ripped apart Oconto, NE, destroying numerous homes and businesses. Thankfully, there were no deaths caused by the twister.
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