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Welcome to The Weather Notebook for Wednesday, September 27, 2006.

The Weather Notebook is a historical database of past significant weather
events. It includes a history of major tornadoes, blizzards, hurricanes, and
everything and anything else related to weather. We hope you enjoy it, and
if you know of a significant weather event we haven't included, please let
us know.

On this day in ..

* 1906 - Major hurricane Pensacola/Mobile was strongest hurricane to
strike the Pensacola area since the 1736 storm.
* 1936 - 21.3 inches of snow falls at Denver CO during a 60 hour storm.
* 1955 - Winds are estimated to 200 mph in Hurricane Janet in the
Caribbean. The storm would make landfall the next day with winds of 175 mph,
killing 500 and doing $40 million in damage.
* 1958 - Hurricane Helene passes just off the North Carolina coast.
Wilmington has wind gust to 135 mph and 8.9 inches of rain. Cape Fear had
sustained winds to 125 mph with gusts to 155 mph. Eye stayed 20 miles
offshore, so no major tidal flooding resulted. Damage $11 million.
* 1985 - Hurricane Gloria, the most hyped hurricane ever, passed over
North Carolina's Outer Banks and then sped northeast to make landfall again
on Fire Island and cross the Connecticut coastline near Bridgeport. Winds
gusted to 115 mph on Long Island, 109 at Chatham MA and 100 at the Blue Hill
Observatory in Milton MA. $1 billion in damage, 8 fatalities. Some areas of
Connecticut without power for up to 2 weeks.
* 1985 - Reord early season snowstorm in the central high plains. 19
inches along parts of the front range of the Colorado Rockies and up to a
foot of snow across parts of the plains.
* 1987 - Tons of mud and rock were loosened by a week of heavy rain on
Sugar Loaf Mountain near Medellin, Colombia. Some 60 homes were in the path
of the ensuing mud slide, in which at least 183 people died.

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