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Cyclone Domoina 1984
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Cyclone Domoina (also spelt Demoina) was a tropical cyclone that hit southern Africa in early 1984, causing some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region. Read more
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Great Blizzard of 1978
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The Great Blizzard of 1978 was a historic blizzard which struck the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes from January 25-27, 1978. The 28.28 inches (958 millibars) barometric pressure measurement recorded in Cleveland, Ohio was the lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the mainland...
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The Burns' Day Storm. (1990)
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The Burns' Day Storm occurred on 25-26 January, 1990, over north-western Europe, and is one of the strongest storms on record. This storm has received different names as there is no official list of such events in Europe. It is also known as Daria. Starting on the birthday of Scottish poet Robert Burn...
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Cyclone Klaus, 2009
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Klaus, was a European windstorm or cyclone which made landfall over large parts of central and southern France, Spain and parts of Italy in January 2009. Read more
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Miami snowfall
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Miami has never recorded an accumulation of snow, and has only once recorded snow flurries, on January 19, 1977. Read more
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Kyrill (storm) 2007
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Kyrill was the name given to a low pressure area that evolved into an unusually violent European windstorm, forming an extratropical cyclone with hurricane-strength winds. It formed over Newfoundland on 15 January 2007 and moved across the Atlantic Ocean reaching Ireland and Great Britain by th...
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Braer Storm
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The Braer Storm of January 1993 is the most intense extratropical cyclone on record for the northern Atlantic ocean. Developing as a weak frontal wave on January 8, 1993, the system moved rapidly northeast developing at a moderate pace. The combination of the absorption of a second low-pressure ar...
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North American ice storm of 1998
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The North American ice storm of 1998 (also known as Great Ice Storm of 1998 and Great Ice Storm '98) was a massive combination of five smaller successive ice storms which combined to strike a relatively narrow swath of land from eastern Ontario to southern Quebec to Nova Scotia in Canada, and borderin...
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Tropical Cyclone Dumile (07S)
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Tropical Cyclone Dumile is forecast to make landfall in Reunion probability for CAT 1 or above is 45% in about 16 hours probability for TS is 90% within 4 hours The Tropical Cyclone is located near 17.9°S, 55.0°E
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Tay Bridge disaster
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The Tay Bridge disaster occurred on 28 December 1879, when the first Tay Rail Bridge, which crossed the Firth of Tay between Dundee and Wormit in Scotland, collapsed during a violent storm while a train was passing over it. The bridge was designed by the noted railway engineer Sir Thomas Bouch, using...
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Cyclone Tracy
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Cyclone Tracy was a tropical cyclone that devastated the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day, 1974. It is the most compact cyclone or equivalent-strength hurricane on record in the Australian basin, with gale-force winds extending only 48 kilomet...
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Highest barometric pressure
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The highest barometric pressure ever recorded on Earth was 1,085.7 hectopascals (32.06 inHg) measured in Tonsontsengel, Mongolia on 19 December 2001. The lowest non-tornadic atmospheric pressure ever measured was 870 hPa (25.69 inches), set on 12 October 1979, during Typhoon Tip in the wester...
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Tropical Cyclone Evan (04P)
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Tropical Cyclone Evan has made landfall in Apia (13.8 S, 171.7 W) probability for CAT 1 or above is 100% currently probability for TS is 100% currently Asau (13.4 S, 172.5 W) probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 30 hours probability for TS is 70% in about 3...
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St. Lucia's flood , 1287
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St. Lucia's flood (Sint-Luciavloed) was a storm tide that affected the Netherlands and Northern Germany on December 14, 1287 (the day after St. Lucia Day) when a dike broke during a storm, killing approximately 50,000 to 80,000 people in the fifth largest flood in recorded history. Read more
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The Great Smog of '52
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The Great Smog of '52 or Big Smoke was a severe air pollution event that affected London, England, during December 1952. On 4 December 1952, an anticyclone settled over a windless London, causing a temperature inversion with cold, stagnant air trapped under a layer (or "lid") of warm air...
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