TODAY  Version 3.7   06/24/94       Copyright 1986, 1994  By Patrick Kincaid

 Today is Wednesday  August 22, 2012.
 This is the 235th day of the year, there are 131 days left.

 On this day...
    In 1816 The growing season for corn was cut short as damaging
            frosts were reported from North Carolina to interior New
            England.
    In 1923 The temperature at Anchorage AK reached 82 degrees,
            a record for August for the location which was later tied
            on the 2nd in 1978.
    In 1987 A cold front lowered temperatures 20 to 40 degrees across
            the north central U.S., and produced severe thunderstorms
            in Ohio and Lower Michigan.  An early morning
            thunderstorm near Sydney MI produced high winds which
            spun a car around 180 degrees.
    In 1988 Afternoon highs of 88 degrees at Astoria OR and 104 at
            Medford OR were records for the date, and the number of
            daily record highs across the nation since the first of
            June topped the 2000 mark.
    In 1989 Evening thunderstorms in the central U.S. produced golf
            ball size hail at May City IA, and wind gusts to 66 mph
            at Balltown IA.  Lightning struck a barn in Fayette
            County IA killing 750 hogs.  Evening thunderstorms
            in Montana produced wind gusts to 70 mph at Havre.
    In 1999 Hurricane Bret, which went from a category 1 to a
            category 4 hurricane in under 12 hours, slammed into
            the south Texas coast near Baffin Bay, with 140 mph
            winds, a 15 foot storm surge, and rainfall totals of
            over 30 inches in some areas. Corpus Christi, north of
            Bret...and Brownsville, south of Bret...missed the full
            force of the storm, but still had heavy rain and wind.


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