This date in Weather History for February 6th

[Skywatch_NC]

February 6th...


1828 - Plum trees blossomed in South Carolina six weeks early as the south was enjoying one of its warmest winters on record. Weather patterns would change however by late March. An inch of ice would form on the St. John's River. Six-Mile Creek in northern Florida would record a temperature of 26 degrees.

1856 - Lake effect snowfalls are becoming less frequent and produce less snowfall by February, but don't tell the folks in Oswego NY that. 6 feet of lake effect snow fell on this date in 1856.

1936 - Iowa suffers through its worst blizzard in modern history.

1967 - Blizzard conditions in New England. 22.5 inches of snow in Warwick NY.

1975 - Boston records 27 inches of snow in the greatest snowstorm in New England's modern history. Traffic was at a standstill for 5 days. Motorists had to abandon their cars and take shelter with private citizens and in churches. The Boston Globe went undelivered for the first time in 106 years.

1978 - "Great Blizzard of '78" was the worst winter storm on record in New England. Massive nor'easter buries major cities with 18 inches of snow at New York City, 16 inches at Philadelphia, 14 inches at Baltimore and 25-30 inches of the white stuff in Boston. Official reading of 27.1 inches recorded at Boston to set their all-time single storm snowfall record. Thousands of cars were stranded on area interstates and eventually covered to their windshields in snow. All travel was banned for a week. Some locations in northern Rhode Island recorded 50 inches of snow. Huge waves pounded the coastline. A 14-foot tide battered Portland ME, the highest on record in the city. Intense low pressure (984 Mb) up against a huge 1052 Mb high pressure system caused very high winds that gusted as high as 92 mph at Chatham MA. The storm killed 75 people and caused over $500 million in damage.

1980 - 20 inches of snow falls at Elizabeth City NC as pasts of Virginia and North Carolina are buried by a strong winter storm. Norfolk VA set their record for biggest snowstorm ever with 12.4 inches.

1987 - Massive flooding in Brownsville Texas is the result of 7 inches of rainfall in just two hours. Flooding in some parts of the city is worse than that during Hurricane Beulah in 1967.

1989 - 41 cities report record lows for the date as an intensely cold airmass poured into the western half of the country on winds of up to 100mph. All-time record lows were established at Ely, NV with -30 degrees and Richfield, UT with -33. February records were established at San Francisco CA with 31 degrees and Reno NV with -15 degrees. Other cold readings: -54 at Logan Canyon UT and -51 at Craig CO.



Eric

[Aslkahuna]

only once since I have been here have we seen freezing precipitation in Sierra Vista-though it does occur further north. On the morning of February 6, 1989 a mixture of Freezing Rain and Drizzle made the morning commute rather tricky for those working on Fort Huachuca. The cold air backdooring from the Plains undercut a warm airmass associated with an impulse coming in from off of Baja hence the freezing precipitation.

Steve
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[Rob-TheStormChaser]

We only got 12" in 78 here.