NEWS
December 19, 2000 | From Associated Press
Snow and bitter cold blew across the Midwest on Monday, closing schools, delaying flights and disrupting the electoral college vote in Minnesota. A chill also settled over the hard-hit South. As much as 17 inches of snow were forecast for parts of Wisconsin by today, with lighter amounts expected in Minnesota, Illinois and Indiana. The storm was a nightmare for travelers.
NEWS
July 11, 1996 | MIKE CLARY, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
Hundreds of thousands of coastal residents from Florida to North Carolina moved inland Wednesday while forecasters puzzled over the eventual path of Hurricane Bertha, which was slow dancing northward off the Eastern Seaboard. A long-anticipated turn to the north seemed to steer Bertha and its 100-mph winds away from Florida, but forecasters warned that the South Carolina shore, North Carolina's Outer Banks and other barrier islands could be in danger by today or Friday.
NEWS
September 19, 1993 | from Reuters
The astronauts aboard the shuttle Discovery did some weather forecasting Saturday as they beamed down television pictures of Tropical Storm Gert in the Gulf of Mexico and thunderstorms in the Caribbean. "It looks pretty threatening," Discovery mission commander Frank Culbertson said. He showed several minutes of videotape recorded as the shuttle, about 180 miles high, passed over the center of Gert north of the Yucatan Peninsula. "It looks like it's growing.
NEWS
April 2, 1990 | from Associated Press
Strong thunderstorms in parts of Louisiana and Arkansas took the roof off a building, downed trees and power lines and left hail up to 3 inches deep. A cold front advancing through the central United States brought up to 4 inches of wet, heavy snow to eastern North Dakota, winds gusting to 49 m.p.h. in Sioux Falls, S.D., and gusts to 46 m.p.h. in Ord, Columbus and Kearney, Neb. Showers and thunderstorms fell over southern Arkansas, northern Louisiana and northwestern Mississippi.
NEWS
May 26, 1990 | From United Press International
Thunderstorms soaked the nation's midsection Friday, causing flooding in Indiana in the wake of a swarm of tornadoes. "Flooding along the Wabash River in southwest Indiana was described as being immense, with the river two miles wide in western Gibson County at Interstate 64," the National Weather Service reported. In Arkansas, the Ouachita River crested at Camden, at less than 10 feet over the flood stage of 26 feet.
NEWS
May 4, 1991 | From United Press International
Thunderstorms whipped wind and torrential rain through parts of the South on Friday, demolishing part of an airport in weather-beaten Louisiana, while a mid-spring snowstorm blanketed parts of the Dakotas and the West. The skies opened up Friday and drenched parts of Louisiana and neighboring Texas. The National Weather Service reported that Shreveport, La., recorded more than 3 1/2 inches of rain in six hours, while San Antonio got more than two inches during the same period.