From "This Day in National/World Weather History ..." at ABR  http://www.crh.noaa.gov/abr/scripts/wxhistory.php
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/abr/scripts/wxhistory.php?data=feb01
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1 March 1980 → An unusually large Florida tornado, an F3, was at times more than 500 yards wide. It struck near Fort Lauderdale and traveled 7 miles. The tornado killed one person and caused $6 million in damage.
1 March 1983 → An F2 tornado stayed on the ground for three and a half miles as it moved through south central Los Angeles, CA. Fifty buildings were damaged and 30 people were injured, mostly by flying glass.
1 March 2003 → Officials in charge of the Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race in Alaska were forced to change the route of their famous race because of unusually warm conditions and a lack of snow.
1 March 2007 → The first tornado of a large outbreak struck Enterprise, AL around 1pm. Eight students died when the EF-4 struck the town's high school, and there was an additional fatality as the tornado tore through the city.   http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ffc/?n=tor3107 
 http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tae/?n=event-20070301
1 March 1910: The worst avalanche in US history in terms of lives lost, occurred Wellington, Washington. Heavy snow occurred from February 26 through the 28th, which blocked the rail lines. Weather conditions turned on the 28th with a thunderstorm occurring over the area. Just after 1 am on March 1st, a ten to 14 foot high mass of snow broke free from the mountain side and pushed the trains 150 feet down into the Tye River gorge. In all, 96 people were killed from this avalanche. Click HERE for more information from the History Channel.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/trains-buried-by-avalanche
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%201%2C%201910%20Wellington%20Avalanche%202.jpg
Rescuers digging for victims from the avalanche. The image is courtesy from the Seattle Times.
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/1910-stevens-pass-avalanche-still-deadliest-in-us-history/
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%201%2C%201910%20Wellington%20Avalanche.jpg
The map above is courtesy from the Iron Goat Trail website. The black oval is where the avalanche disaster occurred.
http://www.irongoat.org/index.html
1 March 2006: The day's high temperature of 93 degrees at the Dallas/Fort Wort Airport in Texas broke a 107-year-old record. Other hot north Texas cities included Wichita Falls with 96 degrees and Fort Worth Meacham Airport with 90 degrees.
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Have to add the "Green Bay's All-Time Snowfall Record of 29.0 Inches Set on March 1-2, 1888" from 
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=grb&storyid=106721&source=0
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2 March 1982 → Half of Tonga in the South Pacific was rendered homeless by Tropical Cyclone Isaac after winds of 112 mph caused heavy damage.
2 March 2012 → An EF4 tornado struck near Crittenden, KY and resulted in four fatalities. It was part of a much larger tornado outbreak across the southeast United States that was the first billion dollar weather disaster of 2012.
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/iln/events/20120302/crittenden_piner.php
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/archive/event.php?date=20120302
2 March 1927: Raleigh, North Carolina was buried under 17.8 inches of snow in 24 hours, a record for that location until 2000. On January 25, 2000, Raleigh saw 17.9 inches of snow in 24 hours.
2 March 1988: Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the south central U.S. A tornado in Baton Rouge, Louisiana injured two persons, and another tornado caused five million dollars damage at the airport in Lafayette, Louisiana.
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%202%2C%201988%20Lafayette%20Tornado.jpg
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%203%2C%201966%20Jackson%20MS%20Tornado%20Track.JPG
The barograph trace from the airport at Lafayette, Louisiana shows an instantaneous pressure drop of 0.24 inches that was recorded as a tornado passed. An 83 mph wind gust was also observed. The tornado, F1 in intensity, traveled only 0.8 miles. The image is courtesy from Storm Data.
2 March 1990: Twenty two ships were trapped by ice in the worst ice jam in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 10 years. The ice was 23 feet thick.
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3 March 1876 → The Kentucky Meat Shower. Around 2pm, chunks of fresh, red meat fell from the sky for several minutes onto Olympia Springs in Bath County. The chunks of meat were 3 to 4 inches square. Two local men tasted it and figured it to be mutton or venison. Scientific analysis showed it to be lung tissue, muscle tissue, and cartilage, likely from a horse. It was posited that a flock of buzzards had just eaten a dead horse nearby, and then disgorged their meal onto unsuspecting Olympia Springs. The day was otherwise pleasant with blue skies, a light breeze, and temperatures in the 40s.
3 March 1966 → Jackson, MS was heavily damaged by a half-mile wide F5 tornado. Of the total death toll of 57, twelve people were killed when the Candlestick Shopping Center was leveled to the ground.  http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jan/?n=1966_03_03_candlestick_park_tor
3 March 1989 → A massive dust storm lowered visibility to zero along I-10 in Cochise County, AZ. Chain-reaction accidents involved 25 cars. Two motorists were killed. 
3 March 1896: The temperature in downtown San Francisco, California fell to 33 degrees, which was the lowest ever for the city in March. 
3 March 1966: An F5 tornado hit Jackson, Mississippi killing 54 persons. Click HERE for more information from the NWS Office in Jackson, Mississippi.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jan/?n=1966_03_03_candlestick_park_tor
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The tornado track above is courtesy of the NWS Office in Jackson, Mississippi.
3 March 1991: A major ice storm coated parts of central and northwestern New York State with up to two inches of ice. Damage was totaled at $375 million dollars. It was the most costly natural disaster ever in the state up until that time. Nearly half a million people were without power at the height of the storm and many would not see their power restored until the 16th.
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4 March 1841 → President William Henry Harrison delivered a 100-minute inaugural address in near-freezing temperatures while refusing to wear a coat or hat. Though probably not directly related to the weather on Inauguration Day, he soon became ill, possibly from pneumonia, and died on April 4, only 30 days into his presidency. http://www.erh.noaa.gov/lwx/Historic_Events/Inauguration/Inauguration.html
4 March 1899 → The world's highest recorded storm surge occurred at Bathurst Bay, Queensland, Australia when Tropical Cyclone Mahina created a surge 42 feet deep. The storm also caused the largest death toll of any natural disaster in Australian history, with 400 casualties.
4 March 1909 → The Inauguration ceremony of President William H. Taft was forced indoors due to a blizzard that dropped 10 inches of snow on the Capital. Strong winds toppled trees and telephone poles. All activity was brought to a standstill. It took 6,000 men and 500 wagons to clear 58,000 tons of snow and slush from the parade route. Just after the swearing-in, the snow tapered off.
4 March 1873: The inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant remains Washington, DC's, record cold March day. The low was 4 degrees, and by noon with sunshine, the temperature was 16 degrees. Wind chills were around 30 degrees below zero. The 40 mph winds made his inaugural address inaudible to most on the platform with him.
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%204%2C%201873%20Ulysses%20S%20Grant%20Inauguation.jpg
The image above is courtesy from the Library of Congress.  https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/pi025.html
4 March 1899: Cyclone Mahina, aka "The Bathurst Bay Hurricane" in Australia was credited with having produced the highest storm surge on record in the world. The cyclone, with an estimated central pressure of 911 millibars or 26.90 inches of mercury caused a 42.6 foot surge when it came ashore on the coast of northern Australia. The storm killed as many as 400 people and is currently Australia's deadliest cyclone.
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%205%2C%201899%20Charting%20Cyclone%20Mahina.jpg
This map, taken from the book 'The Pearling Disaster, 1899: A Memorial', shows how Mahina intensified into a category 5 cyclone as it head towards the Queensland coast, where it met Monsoonal Disturbance Nachon.
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%205%2C%201899%20Cyclone%20Mahina.jpg
The image of the Memorial Stone at Cape Melville is courtesy from the book 'The Pearling Disaster, 1899: A Memorial'. Click HERE for the book from the National Library of Australia.  http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview/?pi=nla.aus-f13959
4 March 1983: Brownsville, Texas recorded a high of 100 degrees, the earliest the city has ever hit the century mark. 
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5 March 1821 → Presidential inauguration ceremony of James Monroe: Snow began on the evening of the 3rd making Washington snowbound by the afternoon of Sunday the 4th. Snow continued through Inauguration Day today forcing Monroe to take his oath of office in the House Chambers. http://www.erh.noaa.gov/lwx/Historic_Events/Inauguration/Inauguration.html
5 March 1960 → On March 3-5, 1960, eastern Massachusetts received their greatest March snowstorm. The storm produced 24-hour snowfall totals of 27.2 inches at Blue Hill Observatory, 17.7 inches at Worcester, and 16.6 inches at Boston. Winds gusted to 70 mph.
5 March 1963 → A plane carrying Patsy Cline, her manager (who was the pilot), and two other country singers flew into severe thunderstorms and crashed into the woods near Camden, TN. All aboard were killed. Patsy Cline was 30 years old at the time of her death.
5 March 2000 → A huge wildfire threatened areas around Miami, FL, during a severe drought. 
5 March 1894: The low temperature of 36 degrees at San Diego, California on this day was their lowest on record for March.
5 March 1959: Near blizzard conditions occurred over northern and central Oklahoma. Up to seven inches of snow fell, and winds up to 50 mph created snow drifts 4 to 8 feet deep. In Edmond, a bus slid off the road into a ditch and overturned, injuring 16 people. 
5 March 1966: A plane crashes near Mount Fuji in Japan after encountering severe turbulence. The pilot veered a few miles off course to give the passengers a better view of Mount Fuji when it tremendous wind gusts. All 124 people on board the aircraft were killed.
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%205%2C%201966%20Mount%20Fiji%20Plane%20Crash.jpg
The image above shows the crash of the Boeing 707. This image is courtesy of the BBC.com 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/5/newsid_2515000/2515321.stm
5 March 1972: Palm Springs, California recorded a high of 100 degrees, the earliest the city has ever hit the century mark. 
5 March 1989: A F2 tornado killed one person and injured six others in Heard County, Georgia. A stronger, F3 tornado injured 23 persons and caused more than $5 million dollars damage around Grantville, Georgia.
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%205%2C%201989%20Georgia%20Tornado%20Tracks.jpg
The information above is courtesy from Storm Data.
5 March 2007: The morning temperature dropped to 51 degrees below zero at Key Lake, Saskatchewan Canada.
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6 March 1902 → In the eight days ending today, Kukaiau Hamakua, HI received 82 inches of rain.
6 March 1916 → Over five days, Morden, Manitoba received 48 inches of snow.
6 March 1977 → The highest recorded wind gust in the United Kingdom was 144 mph at the Cairngorm Weather Station in Scotland.
6 March 1962: The strongest nor'easter of this century struck the Mid-Atlantic Region on March 5-9, 1962. It is known as the "Ash Wednesday Storm" and caused over $200 million (1962 dollars) in property damage and major coastal erosion from North Carolina to Long Island, New York. In New Jersey alone, it was estimated to have destroyed or greatly damaged 45,000 homes. The Red Cross recorded that the storm killed 40 people. It hit during "Spring Tide." When the sun and moon are in phase, they produce a higher than normal astronomical tide. Water reached nine feet at Norfolk (flooding begins around five feet). Houses were toppled into the ocean and boardwalks were broken and twisted. The islands of Chincoteague and Assateague, Maryland were completely underwater. Ocean City, Maryland sustained major damage especially to the south end of the island. Winds up to 70 mph built 40-foot waves at sea. Heavy snow fell in the Appalachian Mountains. Big Meadows, southeast of Luray, recorded Virginia's greatest 24-hour snowfall with 33 inches and the greatest single storm snowfall with 42 inches. (Luray, Virginia reported 33.5 inches on March 2-3, 1994 making this later snow their maximum 24-hour snowfall total.) Roads were blocked and electrical service was out for several days. Washington and Baltimore fell into the mixed precipitation zone. The Ash Wednesday storm is noteworthy for producing devastating tidal flooding along the Atlantic Coast as well as record snows and the interior of a Virginia. The extremely high tides and massive waves caused tremendous damage -worst in many of the hurricanes that have hit the region. Along the Atlantic Coast tide ran for 2 to 6 ft. above normal with 20 to 40 ft. waves crashing ashore. National Airport received only 4 inches of snow with a liquid equivalent of 1.33 inches. However, close-in suburbs, such as Silver Spring, Maryland and Falls Church, Virginia and received 11 inches of snow. Outlying areas such as Rockville, Maryland received 19 inches of snow and Leesburg, Virginia received 20 inches of snow. Other snow totals included 15 inches at Richmond; 23 inches at Culpeper; 26 inches at Charlottesville; 32 inches at Winchester; and 35 inches at Fort Royal, Virginia and Big Meadows on the Skyline Drive top the list with 42 inches of snow.  Click HERE for more information from the Washington Post.  
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/ash-wednesday-storm-of-1962-50-year-anniversary/2012/03/06/gIQAkSY4uR_blog.html
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%206%2C%201962%20Ash%20Wednesday%20Storm.jpg
The Henlopen Hotel in Rehoboth Beach after the 1962 Ash Wednesday storm. The image is courtesy of the Delaware Public Archives. Click HERE for more information.  http://archives.delaware.gov/stormof1962/index.shtml
6 March 2014: The Great Lakes saw some of their worst ice cover in nearly four decades because of a frigid winter with months of below-freezing temperatures in large sections of the northern United States, the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration said. As of March 6, 2014, 92.2 percent of the five lakes were under ice, breaking a record set in 1973 but still short of the 94.7 percent set in 1979, the federal agency said.  
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%206%2C%202014%20Great%20Lakes%20Frozen%20over.jpg
This image from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), via GLERL, shows a satellite view of the Great Lakes on March 8.
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7 March 1717 → The Great Snow, a composite of four winter storms to hit the eastern U.S. over nine days, finally came to an end. Snow depths averaged 60 inches following the storms. Up to four feet of snow fell around Boston, and snow drifts 25 feet high were reported around Dorchester, MA.
7 March 1932 → A powerful low pressure system set numerous low pressure records from Virginia to New England. The barometer dropped to 28.20 inches at Block Island, RI.
7 March 1962 → A powerful nor'easter lingered just off the mid-Atlantic coast for three days, resulting in severe damage along the ocean shore of the Delmarva Peninsula. Forty people were killed, and the few homesteads that were on the outer islands were destroyed.
7 March 1717: A series of snowstorms between February 27 and March 7 blanketed the New England colonies with five or more feet of snow. Click HERE for more information from the New England Historical Society.  http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/great-snow-of-1717/
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%207%2C%201717%20Deep%20Snow.jpg
The image above is courtesy of the New England Historical Society.
7 March 1970: Last near total eclipse of the sun in Washington, DC in this 20th century. Sun was 95% eclipsed.
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%207%2C%201970%20Total%20Eclipse.jpg
The image of the total solar eclipse path is courtesy of NASA.  http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle1951/SE1970Mar07Tgoogle.html
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%207%2C%201970%20Total%20Eclipse%202.jpg
The solar eclipse above is courtesy of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory.  https://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im0397.html
7 March 1997: The worst was finally over for states hit hard by the flooding Ohio River. The river crested on the 6th at Louisville, Kentucky, at 15 feet above flood stage, after topping out at nearly 13 feet at Cincinnati, Ohio and more than 7 feet at Huntington, West Virginia.
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8 March 1717 → On Fishers Island in Long Island Sound, 1200 sheep were discovered to have been buried under a snow drift for four weeks. When finally uncovered, one hundred sheep were still alive.
8 March 1909 → An F4 tornado on the ground for 15 miles nearly obliterated Brinkley, AR. Within the city limits over 800 buildings were destroyed and several entire families were killed. Along the entire path nearly 3,000 buildings, including 1,550 homes, were damaged or destroyed and 49 people lost their lives (42 in Brinkley alone).
8 March 1984 → A thunder snowstorm produced high winds, vivid lightning, and up to seven inches of snow in the northern suburbs of Washington D.C.
8 March 1909: The town of Brinkley, Arkansas was struck by an estimated F4 tornado which killed 49 persons and caused 600,000 dollars damage. The tornado, which was two-thirds of a mile wide, destroyed 860 buildings. Entire families were killed as houses were completely swept away by the tornado.
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%208%2C%201909%20Brinkley%2C%20Arkansas%20Tornado.jpg
The image above is Brinkley, Arkansas after the tornado. The image is courtesy of GenDisasters.com  http://www3.gendisasters.com/arkansas/5720/brinkley-ar-tornado-amp-fire-mar-1909
8 March 1972: A wind gust of 207 mph was recorded at the Thule Air Force Base in Greenland. Winds were sustained at over 146 mph for three hours during the storm.
8 March 1989: While arctic cold gripped the northeastern U.S., unseasonably warm weather prevailed across the southwestern states. Albany, New York reported a record low of 2 degrees below zero. Tucson, Arizona reported a record high of 90 degrees.
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9 March 1911 → Puerto Rico recorded its coldest temperature ever when the mercury fell to 40 degrees in Aibonito.
9 March 1956 → 367 inches of snow, more than 30 feet, was measured on the ground at the Rainier Paradise Ranger Station in Washington. The snow depth was a state record and the second highest total of record for the continental U.S. 
9 March 1891: On this date through the 13th, a blizzard struck southern England and Wales with gale force winds. 220 people were killed; 65 ships foundered in the English Channel and 6,000 sheep perished. Countless trees were uprooted and trains buried. Up to a foot of snow and snowdrifts of 11.5 feet were reported at Dulwich, London, Torquay, Sidmouth and Dartmouth. Click HERE for more information from the National Maritime Museum.  http://www.nmmc.co.uk/index.php?/collections/featured_pictures/the_great_blizzard_of_1891
9 March 1956: A whopping 367 inches of snow was measured on the ground at the Rainier Paradise Ranger Station in Washington. The snow depth was a state record and the second highest total of record for the continental U.S.
9 March 1957: An earthquake measuring a magnitude 8.6 struck the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. A Pacific-wide tsunami was generated that caused $5 million dollars of damage in Hawaii, but fortunately, no lives were lost. Hardest hit was the island of Kauai, where houses were damaged and roads washed away. Waves reached 52.5 feet high at Haena, HI.
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%209%2C%201957%20Aleutian%20Tsunami.jpg
This photo from the National Geophysical Data Center at Laie Point on the Island of Oahu shows conditions prior to the tsunami.
http://earthweb.ess.washington.edu/tsunami/general/historic/images/64800111.jpg
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%209%2C%201957%20Aleutian%20Tsunami%202.jpg
Conditions at Laie Point on the Island of Oahu during the arrival of the tsunami. The image is from the National Geophysical Data Center.
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10 March 1884 → John Park Finley created the first tornado forecast.
10 March 1891 → The Great Blizzard struck southern England and Wales March 9 through 13. 220 people were reported dead and 65 ships floundered in the English Channel. 6000 sheep perished. Countless trees were uprooted and trains were buried in snow. Up to a foot of snow and snowdrifts of 11.5 feet high were recorded at London and Dartmouth.
10 March 1884: John Park Finley issued the first experimental tornado prediction. Finley had studied the atmospheric parameters that were present during previous tornadoes. Many of these same criteria are still used by operational forecasters today. But use of tornado forecasts would be banned just a few years later, and would remain banned until 1952.
10 March 1986: Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes hit Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. A total of 19 tornadoes occurred. Three of the tornadoes in Indiana reached F3 intensity. A densely populated subdivision of southeast Lexington, Kentucky was heavily damaged by a tornado. Twenty people were injured and 900 homes were damaged or demolished. A very strong thunderstorm downburst hit the Cincinnati area. At the Greater Cincinnati Airport, windows were blown out of the control tower, injuring the six controllers on duty. At Newport, Kentucky, 120 houses were destroyed from winds estimated from 100 to 140 mph. Click HERE for more information about the Lexington, Kentucky tornado from the NWS Office in Louisville.  http://www.weather.gov/lmk/march_10_1986_lexington_tornado
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%2010%2C%201986%20Lexington%20Tornado.jpg
The image above is Ak-Sar-Ben Park after the tornado. This image is courtesy of the Lexington Herald Leader.
10 March 1989: Thirty-four cities in the central and southwestern U.S. reported new record high temperatures for the date. The high of 85 degrees at Hanksville, Utah was a record for March, and Pueblo, Colorado equaled their March record of 86 degrees. Hill City, Kansas warmed from a morning low of 30 degrees to an afternoon high of 89 degrees. 
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11 March 1888 → An unexpected blizzard dumped 4 feet of snow from New York to New England killing 400 people on the 11th and 12th. It was known as the "White Hurricane."   http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/700s/wea00977.jpg
11 March 1911 → The deepest snow cover ever measured in the U.S. was 451 inches in Tamarack, CA.
11 March 1923 → An F5 tornado struck a part of Pinson, TN, killing 20 people.
11 March 1888: The Great Blizzard of 1888 paralyzed the east coast from the Chesapeake Bay to Maine on March 11 through the 14th. The blizzard dumped as much as 55 inches of snow in some areas and snow drifts of 30 to 40 feet were reported. An estimated 400 people died from this blizzard. Click HERE for more information from the History Channel. Click HERE for additional information from the National Centers for Environmental Information (section 14). http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/great-blizzard-of-88-hits-east-coast
http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/blizzard/blizz.txt
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%2011%2C%201888%20New%20York%20Blizzard.jpg
The image above is New York City during the blizzard. This image is courtesy of the Library of Congress.  http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2007678801/ Additional images are available from the Connecticut State Library.
http://cslib.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/p15019coll17
11 March 1897: The coldest March reading at Medicine Hat, Alberta Canada occurred as the temperature dropped to 38 degrees below zero. 
11 March 1911: Tamarack, California reported 451 inches of snow on the ground, a record for the U.S. 
11 March 1990: Forty-four cities in the central and eastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. Record highs included 71 degrees at Dickinson and Williston, North Dakota and 84 degrees at Lynchburg Virginia, Charleston, and Huntington West Virginia. Augusta, Georgia and Columbia, South Carolina tied for honors as the hot spot in the nation with record highs of 88 degrees. 
From John Stremikis on 11 March 2017:
on local Public Radio :
Today marks the 129th anniversary of “The Blizzard of ’88,” one of the worst in American history. Over 55 inches of snow struck the northeast coast of the United States, killing around 400 people. At the time, nearly a quarter of all Americans lived in the affected area. The day before the storm, the temperature had been a balmy 50 degrees. By the next morning, however, the world was in a whiteout, with winds reaching up to 85 mph.
The most heavily affected city, perhaps, was New York. All existing train, water, phone, and gas lines were above ground, frozen, and in some cases burst — in fact, the realization that this configuration was a problem is what led to the underground systems we have today. But despite the catastrophe unfolding around them, many New Yorkers carried on as usual. Rather than be deterred by a snowfall that only reached the second story of their buildings, some made the trek to their usual above-ground train lines to go to work. When they eventually became trapped on those train lines, other entrepreneurial locals offered to pass them a rescue ladder for a small fee. Mark Twain and P.T. Barnum were both in the city, stranded but in good spirits. Some locals tried to cross the frozen East River spanning between Manhattan and Queens only to be stranded on free-floating floes when the ice broke.
the link in this article leads to:
https://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/the-great-blizzard-of-1888-americas-greatest-snow-disaster
A great endorsement/reference from Chris Burt. 
great coverage of the “Childrens Blizzard”, too!
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12 March 1993 → The "Storm of the Century" roared to life over the Gulf of Mexico. The storm would become the costliest non-tropical storm in U.S. history up to that time. As the storm hit Florida a tornado struck Chiefland killing three people and injuring ten.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mlb/?n=march1993
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/images/tbw/paig/PresAmTornadoes19930313.pdf
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tlh/?n=march1993_superstorm
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/misc/AbtDerechos/casepages/mar12-131993page.htm
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tbw/?n=93storm
12 March 2006 → 49 tornadoes swarmed across the Midwest, with 38 of them in Missouri. The strongest was an F4 that destroyed homes near Paris, MO. An F3 that paralleled I-40 near Springfield, MO caused $50,000,000 damage.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lsx/?n=march12tornadoes
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lsx/?n=03_11_06_tornadooutbreak
1928: The St. Frances dam near Santa Paula, California burst before midnight, killing 450 people as a flood tide of 138,000 acres of water rushed down the San Francisquito Canyon. The dam was designed and built between 1924 and 1926 by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, then named the Bureau of Water Works and Supply.
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Photo of the St. Francis Dam in February 1927. Photo courtesy of USGS.
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%2012%2C%201928%20St%20Francis%20Dam%202.jpg
The dam failed at 11:58 p.m. Monday March 12, 1928, according to the water storage recorder on the dam. 20 minutes prior to that time, the water was slowly dropping in the reservoir indicating that leakage was increasing. The flood destroyed the power house about 1 mile below the dam at 12:04 a.m. March 13, 1928.  
12 March 1976: A large tornado outbreak spawned tornadoes in the Great Lakes and Midwest, including 9 in northern Indiana and extreme southern Michigan. A tornado missed President Ford's motorcade by a quarter mile near O'Hare. The next morning, he got out of his vehicle to view the damage.
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%2012%2C%201976%20President%20Ford.jpg
Above is an excerpt of Ford's daily diary from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum.
https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0036/pdd760313.pdf
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%2012%2C%201976-Chicago-Area-Tornadoes.jpg
The tornado map above is courtesy of ustornadoes.com 
http://www.ustornadoes.com/2013/03/26/march-1976-the-most-tornadoes-on-record-in-march-since-1950/
12 March 1993: An incredible blizzard known as "The Superstorm" struck the eastern United States on this date through the 15th. The storm was described as the most costly non-tropical storm ever to strike the U.S. doing an estimated $6 billion dollars in damage. The storm was as strong as a hurricane in terms of winds and low pressure. The pressure dropped to an incredible 28.35 inches of mercury or 960 millibars when then storm was located over the Chesapeake Bay. Boston, Massachusetts recorded a wind gust to 81 mph, the strongest wind they had recorded since Hurricane Edna in 1954. In addition, as the storm was intensifying over the Gulf of Mexico, a wind gust to 99 mph was recorded by an offshore oil rig. It dumped incredible amounts of snow from Alabama to New England. The snow amounts were significant everywhere, but for places like Birmingham, Alabama the 17 inches recorded brought the city to a standstill for three days. Mount Leconte, North Carolina recorded 60 inches of snow. Practically every weather station in West Virginia established a new 24 hour snowfall record during the event. Syracuse, New York was buried under 43 inches of snow. 270 people were killed during the storm and another 48 lost at sea. The storm also brought a 12 foot storm surge and 15 tornadoes to Florida, where 51 people were killed. Air travel was brought to a halt as every major airport from Atlanta north was closed during the height of the storm. During the late evening into the early morning hours of the 13th, a vicious squall line swept through Florida and spawned 11 tornadoes resulting in five fatalities. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 110 mph at Alligator Point and 109 mph at Dry Tortugas. Extremely high tides occurred along the western Florida coast. A 13 foot storm surge occurred in Taylor County, Florida, resulting in 10 deaths with 57 residences destroyed. A 5 to 8 foot storm surge moved ashore in Dixie County. Over 500 homes were destroyed with major damage to another 700 structures. Click HERE for more information from the University of Illinois.  
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/%28Gh%29/arch/cases/930312/home.rxml
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13 March 1990 → A large F5 tornado went through Hesston, KS. It was on the ground for more than two hours and 47 miles and was, at times, three fourths of a mile wide. A personal check flew from Hesston to Blaine, a distance of 115 miles! As the Hesston tornado dissipated, a new F5 touched down alongside it that also grew to 3/4 mile wide along a 22-mile path.  http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ict/?n=hesston
13 March 2003 → United Airlines Flight 46 from Hawaii to San Francisco flew into severe turbulence about an hour before landing. Five flight attendants and five passengers suffered cuts and bruises when the Boeing 767 made a sudden drop in altitude. Meteorologists said the plane was likely flying near a storm front that was approaching California.
13 March 1953: An F4 tornado cut an 18-mile path through Haskell and Knox counties in Texas. 17 people were killed and an eight block area of Knox City was leveled. Click HERE for a 60th Anniversary story from Abilene Reporter-News.
http://www.reporternews.com/news/big-country/knox-city-tornado-60-years-ago-still-fresh-on-survivors-minds-ep-384935344-348326121.html
13 March 1989: Residents of the southern U.S. viewed a once in a lifetime display of the Northern Lights. This solar storm also caused the entire province of Quebec, Canada to suffer an electrical power blackout. Click HERE for more information from NASA.
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/sun_darkness.html
13 March 1990: Thunderstorms produced severe weather from northwest Texas to Wisconsin, Iowa and Nebraska during the day and into the night. Severe thunderstorms spawned 59 tornadoes, including twenty-six strong or violent tornadoes, and there were about two hundred reports of large hail or damaging winds. There were forty-eight tornadoes in Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa, and some of the tornadoes in those three states were the strongest of record for so early in the season, and for so far northwest in the United States. The most powerful tornado of the day was one that tore through the central Kansas community of Hesston. The F5 tornado killed two persons, injured sixty others, and caused 22 million dollars damage along its 67-mile path. The tornado had a life span of two hours. Another tornado tracked 124 miles across southeastern Nebraska injuring eight persons and causing more than five million dollars damage during its three-hour life span. Click HERE for more information from the NWS Office in Wichita, Kansas. http://www.weather.gov/ict/hesston
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A map of the tornadoes in the March 1990 tornado outbreak showing path and rating. The map is courtesy of the NWS Office in Wichita, Kansas.
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The photo above is courtesy of the NWS Office in Wichita, Kansas.
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14 March 1933 → An F3 tornado passed directly across the city of Nashville, TN, causing about $2 million (1933) in damage.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ohx/?n=nashvilletornado
14 March 1993 → A blizzard known as "The Storm of the Century" affected the eastern United States yesterday into today. Record snowfalls paralyzed Georgia, Tennessee, and the Appalachians. Winds pushed snowdrifts 10 to 14 feet high in Tennessee and Pennsylvania. More than four and a half feet of snow fell on Mount LeConte, Tennessee. Eastern Kentucky was also hard hit.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/images/tae/Superstorm_Snowfalltotals.jpg
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/%28Gh%29/arch/cases/930312/home.rxml
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hun/?n=hunsur_1993_03_12-14
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/?n=winter_blizzardof1993
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/rlx/weather/march93.html
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk/soo/sclimo/evt_mar131993.php
14 March 2010 → From the 13th to the 15th wind gusts to hurricane force buffeted the Northeast, along with up to 10 inches of torrential rains. The hardest hit area was from northern New Jersey to eastern Massachusetts. The Pawtuxet River in Rhode Island and Shawsheen River in Massachusetts set new record high stages. In New York City, Central Park received nearly five inches of rain, and winds gusted to 75mph at JFK Airport.
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/aly/Past/2010/Mar_13-14_2010/Mar_13-14_2010.htm
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/aly/Past/2010/Mar_13-14_2010/PNS_OKX.txt
14 March 1933: A deadly tornado outbreak affected the Middle Tennessee region, including Nashville on this day. The outbreak, which produced five or more tornadoes, killed 44 people and injured at least 461 others. The strongest tornado, F3, cut a path through the center of Nashville. About 1,400 homes were damaged or destroyed. Windows were blown out of the State Capitol Building.
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The entrance to the Auditorium of the Bailey High School. The auditorium's walls were forced outward, allowing the roof to cave in. The image is courtesy from the NWS Office in Nashville. Click HERE for more information.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ohx/?n=nashvilletornado
14 March 1935: Suffocating dust storms occurred frequently in southeast Colorado between the 12th and the 25th of the month. Six people died, and many livestock starved or suffocated. Up to six feet of dust covered the ground. Schools were closed, and many rural homes were deserted by tenants.  
14 March 2008: An EF2 tornado moved through downtown Atlanta, Georgia shortly before 10 pm damaging the Georgia Dome where the SEC men's basketball tournament was underway. Click HERE for more information from the NWS Office in Peachtree City, Georgia.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ffc/?n=atltor31408
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The tornado track map above it courtesy of the NWS Office in Peachtree, Georgia.
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%2014%2C%202008%20Atlanta%20Tornado.jpg
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15 March 1941 → One of the worst Plains blizzards of the 20th Century struck North Dakota and Minnesota tonight into tomorrow. The blizzard began on a Saturday night while many were traveling, and claimed 71 lives. Winds gusted to 75 mph at Duluth, MN, and reached 85 mph at Grand Forks, ND. Snow drifts 12 feet high were reported in north central Minnesota.
15 March 1984 → A violent tornado lifted the 1/4-mile-long Route 16 steel bridge and threw it into Greers Ferry Lake in Arkansas.
15 March 1938: A tornado hit McPaul, Iowa while moving from southeast to northwest. Another tornado raced through Batesville, Illinois at 60 to 65 mph. Another tornado causing F4 damage killed 10 and injured 12 in St. Clair County, Missouri. This tornado was part of an outbreak that produced four different tornadoes and was responsible for 11 deaths and 42 injuries.
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%2015%2C%201938%20Tornadoes.jpg
The image above is courtesy from the Monthly Weather Review. Click HERE to read the report.
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/070/mwr-070-04-0065.pdf
15 March 1952: On Reunion Island, some 400 miles east of Madagascar 127.56 inches of rain fell in a three-day period in the spring of 1952. This set a world record for the most rain in a 72 hour period. Also from the 15th to the 16th 73.62 inches of rain fell in this 24 hours period at Cilaos, La Reunion Island in the South Indian Ocean to set a world record. 
15 March 2004: Brownsville, Texas breaks a century-old record for the greatest daily rainfall accumulation for March with 3.23 inches.
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16 March 1919 → A family of tornadoes of up to F4 strength struck along a 45 mile long path from Issaquena County to Sunflower County in western Mississippi. Though 24 people are known to have been killed, the local newspapers concentrated on the deaths of the plantation owners and paid less attention to the tenant workers who may have died.
16 March 1942 → One-fourth of Lacon, IL was destroyed by an F5 (estimated) tornado. Many of the 60 damaged homes were completely swept away, and debris was found 25 miles distant. The tornado killed eight people along its 30-mile long path northwest and north of Peoria. It was part of a huge outbreak that killed 152 people across Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/iwx/?n=16mar42_tornado
16 March 1986 → A small tornado touched down perilously close to Disneyland in Anaheim, CA.
16 March 2004 → Heavy rainfall began yesterday on La Reunion Island, in the Indian Ocean. The rainfall finally ended today and produced the current world record for a 24-hour rainfall total of 73.6 inches.  (Needs to be checked http://wmo1.asu.edu/#global )

16 March 1885: On this date through the 21st, Pointe-des-Monts, Quebec Canada received 98 inches of snowfall.
16 March 1942: A deadly tornado outbreak occurred over the Central and Southern US on March 16-17th. The tornado outbreak killed 153 people and injured at least 1,284. Best estimate indicates this event contained 13 F3 tornadoes, 6 F4s and one F5. The F5 tornado occurred north of Peoria, Illinois, in the towns of Alta, Chillicothe before crossing the Illinois River and striking the town of Lacon. A quarter of the homes in Lacon were destroyed and debris was carried for 25 miles.
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%2016%2C%201942%20Lacon%20IL%20Tornado%20Map.jpg
The tornado track above is an estimate from the information provided by Thomas Grazulis's book, Significant Tornadoes 1680-1991.
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The photograph above is the tornado that would eventually hit Lacon. This photo was taken near Spring Bay, which is east of the 5 mile marker on the tornado track map. The photo is courtesy from Donald Cox (Genealogytrail.com.) Click HERE for more photos from Lacon, Illionis.
http://www.genealogytrails.com/ill/marshall/1942Tornado/1942tornado.html
In Kentucky, an estimated F3 tornado destroyed the Cox's Creek Baptist Church, which is southeast of Louisville. Click HERE for more information from the Bullitt County History Museum.
http://bullittcountyhistory.org/bullitthistory/memories/tornado42.html
16 March 1986: A small but rare tornado touched down perilously close to Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
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17 March 1892 → A winter storm in southwest and middle Tennessee produced 26 inches of snow in Riddleton and 18 inches in Memphis, setting the record for the city for deepest snowfall. Nashville recorded its greatest one day snowfall of 17 inches.
17 March 1936 → On March 17 and 18, 1936, Pittsburgh, PA witnessed the worst flood in its history when flood levels at the source of the Ohio River peaked at 46 feet (21 feet above flood stage) after heavy rains fell on top of snow cover. 100,000 buildings were destroyed, 65% of downtown went under water, and 60,000 steelworkers were temporarily put out of work. About 70 people were killed.
http://www.floodsafety.noaa.gov/states/pa-flood.shtml
17 March 2002 → Normally protected from heavy snowfalls by mountains, Anchorage, AK picked up a record-setting 26 to 29 inches of snow across the city in 24 hours.
http://pafc.arh.noaa.gov/papers/snowstorm.pdf
17 March 2012 → International Falls, MN reached a high temperature of 77 degrees. This broke the old daily record by 22 degrees and the old monthly record by 4 degrees!
17 March 1892: A winter storm in southwestern and central Tennessee produced 26.3 inches of snow at Riddleton and 18.5 inches at Memphis. It was the deepest snow of record for those areas. 
17 March 1906: The temperature at Snake River, Wyoming dipped to 50 degrees below zero, a record for the U.S. for the month of March.
17 March 1906: A magnitude 7.1 earthquake caused significant damage in Taiwan. According to the Central Weather Bureau in China, this earthquake caused 1,258 deaths, 2,385 injuries, and destroyed over 6,000 homes. Click HERE for more information from the History Channel.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/earthquakes-kill-more-than-1200-in-taiwan
17 March 1952: The ban on using the word "tornado" issued in 1886 ended on this date. In the 1880s, John P. Finley of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, then handling weather forecasting for the U.S., developed generalized forecasts on days tornadoes were most likely. But in 1886, the Army ended Finley's program and banned the word "tornado" from forecasts because the harm done by a tornado prediction would eventually be greater than that which results from the tornado itself?. The thinking was that people would be trampled in the panic if they heard a tornado was possible. The ban stayed in place after the Weather Bureau, now the National Weather Service, took over forecasting from the Army. A tornado that wrecked 52 large aircraft at Tinker Air Force Base, OK, on 3/20/1948, spurred Air Force meteorologists to begin working on ways to forecast tornadoes. The Weather Bureau also began looking for ways to improve tornado forecasting and established the Severe Local Storm Warning Center, which is now the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, OK. The ban on the word "tornado" fell on this date when the new center issued its first Tornado Watch.
17 March 1990: Showers and thunderstorms associated with a slow moving cold front produced torrential rains across parts of the southeastern U.S. over a two-day period. Flooding claimed the lives of at least 22 persons including thirteen in Alabama. Up to 16 inches of rain deluged southern Alabama with 10.63 inches reported at Mobile AL in 24 hours. The town of Elba AL was flooded with 6 to 12 feet of water causing more than 25 million dollars damage, and total flood damage across Alabama exceeded 100 million dollars. Twenty-six counties in the state were declared disaster areas.
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Flooding in Elba, Alabama. Click HERE for more information from the NWS office in Birmingham, Alabama. 
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/?n=flood_historicfloods
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18 March 1925 → The incredible Tri State Tornado struck Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. The F5 tornado stayed on the ground for 219 miles from Ellington, MO (or possibly even farther west, recent research suggests) to Owensville, IN. Killing 695 people, it was the deadliest tornado in U.S. history. For three and a half hours the tornado destroyed farms, homes, and schools. Virtually all of Gorham, IL was destroyed, and over half of its population was killed or injured. Griffin, IN lost 150 homes.  http://www.crh.noaa.gov/pah/?n=1925tor
18 March 1952 → A total of 151.73 inches of rain fell at Cilaos, Reunion Island, to set the world rainfall record for a five-day period.
18 March 1982 → An F2 tornado, one of the strongest ever recorded in Hawaii, struck Honolulu.
18 March 1925: The great "Tri-State Tornado" occurred, the most deadly tornado in U.S. history. The tornado claimed 695 lives (including 234 at Murphysboro, IL and 148 at West Frankfort, IL), and caused seventeen million dollars property damage. It cut a swath of destruction 219 miles long and as much as a mile wide from east central Missouri to southern Indiana between 1 PM and 4 PM. The tornado leveled a school in West Frankfort, Illinois and picked up sixteen students setting them down unharmed 150 yards away. Seven other tornadoes claimed an additional 97 lives that day. 
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The tornado track above is from ustornadoes.com. Click HERE for more information. 
 http://www.ustornadoes.com/2014/03/18/the-tri-state-tornado-of-1925/
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The photograph above is the damage to the Longfellow school in Murphysboro, Illinois where 17 students were killed. The NWS Office in Paducah has more information about this extraordinary event. 
http://www.weather.gov/pah/1925Tornado_tt
18 March 1952: 151.73 inches of rain fell at Cilaos, La Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean over a five day period (13th-18th) to set the world rainfall record. This record was broken on February 24th-28th, 2007 when Commerce La Reunion Island picked up 196.06 inches.
18 March 1990: An intense hailstorm struck the Sydney region in Australia producing strong winds and heavy rain in a swathe from Camden to Narrabeen, causing extensive damage. Hailstones were measured up to 3 inches in diameter. The total insured damage was estimated at $319 million Australian dollars, the third largest loss event in Australian insurance history.
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19 March 1948 → One of Illinois' deadliest tornadoes affected areas in and north of the St. Louis metropolitan area. The tornado traveled from Alton to Bunker Hill, killing 33 people and injuring 449. Half of Fosterburg and 80% of Bunker Hill were damaged or destroyed. The twister occurred at 6:30 in the morning.
19 March 1986 → The 153-mph wind gust that was recorded in Scotland's Cairngorm Mountains is the highest ever recorded in the United Kingdom.
19 March 2003 → A two-day snowstorm dumped seven feet of snow on parts of Colorado and Wyoming. The heavy snow ripped the cloth roof at Denver International Airport. Meanwhile, small tornadoes were reported in Tennessee and Alabama.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/pub/events/march2003.php
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/den/gif/pns5snow.gif
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ohx/?n=stormsurvey03192003
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hun/?n=hunsur_2003-03-19
1907: The highest March temperature in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was set when the temperature soared to 97 degrees. Dodge City, Kansas also set a March record with 98 degrees. Denver, Colorado set a daily record high of 81 degrees.
1948: An estimated F4 tornado moved through Fosterburg, Bunker Hill, and Gillespie, Illinois, killing 33 people and injuring 449 others. 2,000 buildings in Bunker Hill were damaged or destroyed. Total damage was $3.6 million dollars.
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A view of Meissner School in Bunker Hill, Illinois, one of the few surviving buildings after the 1948 tornado.
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A view of the business district of Bunker Hill, Illinois after the 1948 tornado.
2003: One of the worst blizzards since records began in 1872 struck the Denver metro area and Colorado's Front Range began with a vengeance. Denver International Airport was closed stranding about 4,000 travelers. The weight of the snow caused a 40-foot gash in a portion of the roof forcing the evacuation of that section of the main terminal building. Winds gusting to 40 mph produced drifts six feet high in places around the city. Snowfall in foothills was even more impressive. The heavy wet snow caused numerous roofs of homes and businesses to collapse. The estimated cost of property damage alone, not including large commercial buildings, was $93 million dollars, making it the most costly snowstorm on record for the area. In Denver alone at least 258 structures were damaged. Up to 135,000 people lost power during the storm and it took several days for power to be totally restored. Mayor Wellington Webb of Denver said, "This is the storm of the century, a backbreaker, a record breaker, a roof breaker." Avalanches in the mountains and foothills closed many roads, including Interstate 70, stranding hundreds of skiers and travelers. The Eldora Ski area 270 skiers were stranded when an avalanche closed the main access road. After the storm, a military helicopter had to deliver food to the resort until the road could be cleared. Two people died in Aurora from heart attacks after shoveling the heavy wet snow. The National Guard sent 40 soldiers and 20 heavy duty vehicles to rescue stranded travelers along a section of I-70. The storm made March 2003 the snowiest March on record, the fourth snowiest month on record and the fifth wettest March on record. The total of 22.9 inches is the greatest 24-hour total in March. The storm also broke 19 consecutive months of below normal precipitation for Denver.  The 31.8 inches of snow was recorded at the former Stapleton Airport in Denver for its second greatest snowstorm on record (the greatest was 37.5 inches on 12/4-12/5/1913) with up to three feet in other areas in and around the city and more than seven feet in the foothills. Higher amounts included: Fritz Peak: 87.5 inches, Rollinsville: 87.5 inches, Canin Creek: 83 inches, Near Bergen Park: 74 inches, Northwest of Evergreen: 73 inches, Cola Creek Canyon: 72 inches, Georgetown: 70 inches, Jamestown: 63 inches, Near Blackhawk: 60 inches, Eldora Ski Area: 55 inches, Ken Caryl Ranch: 46.6 inches, Aurora: 40 inches, Centennial: 38 inches, Buckley AFB: 37 inches, Southwest Denver: 35 inches, Louisville: 34 inches, Arvada: 32 inches, Broomfield: 31 inches, Westminster: 31 inches and Boulder: 22.5 inches. This storm was the result of a very moist intense slow moving Pacific system which tracked across the four corners and into southeastern Colorado which allowed a deep easterly upslope to form among the front-range.
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20 March 1875 → A massive tornado outbreak tore through the Southeast, with Georgia the hardest hit. Several of the tornadoes were of F4 strength, up to a mile wide, and took a total of 96 lives.
20 March 1995 → Dense fog along Interstate 10 near Mobile caused a 167-car pileup that killed one and injured 71.
20 March 2003 → Intense sand storms did not stop the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, as United States and British planes dropped bombs on Baghdad.
20 March 1948: The city of Juneau received 31 inches of snow in 24 hours, a record for the Alaska capitol. (20th - 21st)
Also on this day, An F3 tornado tracked through Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, OK just before 10 p.m. destroying 54 aircraft, including 17 transport planes valued at $500,000 dollars apiece. Total damage amounted to more than $10 million dollars, a record for the state that stood until the massive tornado outbreak of 5/3/1999. Major Ernest W. Fawbush and Captain Robert C. Miller were ordered to see if operationally forecasting tornadoes was possible. The tornado prompted the first attempt at tornado forecasting. Forecasters at Tinker believed conditions were again favorable for tornadoes, and issued the first recorded tornado forecast. Five days later on 3/25 at 6pm, a forecasted tornado occurred, crossing the prepared base and damage was minimized. Their successful, albeit somewhat lucky forecast paved the way for tornado forecasts to be issued by the U.S. Weather Bureau after a long ban. Click HERE for more information form NOAA.  http://www.outlook.noaa.gov/tornadoes/torn50.htm
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Airplanes destroyed by the first Tinker Air Force Base tornado. Image courtesy from NOAA.
20 March 1986: Great Britain recorded their highest wind gust ever as the summit of Scotland's Cairngorm Mountains, at 4,085 feet had a gust of 172 mph.
20 March 1998: A deadly tornado outbreak occurred over portions of the southeastern United States on this day. Particularly hard hit were rural areas outside of Gainesville, Georgia, where at least 12 people were killed during the early morning hours. The entire outbreak killed 14 people and produced 12 tornadoes across three states with the town of Stoneville, North Carolina being also hard hit by the storms.
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Photo of F3 Stoneville tornado as it crossed US 220 and began entering Stoneville, NC from the southwest. The photo is courtesy from the NWS Office in Blacksburg.
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21 March 1932 → An outbreak of at least 33 tornadoes, several of them likely F4 in strength, killed 334 people in AL, MS, GA, and TN (268 of them in Alabama). In Sylacauga, AL 600 homes suffered damage and 29 people were killed. Chilton County, AL was struck by two F4 tornadoes an hour apart, with a total of 38 fatalities and half a million dollars (1932) damage.  http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/?n=event_03211932
21 March 1936 → During the Great New England Flood, the Connecticut River in Hartford was more than 21 feet above flood stage.
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/nerfc/historical/mar1936.htm
21 March 1951 → Antarctica is the windiest place in the world. Port Martin averages 40 mph winds throughout the year. On this day, the winds averaged 108 mph.
21 March 1801: The Jefferson Flood hit the Connecticut Valley. The flooding was the greatest since 1692. The Federalists named the flood for the new President, who they blamed for the disaster. 
21 March 1876: More than 40 inches of snow stopped traffic at Montreal, Quebec Canada. Trains were delayed, and mail carriers resorted to snowshoes. 
21 March 1932: A tornado swarm occurred in the Deep South. Between late afternoon and early the next morning severe thunderstorms spawned 31 tornadoes in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Tennessee. The tornadoes killed 334 persons and injured 1784 others. Northern Alabama was hardest hit. Tornadoes in Alabama killed 286 persons and caused five million dollars damage.
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The article above is courtesy from the NWS Office in Birmingham, Alabama. Click HERE for more information about this tornado outbreak.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/?n=event_03211932
21 March 1951: Antarctica is the windiest place in the world. Port Martin averaged 40 mph winds throughout the year. On this day, the winds averaged 108 mph. 
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22 March 1992 → USAir Flight 405 was scheduled to depart from LaGuardia Airport in New York City for Cleveland, OH. Due to a delay at the gate, during a storm in which four inches of snow fell, a large amount of ice collected on the wings and airframe. The aircraft crashed during takeoff into Flushing Bay. 27 of the 51 people on board were killed.
22 March 1999 → Tropical Cyclone Vance came ashore in Australia bringing much destruction as a category 5. Water and power supplies throughout Gascoyne and Goldfields were disrupted and many homesteads sustained wind or flooding damage. The main rail and road links to the eastern states were cut. The storm surge was greater than 15 ft, and as much as 12" of rain fell. 
22 March 1888: Chicago's morning low dips to one degree below zero, the latest sub-zero Fahrenheit reading in the city's history. This record still stands today.
22 March 1893: The first tornado was recorded in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on this date. It destroyed 14 buildings and injured four people as it passed through the center of town. There was minor damage to the Weather Bureau office, which was located at Grand and Robinson in south Oklahoma City.
22 March 1920: A spectacular display of the "Northern Lights" was visible as far south as Bradenton FL, El Paso, TX and Fresno, CA. At Detroit MI, the display was described "so brilliant as to blot out all stars below the first magnitude".
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%2022%2C%201920%20Northern%20Lights(1).jpg
Click HERE to read this article from solarstorms.org.
http://www.solarstorms.org/NewsPapers/1920b.pdf
http://www.solarstorms.org/SRefStorms.html
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23 March 1899 → A whopping 141 inches of snow fell on Ruby, CO between the 23rd and 30th to establish the state record for greatest snowfall from a single storm at the time.
23 March 1913 → An F4 tornado hit Omaha, NE at 5:45 pm killing a total of 101 and injuring 350 people. The tornado killed 7 people at Ralston, and then hit Omaha, killing another 94. The same day another F4 tornado made a path through Indiana including Terre Haute. This tornado killed 21.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/oax/archive/1913_Omaha_Tor/omahatornado.php
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/oax/archive/1913_Omaha_Tor/1913Gallery.php
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/wea00229.htm
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/wea00230.htm
23 March 2007 → In what was arguably New Mexico's worst tornado on record, an F2 killed two and injured 33 as it moved through Clovis. Over $16 million damage was done.
23 March 1907: Today was the warmest March day ever recorded in Washington, DC with a maximum temperature of 93 degrees. Washington DC has seen three 90-degree days in March, all of which occurred in 1907.
23 March 1913: A significant tornado outbreak occurred in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa on this day. Seven estimated F2 or stronger tornadoes killed 168 people and caused extensive damage to the area on Easter Sunday.
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The devastation at 30th and Hamilton Streets in Omaha, Nebraska, following an estimated F4 tornado. This image is courtesy of the Library of Congress. Click HERE for information from HistoricOmaha.com.  http://www.historicomaha.com/tornado.htm
http://www.historicomaha.com/
23 March 2007: A tornado obliterates a section of the town Clovis in eastern New Mexico, flattening about 100 homes and businesses, snapping telephone poles and even heaving a trailer through a bowling alley. At least three schools are damaged. The tornado is one of thirteen that strike a dozen communities along the New Mexico - Texas border, leaving two people critically injured.

What about the New Albany, IN tornado of 23 March 1917?
See http://www.weather.gov/media/lmk/pdf/new_albany_cyclone_cody_moore.pdf
and http://www.weather.gov/lmk/tornado_climatology_march231917
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24 March 1957 → Snow drifts piled up to 14 feet deep in the area around Amarillo, TX.
24 March 1975 → In Atlanta, GA an F3 tornado hit the Governor's Mansion causing considerable damage. 3 people were killed and 152 were injured.
24 March 1912: Residents of Kansas City began to dig out from a storm that produced 25 inches of snow in 24 hours. The snowfall total was nearly twice that of any other storm of modern record in Kansas City before or since that time. A record 40 inches of snow fell during the month of March that year, and the total for the winter season of 67 inches was also a record. By late February of that year, Kansas City had received just six inches of snow. Olathe, Kansas received 37 inches of snow in the snowstorm, establishing a single storm record for the state of Kansas. (23rd-24th)
24 March 1929: St. Louis, Missouri soared to 92 degrees; their all-time record high for March. 
24 March 1975: "The Governor's Tornado" hop-scotched a 13-mile path across the western part of Atlanta, GA during the early morning hours, causing considerable damage to the Governor's mansion. Hundreds of expensive homes, businesses and apartment complexes were damaged. Total losses were estimated at $56 million dollars. Three people lost their lives and another 152 were injured by the F3 tornado.
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%2024%2C%201975%20Governor%20Tornado.jpg
Click HERE for more information from 11alive.com 
http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/buckhead/2015/04/02/governors-mansion-tornado-damage/70857976/
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25 March 1843 → A second major snowstorm in a few days hit the eastern United States, producing snow from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico. Eastern Tennessee was buried under 15 inches of snow while Natchez, MS was blanketed with 3 inches.
25 March 1901 → An F3 tornado killed more than 15 people across the city of Birmingham, AL at 9:45 in the morning.
25 March 1948 → Maj. E. J. Fawbush and Cpt. R. C. Miller issued a tornado forecast at 2:50pm for Tinker AFB in Oklahoma, stating that a tornado would be possible between 4pm and 6pm that afternoon. The base was struck by a tornado at 6pm. The modern area of tornado warnings had begun.   http://www.outlook.noaa.gov/tornadoes/torn50.htm
25 March 1901: More than 20 people were killed by an estimated F3 tornado that moved across parts of Birmingham, Alabama. The twister cut a 15-mile path from the south side of the city to Avondale and Irondale.
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%2025%2C%201901%20Birmingham%20Tornado%20Damage.jpg
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%2025%2C%201901%20Birmingham%20Tornado%20Damage%202.jpg
The above images are courtesy of the Birmingham Public Library Digital Collection. Click HERE for more information.
http://bplonline.cdmhost.com/cdm/ref/collection/p4017coll6/id/1245
25 March 1935: Suffocating dust storms occurred frequently in southeast Colorado between the 12th and the 25th of the month. Six people died, and many livestock starved or suffocated. Up to six feet of dust covered the ground. Schools were closed, and many rural homes were deserted by tenants. 
25 March 1992: Hailstones up to four inches in diameter resulted in more than $60 million in damage in Orlando, Florida. This is still the costliest Florida hailstorm on record.
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26 March 1884 → Two steamers were crushed by ice during the breakup of a major ice jam in Bismarck, ND.
26 March 1948 → An F4 tornado hit Coatesville, IN killing 14 and injuring 200. About 40 farms were torn apart across Putnam County. The funnel destroyed 80% of Coatesville.
26 March 1976 → Seven frame homes in Murry Spur, OK were swept away by an F5 tornado. There were two deaths, one of which was in a mobile home.
26 March 1948: Good Friday tornadoes moved from Terre Haute to Redkey, Indiana killing 20 people. About 80% of the town of Coatesville was destroyed, and 16 people were killed. The Coatesville Carnegie Library was a total loss. The path was a half mile wide.
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%2026%2C%201948%20Coatesville%20Tornado%20Damage.jpg
Coatesville tornado damage. The image is the courtesy of the Indiana State Police.
https://sites.google.com/site/indianascarnegielibraries/indiana-s-carnegie-libraries/coatesville-1914
26 March 2009: The proof is in the pudding - A NOAA Weather Radio can save your life. Near Belk, AL, a family was alerted to a tornado by their weather radio; they went to their storm cellar. They heard the "jet roar" of the EF1 tornado as it damaged their home; they were unhurt.
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27 March 1857 → A tornado cut a 100-yard wide path through Augusta, KY, then crossed the Ohio River before lifting on the Ohio side. Two tobacco warehouses were thrown into the river.
27 March 1890 → Several tornadoes hit the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys. After crossing the Ohio River from Illinois, an F4 tornado cut a swath from Livingston County to Daviess County, KY killing 21 and injuring 170.
27 March 1977 → In heavy fog a Pan Am Boeing 747 was struck by a KLM Boeing 747 on a runway in Tenerife, Canary Islands after the KLM crew mistook an air traffic control radio transmission as clearance for take-off. 582 passengers were killed in the worst air disaster until September 11, 2001.
27 March 1994 → A tornado outbreak on Palm Sunday took 42 lives in AL, GA, SC, and NC. A church near Piedmont, AL collapsed when it was struck by one of the tornadoes, resulting in 20 fatalities.  http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/assessments/pdfs/palmsunday.pdf
27 March 2006 → Two people were killed when a tornado struck Hamburg, Germany around 7pm. It was part of a large area of severe storms that swept through Germany, the Netherlands, France, and Belgium, resulting in 300,000 power outages.
27 March 1890: The middle Mississippi Valley saw a major tornado outbreak on this day with 24, estimated F2 or greater tornadoes impacting the area. At least 146 people were killed by tornadoes. The most notable of the tornadoes was an estimated F4 that carved a path from the Parkland neighborhood to Crescent Hill in Louisville, Kentucky. This tornado destroyed 766 buildings and killed an estimated 76 to 120 people. Most of the deaths occurred when the Falls City Hall collapsed. Click HERE for more information from The Filson Historical Society.  http://www.filsonhistorical.org/archive/news_v5n2_cyclone.html
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%2027%2C%201890%20Louisville%20Ky%20Tornado.jpg
A view of the Tobacco Warehouse District after the tornado. Image courtesy of the University of Louisville. Click HERE for more information.
http://web.archive.org/web/20060910010635/http:/www.louisville.edu/library/ekstrom/special/tornado/tornado.html
27 March 1931: A blizzard struck western Kansas and adjoining states was called the "worst since January 1888". Twenty children, ages seven to fourteen, were stranded in a makeshift school bus for 33 hours during this blizzard. Click HERE for more information about the Pleasant Hill School Bus Tragedy.  http://www.kiowacounty-colorado.com/RPT-PleasantHillPlanDraft.pdf
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%2028%2C%201931%20Pleasant%20Hill%20School%20Bus%20Tragedy.jpg
27 March 1946: Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada thawed out as the mercury soared to 74 degrees, their warmest March temperature on record. 
27 March 1964: Great Alaskan earthquake left at least 100 dead in Anchorage, Alaska. The tsunami generated by the earthquake in Prince William Sound, Alaska slammed a 2-by-12-inch plank into a truck tire that passed about three feet through the tire. Waves reached 103 feet above the low - tide mark. Click HERE for more information from the History Channel.  http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/earthquake-rocks-alaska
27 March 1994: The Southeastern Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak occurred on this date. What began as a peaceful Palm Sunday quickly changed to a historic day in weather history when a powerful tornado ripped through southern Alabama and Georgia. By the time the storm was over, 22 people were dead and 92 were injured. The F4 tornado cut a 50-mile path from Ragland in St. Clair, County Alabama to the Georgia line. The storm touched down near Ragland at 10:51 am. The storm struck Ohatchee than roared across northeastern Calhoun County, passing near Piedmont and hitting Goshen in Cherokee County. The most disastrous damage occurred at Goshen, where the twister struck the Goshen United Methodist Church at 11:37am. 20 people were killed at the church, which did not hear the tornado warning issued 10 minutes earlier by the National Weather Service in Birmingham. A tornado watch had been issued at 9:30 am. Following the tornadoes, Vice President Al Gore pledged to extend NOAA Weatheradio coverage into the areas affected by the twisters, which had previously been unable to receive the alarm signals. Click HERE for more information about the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak.  http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/assessments/pdfs/palmsunday94.pdf
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%2027%2C%201994%20Palm%20Sunday%20Tornado.jpgs, including several F4s. There were 57 fatalities and 1248 injuries, along with $200 million in damage. Nashville, TN tied their all-time record low barometric pressure (29.02"). 
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~nwsfo/storage/cases/19840328/
http://www.weather.gov/mhx/March281984Anniversary
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28 March 1988 → Grapefruit sized hail fell on Oklahoma City. The hail, along with winds gusting to 70mph, destroyed 1,500 new cars at the General Motors plant. Total damage around the city came to about $35 million. Other severe thunderstorms produced three tornadoes and baseball sized hail over other parts of central and southern Oklahoma.
28 March 2004 → The only known South Atlantic hurricane was recorded as Tropical Cyclone Catarina's winds hit 100mph. 
28 March 1920: The worst tornado disaster of record occurred in Chicago, IL as a tornado killed 28 persons and caused three million dollars damage. This tornado was part of an outbreak which saw 38 tornadoes hit the Midwest and the Deep South states. Over 380 people died and at least, 1,215 were injured during the Palm Sunday outbreak.
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http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%2028%2C%201920%20Chicago%20Tornado.jpg
The information above is courtesy of WGN-TV. The graphic was created in 2015.
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%2028%2C%201920%20Chicago%20Tornado%20Damage.jpg
http://www3.gendisasters.com/files/newphotos/ILmelrosepark-tornado-sacredheartchurch28mar1920br.jpg
The image above is the Church of Sacred Heart in Melrose Park, Illinois. The image is courtesy of Gendisasters.com. Click HERE for more photographs.  http://www3.gendisasters.com/illinois/5585/melrose-park-il-tornado-mar-1920
28 March 1935: On this date through March 31st, a great dust storm descended on Amarillo, Texas reducing visibility to zero for a six-hour period. 
28 March 1963: A decision was handed down in the case of Whitney Bartie vs. United States of America. Bartie sued the U.S. Weather Bureau for negligence in failing to provide a warning about 1957's Hurricane Audrey. Bartie's wife and five children were killed after the 12-foot storm surge struck Cameron Parish, LA on the morning of June 27, 1957. It was ruled that the evidence presented did not establish negligence on the part of the Weather Bureau.
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29 March 1848 → An ice dam on Lake Erie near Buffalo, NY stopped the flow of water over Niagara Falls for 30 hours.
29 March 1935 → A severe duststorm blanketed Amarillo, TX, for 84 hours. During one six hour period the visibility was near zero.
29 March 2000 → A boater was killed by softball sized hail on Lake Worth, TX.
29 March 1848: Niagara Falls eased to a trickle during the late afternoon and then became "silent" for 30 hours. Most people noticed the silence on the morning of the 30th. This is the only time in recorded history that both falls stopped flowing. An ice jam at the neck of Lake Erie and the Niagara River entrance between Fort Erie, Ontario Canada, and Buffalo, NY, was caused by wind, waves, and lake currents. People even ventured into the gorge, discovering relics like weapons from War of 1812. Click HERE for more information from Niagara Parks.com 
http://www.niagaraparks.com/about-niagara-falls/niagara-falls-stopped.html  

29 March 1886: Rainfall amounts of 6-12 inches occurred over northwest Georgia in a 3-day period from March 29 through April 2. This caused record flooding on the Oostanaula and Etowah Rivers that merge to form the Coosa River. Flood waters up to 11 feet deep covered portions of Broad Street in Rome with extensive record flooding. The stage height reached 40.3 feet. Flood stage is 25 feet. This record flood and another major flood in 1892 prompted the citizens of Rome to raise the town by 12 feet. This was accomplished by bringing in thousands of wagon loads of dirt. An official rainfall amount of 7.36 inches was recorded on this day in Atlanta. The 7.36 inches is the most Atlanta has seen in one day since record keeping began in 1878. 
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%2029%2C%201886%20Map%20of%20Rome%20GA(1).jpg
The Google Map above is Rome, Georgia. The Etowah River is on the right and the Oostanaula is on the top center. These two rivers merge to form the Coosa River on the left side. The red Rome in the center of the map is also Broad Street.
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%2029%2C%201886%20Map%20of%20Rome%20Flood.jpg

Downtown Rome during the Flood of 1886. The image is from RoadsideGeorgia.com
29 March 1942: A slow-moving low pressure system brought 11.5 inches of snow to the nation's capital on March 29, 1942. It still stands as the highest March snowfall on record in Washington, D.C. on a single calendar day. In addition, Baltimore, Maryland recorded a very impressive total of 21.9 inches of snow on the same day. On the flip side, eight days later, temperature in D.C. soared to 92 degrees on April 6, 1942 and it remains the highest temperature on record for April 6. Click HERE for a video about the weather conditions during this event from the Weather Prediction Center.
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%2029%2C%201942%20Washington%20DC%20snow.jpg
Carroll County, Northwest of Baltimore Maryland, received 33 inches of snow on Palm Sunday 1942. By the time this image of West Main Street at the intersection of Liberty Street was taken, most of the snow has been removed. The image is courtesy of the Historical Society of Carroll County.
29 March 2007: If thunder is heard, one should go to a lightning safe area. A high school athlete was struck and killed by lightning at a track meet in Carbondale, Illinois.  A bolt or 2 had been seen miles away, and a distant rumble of thunder was heard before the fatal strike. 
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30 March 1805 → Snow rollers measuring 24 inches in diameter that are made when strong winds blow across a wet snow pack were seen in Battery Park in New York City.  http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ilx/events/roller/roller.php
30 March 1938 → 10 people were killed and 200 injured when an F4 tornado devastated Columbus, KS. Near Hollow, OK a school was destroyed, but all the students were uninjured.
30 March 2011 → Rainfall in Thailand reached 50 inches over a 5-day period, compared to a normal monthly average of 2 inches, killing 40 people. 
30 March 1805: New York's City's Battery Park was strewn with 24-inch snow rollers, from a ferocious storm between the March 26th and March 28th. Snow rollers are natural snowballs that are formed when winds blow over a snow covered surface.
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The photo above is an example of a snow roll in Pennsylvania.
30 March 1848: On six reported occasions, the water flow over the American Falls has been totally blocked by ice and ceased to fall. But only once has this happened on the much larger Horseshoe Falls. Click HERE for more information from Keith Heidorn, Ph.D., The Weather Doctor.
http://islandnet.com/~see/weather/almanac/arc2000/alm00mar.htm

http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/American%20Falls%20Frozen%20Over.jpg
Above is The American Falls frozen over with people on the ice. The date of this photograph is April 1909, and is courtesy of the National Library of Australia.
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31 March 1807 → Nearly a foot of snow fell on Vincennes, IN.
31 March 1933 → A massive F4 tornado cut a devastating 25-mile swath across Jones, Jasper, and Clarke Counties in Mississippi. The tornado left 37 dead and 170 injured.
31 March 1942 → Puu Kukui, HI recorded 107 inches of rain in March 1942.
31 March 1942 - 107 inches of rain fell during the month at Puu Kukui at Maui, Hawaii to set the U.S. record for rainfall in one month. The same place also holds the annual rainfall record for the United States with 578 inches in 1950.
31 March 1962 → Seventeen people were killed by a tornado at Milton, FL. It is the worst single tornado in the history of the Sunshine State. 
31 March 1962 - A tornado struck the town of Milton, Florida killing 17 persons and injuring 100 others. It was the worst tornado disaster in Florida history. 
http://www.weather.gov/abr/ThisDayinWeatherHistory
new http://www.weather.gov/abr/ThisDayinWeatherHistory
31 March 1942: 107 inches of rain fell during the month at Puu Kukui at Maui, Hawaii to set the U.S. record for rainfall in one month. The same place also holds the annual rainfall record for the United States with 578 inches in 1950.
31 March 1962: A tornado struck the town of Milton, Florida killing 17 persons and injuring 100 others. It was the worst tornado disaster in Florida history. 
31 March 1973: A devastating tornado took a nearly continuous 75 mile path through north central Georgia causing more than 104 million dollars damage. Click HERE for more information from Athens Banner - Herald. 
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-03-30/tornado-ripped-trail-death-and-destruction-40-years-ago
http://www.weather.gov/images/abr/wxhistory/March/March%2031%2C%201973%20Athens%20Tornado%20track.jpg
Tornado tracks across Georgia and South Carolina from this event. Click HERE for more information from a NWS assessment.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/assessments/pdfs/Georgia-South%20Carolina%20Tornadoes%20March%201973.pdf
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See also From MPX "This Day in Weather History"  http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mpx/WxHistory.php
Now From MPX "This Day in Weather History"  http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory 
This "Day in Weather History" contains some memorable weather events and trivia from 1805 to the present day for much of Minnesota and west central Wisconsin. Many sources were used to research and compile the data. The Twin Cities/Chanhassen National Weather Service would especially like to thank the Minnesota State Climatology Office and its contributors for their input into this database.

March 1
1 March 1966: The Blizzard of '66 hit Minnesota and lasted 4 days. Aitkin received 23 inches of snow. The snow depth at International Falls reached a record 37 inches by the end of the storm.
See also Duluth -- 50th Anniversary of the March 2nd-5th, 1966 Blizzard  http://www.weather.gov/dlh/March1966Blizzard

March 2
2 March 1913: A record low temperature of 24 degrees below zero was set at the St. Cloud Regional Airport.   (Huh? should be St. Cloud Reformatory according to ThreadEx) 

March 3
3 March 1977: A snowstorm across region resulted in over 400 school closings in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
See entry for day in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory

March 4

4 March 1935: An extremely damaging ice storm hit Duluth. At the time it was called 'The worst ice storm in Duluth’s history'. The storm began with freezing rain and wet snow falling at the Duluth Weather Bureau Office at 7th Ave West and 8th Street at 10pm on March 3rd. The temperature was 26 degrees. By the morning of the 4th, the snow stopped but the freezing rain continued. The lights started going out in Duluth by 6pm on the 4th due to power lines breaking. By the morning of the 5th, Duluth was virtually isolated from the outside world except for shortwave radio. A local ham radio operator sent the Duluth National Weather Service reports: Four streetcars had to be abandoned in the storm, three of them in the western part of the city. A heavy salt mixture and pickaxes were used to try to free the stuck streetcars. A one-mile stretch of telephone poles along Thompson’s Hill was broken off as if they were toothpicks due to the ice.

March 5

5 March 1966: A powerful blizzard finally ended in the Upper Midwest. Some wind gusts from the storm topped 100 mph.

March 6

6 March 1836: Unusual cold for March lasted for 12 days at Ft. Snelling. During this time, 7 nights were in the double-digits below zero.

March 7

7 March 1987: A heat wave across Minnesota brought the earliest 70-degree readings on record to the Twin Cities. The record high for the day was 73 degrees, breaking the old record by 13 degrees. Shorts were common and people were turning over dirt in their gardens for planting.

7 March 1950: A snow and ice storm hit Minnesota. The heaviest ice was in northwest and west central Minnesota, especially in Norman County near Twin Valley. 52 electrical poles were down in this area with ice up to 1 ½ inches on wires. All communication lines out of Fargo were out with wind gusts estimated up to 60 mph. In order to provide temporary long distance service to and from isolated communities, short wave radio equipment was used to bridge the gaps. In Pipestone, several plate glass windows were blown in. During the snowstorm that followed later in the day, a Northwest Airlines plane crashed into three homes in Minneapolis killing all 13 on the plane and two on the ground. The left wing of the plane struck a flagpole at Ft. Snelling National Cemetery as it circled to land.

March 8
8 March 2004: A vigorous Alberta Clipper brought an intense snow burst across the Twin Cities from 9:30 am to Noon. 2.5 inches fell with most of it accumulating in an hour at the State Climatology Office on the University of Minnesota St. Paul Campus. Numerous crashes were reported across the metro area with I-94 closed at Highway 280 and also at White Bear Avenue. In a rare scene, television programming was interrupted to report on the snow situation. By early afternoon most of the snow had moved into Wisconsin and road conditions rapidly improved.

8 March 1892: A blizzard hit Minnesota, with 70-mph winds recorded at Easton. Duluth was hit especially hard with 60-mph winds causing large drifts. Residents were able to walk out of their second story windows.

March 9

9 March 1999: Light, fluffy snow piles up to 16 inches in the Twin Cities.  (Check -- Entry was dropped from recent version.  See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory .)

9 March 1918: A snowstorm hit Minnesota and dumped nearly 11 inches at the Twin Cities. 
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory

March 10

10 March 2012: The record high temperatures of 66 degrees at the Twin Cities on this date was the first of 8 record highs in a 10-day span.

10 March 1948: Bitterly cold conditions, especially for March, occured in Minnesota. A low temperature of -44 degrees was reported at Itasca.

March 11

11 March 2009: Cold conditions arrived, with a new record for the lowest maximum temperature in St. Cloud for this date. The high temperature in St. Cloud was only 4 degrees, which broke the previous record lowest maximum temperature of 5 degrees that was set in 1948.

11 March 1878: Lake Minnetonka became ice-free due to one of the warmest winters on record.

March 12

12 March 2009: The record low temperature for Minnesota for the month of March was set at -35 degrees at Embarrass and Babbit. St. Cloud also set a new daily record low of -15 degrees, breaking the previous record of -12 degrees that was set in 1956. The high temperature in St. Cloud was also only 11 degrees on this date, which also set a new record for the low maxium temperature. This broke the previous record low maxium temperature of 12 degrees that was set in 1896.

12 March 1990: The temperature at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport hit a record-setting high of 69 degrees.

March 13

13 March 2006: A March snowstorm dumped 9.9 inches at the Twin Cities.
See entry for day at http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history

13 March 1851: Before the spring green-up, dry grassy areas are a fire risk. On this date prairie fires blazed in Minnesota.

March 14

14 March 1943: Snow, sleet and ice crippled parts of Minnesota south of a line from Duluth through St. Cloud and Ortonville. The heaviest ice was in the vicinities of Lake Benton, Springfield and Windom. Ice thickness was 1/2 to 3/4 inch around St. Cloud to 3/4 to 2 inches in the Pipestone, Ruthton, Lake Wilson, Slayton and Tracy. A good description of the ice was submitted in one report: "…ice was 2 inches across and 1 3/4 inch deep on wire. A little frost ice near the wire with the outside solid ice. The ice was irregular in shape." Duluth had 6 inches of snowfall at the city office with 13 inches at the airport. The ice was confined to Moose Lake and south.

14 March 1870: A severe snow and wind storm moved across Minnesota and Iowa. The 'Northern Vindicator' of Estherville, Iowa became the first newspaper to use the term 'blizzard' on this date.

March 15

15 March 1941: The 'Ides of March Blizzard' occurred. Winds reached hurricane force at Twin Cities. 32 people died.
See also http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/blizzard-unexpectedly-hits-north-dakota-and-minnesota

March 16

16 March 1930: The temperature at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport topped out at a record high of 71 degrees.

March 17

17 March 2012: The temperature at Twin Cities hit 80 degrees, a new record for St. Patrick's Day and the warmest temperature during the warmest March on record. Amazingly, the high also reached 79 degrees on March 16, 18, and 19 this year.

17 March 1965: The Great St. Patrick's Day Blizzard hit northern Minnesota. Two feet of snow dumped at Duluth. 19 inches at Mora.
See entries for this date and following day at http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory

March 18

18 March 1968: The earliest tornado to hit Minnesota occurred on this date. No one was hurt when it hit Watonwan County. 

March 19

19 March 2012: This was the 4th day in a row that the Twin Cities reached at least 79 degrees, and the 8th record high in a 10-day span.

19 March 1977: An energy emergency finally ended in Minnesota. It was caused by the extended cold.

March 20

20 March 1991: An early season tornado hit Faribault County, traveling from Bricelyn to Wells.

March 21

21 March 1953: A tornado hit the northern St. Cloud area. High winds from thunderstorms were experienced from Martin to Stearns County.

March 22

22 March 1991: A historic ice storm began during the afternoon and ended with heavy, wet snow on the 23rd. This event coated the city of Duluth with as much as 6 inches of ice. The 850-foot WIDO TV tower was toppled. 4 million pine trees were damaged or destroyed with the heaviest damage at G.C. Andrews State Forest near Moose Lake in Pine County.
See entry for date from http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory

22 March 1952: A snowstorm dumped 13.2 inches on the Twin Cities.
See entry for date from http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory

March 23

23 March 1966: A snowstorm brought a foot of snow to southern Minnesota.
See entry for date on http://www.weather.gov/arx/ThisDayInHistory

March 24

24 March 1851: Minnesota experienced an early spring 'heat wave' with temperatures in the 60s and 70s common.

March 25

25 March 2007: Record warmth stretched from southern Minnesota to western Wisconsin with 72 degrees at Owatonna, 77 degrees at Menomonie, WI, and 80 degrees at Eau Claire, WI.

25 March 1981: An F2 tornado hit Morrison County and caused $25,000 worth of damage.

March 26

25 March 2012: This date is the record early ice-out date on Mille Lacs Lake.  At that time the period of record was 56 years   The previous record earliest ice-out date was 2 April 2000.
See http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/climate/journal/2012_ice_out_recap.html 
Note that this site has a "Recap of 2012 Ice Out" dates, with a listing of eight large lakes setting new date of occurrence records.

25 March 2007: High temperature records were shattered across much of central and southern Minnesota and west central Wisconsin. The following records were set: 69 degrees at Alexandria, 75 at Mankato, 77 at Little Falls, 79 at St. Cloud, 81 at Minneapolis-St. Paul and Eau Claire, 82 at Redwood Falls, and 83 at Springfield.

25 March 1991: A record high temperature of 76 degrees was set at Eau Claire.  (No longer -- see 2007 entry as record high temperature of 80 degrees was set in 2007 according to http://w2.weather.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=mpx. )

March 27

27 March 1946: A record high temperature of 78 degrees was set at Redwood Falls.

March 28

28 March 1924: A drought was broken with style in Southern Minnesota as 25 inches of snow fell. 

March 29

29 March 1986: Record warmth occurred with July-like temperatures. A monthly record high of 83 degrees was reached at the Twin Cities.

March 30

30 March 1938: Springtime flooding hit Warroad and Grand Marais. 

March 31

31 March 1896: A strong snowstorm dumped 13.5 inches of snow at Maple Plain. Vivid lightning was also in the storm with 10-12 flashes per minute. Visibility was down to less than one block. The high temperature was 57 degrees at Maple Plain the day before.

31 March 1843: The low temperature at Ft. Snelling plummeted to -11 degrees.

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This "Day in Weather History" contains memorable weather events for much of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Many sources were used to research and compile the data.
March 1
2002: On March 1, 2002, as a surface trough passed over Michigan's Upper Peninsula, northerly winds and arctic air moving across Lake Superior created heavy lake effect snow across the highlands of the Keweenaw Peninsula and over the higher terrain of northern Marquette and Alger counties. Phoenix reported 13 inches of snow in 24 hours, Big Bay and Wetmore reported 12 inches of snow, and Munising got 11.3 inches.
2005: On March 1, 2005, some higher terrain locations received heavy lake effect snow from February 28th into March 1st in the wake of a storm system tracking through the Lower Midwest. Snowfall totals included twelve-hour amounts of 15 inches at Rockland in Ontonagon County and 8 inches at Herman in Baraga County. 24-hour snowfall amounts included 14 inches at Ironwood in Gogebic County and 11 inches at the National Weather Service in Marquette.
2007: On March 1, 2007, a strong storm system originating over the southern Plains brought heavy snow and extensive blowing snow to much of Upper Michigan from the 1st continuing into the 3rd. Some rumbles of thunder even accompanied the system on the evening of the 1st...coincident with reports of freezing rain and sleet over Iron, Dickinson and Menominee counties. East wind gusts in excess of 50 mph produced blizzard or near-blizzard conditions at times mainly over the Keweenaw Peninsula and near the bay of Green Bay. Storm total snowfall exceeded 10 inches over all but south central portions of Upper Michigan. The National Weather Service office in Negaunee Township reported the most snow with 31 inches. Many school districts throughout Upper Michigan were closed on the 2nd as road plow crews worked steadily at clearing snow from roadways. Northern Michigan University, Michigan Tech University and Bay College in Delta County were also closed on the 2nd. Numerous streets and businesses in Houghton, including the Houghton County courthouse, were closed on the 2nd due to blizzard conditions. One-quarter inch of ice accumulation was reported on windshields 5 miles southwest of Iron River. Also, there were several reports of 5 inches of snow throughout Iron County during the evening. Observers reported 8 to 10 inches of snowfall in Hermansville from the 1st through the morning of the 2nd. Sleet mixing with snow caused numerous minor accidents in Menominee. Wind gusts over 40 mph also downed billboard signs and caused power outages in Menominee on the evening of the 1st. 
March 2
2007: On March 2, 2007, a strong storm system originating over the southern Plains brought heavy snow and extensive blowing snow to much of Upper Michigan from the 1st continuing into the 3rd. Some rumbles of thunder even accompanied the system on the evening of the 1st...coincident with reports of freezing rain and sleet over Iron, Dickinson and Menominee counties. East wind gusts in excess of 50 mph produced blizzard or near-blizzard conditions at times mainly over the Keweenaw Peninsula and near the bay of Green Bay. Storm total snowfall exceeded 10 inches over all but south central portions of Upper Michigan. 14 inches of snow fell in Paradise. The National Weather Service office in Negaunee Township reported the most snow with 31 inches. Many school districts throughout Upper Michigan were closed on the 2nd as road plow crews worked steadily at clearing snow from roadways. Northern Michigan University, Michigan Tech University and Bay College in Delta County were also closed on the 2nd. Numerous streets and businesses in Houghton, including the Houghton County courthouse, were closed on the 2nd due to blizzard conditions. Snowfall totals included sixteen inches in Ontonagon and ten inches in Mass City and Bruce Crossing. Gusty east wind to near 50 mph at times along the Ontonagon shoreline caused near-blizzard conditions during the evening of the 1st. Schools were closed in the Ontonagon area on the 2nd. Storm total snowfall of 14 inches was observed at Channing. Dickinson County law enforcement agencies reported a few minor accidents throughout the area. Most area schools were closed on the 2nd. Storm total snowfall amounts included 23 inches at Bessemer, 19 inches at Ironwood, 17 inches at Marenisco and 13 inches at Watersmeet. East winds gusting over 30 mph at times created snow drifts 3 to 4 feet high in some areas and caused frequent whiteout conditions from the afternoon of the 1st into the morning of the 2nd. Schools were closed throughout the Gogebic Range on the 2nd. Heavy snow combined with east winds gusting over 40 mph resulted in localized blizzard conditions on the evening of the 1st and morning of the 2nd. Highway US-2 was closed from Manistique to Escanaba due to limited visibility in blowing snow. The Cooks observer measured nine inches of snow in a 24-hour period ending on the morning of the 2nd. 
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March 3
2002: On March 3, 2002, record daily snowfall of 10.4 inches fell at WFO Marquette, part of a 19.8 inch snowstorm of the 2nd-3rd. A winter storm moved from the mid Mississippi River valley into the western Great Lakes region. The storm, combined with intense lake effect snow showers that followed, deposited varying amounts of snowfall across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Strong winds of 30 to 45 mph also created near blizzard condition across the area. Bessemer reported 10 inches of snowfall, and white out conditions were reported near Rockland. The National Weather Service Office measured 16 inches of new snow and Gwinn reported 10 inches. Shingleton, Wetmore and Traunik reported 12 to 14 inches of snowfall in 24 hours and 12 inches of new snow was reported in Luce County from Two Heart to Tahquamenon Park. Rock and Perkins received 10 inches of snowfall, and 10 to 12 inches of new snow fell over Schoolcraft County from Manistique north.
2003: On March 3, 2003, a deepening area of low pressure crossed Minnesota and northern Wisconsin during the afternoon entered Upper Michigan that evening. Light snow spread from west to east across the Upper Peninsula. Cold air moving over the open waters of Lake Michigan created conditions favorable for lake enhancement that afternoon and evening across eastern Delta County and southern Schoolcraft County. In addition, strong south winds brought local near-blizzard conditions to lakeshore areas along highway US-2 between Rapid River and Manistique with the combination of heavy snow and blowing snow. As the low moved east during the evening, winds shifted southwest by midnight ending the lake enhanced heavy snow. Nine inches of snow fell in 12 hours just north of Manistique. The Michigan State Police Post at Gladstone reported that the strong winds and blowing snow frequently produced visibilities of a quarter of a mile or less along Highway US-2 and lasted for nearly 5 hours.
2012: On March 3, 2012, a storm system moving through the Lower Great Lakes produced heavy snow mainly over portions of central and eastern Upper Michigan from the evening of the 2nd into the 4th. Storm total snowfall amounts over a 36-hour period ending on the morning of the 4th included 27.4 inches northeast of Ishpeming, 24.5 inches in Negaunee, and an estimated 27 inches at Little Lake. Storm total snowfall ending on the morning of the 4th included 24 inches near Shingleton and over 20 inches near Chatham and Munising. Snow fell over approximately a 36-hour period. North winds gusting to 40 mph also caused areas of blowing and drifting snow near Lake Superior. The observer in Herman measured 12.5 inches of storm total snowfall in less than 24 hours. A spotter in L'anse also reported six inches of snow in six hours on the morning of the 3rd along with blowing and drifting snow.
March 4
1985: On March 4, 1985, record daily snowfall of 21.1 inches fell at WFO Marquette, part of the 27.2 inches of snow that fell on the 4th and 5th.
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March 5
2004: On March 5, 2004, a low pressure system lifted northeast from the plains into the central Great Lakes, bringing abundant moisture from the Gulf of Mexico. Storm total snowfall reached as high as 15 inches at the Marquette NWS. Other reports include 14 inches at Wetmore, 13 inches at Gladstone, 12 inches at Bark River and Hardwood, 11 inches at Norway and Newberry, and 10 inches at Gwinn and at Thousand Island Lake. WFO Marquette set a record daily water equivalent of 1.86 inches from this snowstorm. Across Eastern Upper Michigan, six to ten inch accumulations were common, with the highest amounts in western Mackinac County near Naubinway.
March 6
1959: On March 6, 1959, the worst snowstorm since the blizzard of '39, a blizzard on the 5th-6th buried all of the U.P. with a foot or more of wind driven snow. Severe drifting closed most of Delta County roads. 50 vehicles were stranded along U.S. Highway 41 south of Marquette in Harvey.
2007: On March 6, 2007, fresh snow cover under clear skies and calm wind allowed temperatures to plummet to 20 below zero or colder over various interior locations of Upper Michigan. The minimum temperature plummeted to 28 degrees below zero at Herman.
1992: On March 6, 1992, baseball sized hail (2.75 inch) fell out of a severe thunderstorm 0.7 mile north northeast of Winona in Houghton County in the mid afternoon.
March 7
2005: On March 7, 2005, a potent storm system tracked across the Upper Great Lakes on the morning and early afternoon. A strong north wind, gusting to 40 mph at times, combined with 3 to 6 inches of lake enhanced snow to cause near-blizzard conditions across portions of west and central Upper Michigan. The extreme blowing and drifting of snow resulted in the emergency closures of Highway M-28 from just east of Marquette to Munising and Highway M-26 from Copper Harbor to Eagle Harbor. Poor visibility in blowing snow was also reported in Ontonagon County.
March 8
2002: On March 8, 2002, 9.1 inches of daily record snowfall fell at WFO Marquette, part of a snowstorm spread out over several days. An intense storm system developed over the central plains and strengthened as it moved toward the Western Great Lakes, spreading a mix of snow, sleet, freezing rain and even isolated thunderstorms over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Two inches of snow, sleet and ice fell on Iron Mountain. Ten to twelve inches of snow fell over the Ironwood area in 12 hours. Ontonagon and Bruce Crossing reported 12 to 14 inches of new snow. A combination of snow, sleet and ice covered the Escanaba area 2 to 3 inches deep. Freezing rain coated the Menominee area with 1/2 inch of ice. Watton reported 8 inches of new snow in 12 hours and downtown Baraga reported 12 inches. Downtown Marquette had a combination of snow and sleet. Phoenix reported 12 inches of snowfall, and Houghton and Calumet received 14 inches of snow in 12 hours.
March 9
2002: On March 9, 2002, between the 9th and 10th, a winter storm moving across Upper Michigan from the Rockies, coated Negaunee, Marquette, and Harvey with 1/4 to 1/2 inch of ice.
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2000: On March 9, 2000, after a week of record high temperatures, winter made a dramatic come back. A storm system that developed over the plains tracked from Iowa across Wisconsin and Lower Michigan Wednesday night and Thursday. As the low moved south of the Upper Peninsula, light rain on Wednesday night quickly turned to freezing rain and sleet and then to snow as cold air swept in on strong northeast winds behind the low. From a record high of 71 degrees on Wednesday, temperatures at Marquette's National Weather Service Office fell into the teens on Thursday with wind chill readings dropping as low as 20 below zero. Periods of heavy snow Thursday morning left up to a foot of new snow on the ground before diminishing to scattered flurries Thursday afternoon. Snowfall reports included 12 inches at Ironwood, 9 inches in Bruce Crossing, Kenton, Three Lakes and Ishpeming, and 8 inches in Negaunee and Gwinn. Wind gusts to 45 mph created near blizzard conditions at times in blowing and drifting snow with visibilities near zero. Many schools and businesses across west and central Upper Michigan were closed or delayed opening because of the storm. Fire fighters in Saint Ignace believe a bolt of lightning caused a fire at the Father Marquette Memorial Museum in Saint Ignace. The fire destroyed the building causing $150,000 in damage. The Museum honored Father Marquette, the man who founded Saint Ignace 300 years previous.
2011: On March 9, 2011, a low pressure system lifting up from the Plains brought moderate to heavy snow to portions of central and eastern Upper Michigan. The observer near Menominee measured seven inches of wet snow in 12 hours.
March 10
1885: On March 10, 1885, a low temperature of -10F occurred in Ishpeming.
2002: On March 10, 2002, a powerful winter storm brought freezing rain, sleet and rain over the U.P. Local flooding was reported on many roads due to snowmelt and rain. Storm force northwest winds occurred on Lake Superior with winds over 40 mph across much of the U.P. Blizzard conditions made driving almost impossible. Lake effect snow combined with the strong winds that gusted over 60 mph caused widespread whiteouts. Power outages occurred with downed power lines, and numerous minor traffic accidents were reported. Some roads were closed when snowplow crews could not keep up with the snow and blowing snow. A 1/4 inch of ice fell in Felch, Bark River, and over most of Iron, Alger and Schoolcraft Counties. A combination of sleet and freezing rain left an accumulation of ice varying from 1/4 to 1 1/2 inches thick in Menominee County. Newberry reported a 1/2 inch accumulation of ice from the freezing rain. Ironwood and Bessemer reported 8 inches of new snow in 12 hours. Rockland received 10 inches of snow in 24 hours, 11 inches of new snow fell in Herman. Ten inches of snowfall in 24 hours was measured at WFO Marquette with blizzard conditions reported over the west half of Marquette County. Seney reported 8 to 10 inches of snow with 2 to 3 foot drifts. Shingleton reported 9 inches of snow and Newberry 14 inches. High winds of 50 to 60 mph knocked down trees and power lines and caused blizzard conditions in Ontonagon, Houghton, Keweenaw, Marquette, Alger, Luce and Schoolcraft Counties. Some main highways were closed because of zero visibility and snow drifts blocking the road.
March 11
2009: On March 11, 2009, an intense low pressure system lifting northeast from the Plains brought a wintry mix of precipitation and strong winds to portions of Upper Michigan from the 10th into the 11th. Three to four inches of snow over 24 hours were reported by several observers across Alger county. Very strong winds gusting over 40 mph also accompanied the snow across much of the county. The Great Lakes Observing Station at Grand Marais measured a wind gust to 70 mph at 520 am on the morning of the 11th. Superior Central Schools were closed due to the harsh weather. The observer four miles east of Silver City measured eight inches of snow in 24 hours. Northwest winds gusting near 40 mph at times also caused considerable blowing of snow reducing visibility to one-quarter mile at times. Ontonagon Schools were closed due to the harsh winter weather. The observer at Twin Lakes reported six inches of snow in 12 hours. Northwest winds gusting at or above 40 mph also caused considerable blowing and drifting of snow throughout the county on the 11th. Visibility was reduced to one-quarter mile at times in snow and blowing snow at the Houghton County Airport and Houghton-Keweenaw County Schools were closed on the 11th.
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March 13
2006: On March 13, 2006, a low pressure system developing over the central Plains deepened rapidly as it moved across eastern Upper Michigan in the evening. As a result of this strong storm, intense convective snow and blizzard conditions enveloped much of west and north central Upper Michigan on the 13th and 14th. Higher terrain locations in Gogebic, Ontonagon, Houghton, Keweenaw, Baraga and Marquette Counties generally received one to two feet of snow in a 24-hour period. The greatest storm total accumulations included 33 inches in Rockland, 32 inches in Painesdale and 21 inches at the National Weather Service in Marquette. Embedded thunderstorms associated with the storm initially resulted in snowfall rates of one to two inches per hour at some locations on the 13th. Heavy sleet accumulations also occurred at Iron Mountain (one half-inch) and Two Heart in Luce County (one inch). The heavy wintry mix and blizzard conditions caused some road closures, numerous motor vehicle accidents and closed schools area wide, including Northern Michigan University in Marquette and Finlandia College in Houghton. Blizzard conditions resulted in plows being pulled off Highway 41 from Calumet to Mohawk during the evening of the 13th and early morning of the 14th. Power outages also occurred from strong winds downing trees on power lines. The county sheriff reported that the storm cancelled all activities across Ontonagon County.
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March 14
1997: On March 14, 1997, a pretty good snowstorm occurred in the U.P. A foot of snow fell in Escanaba and in the Iron Mountain area while WFO Marquette had a daily record snowfall of 26.2 inches of snow while the city of Marquette had 18 inches of snow and Big Bay had over 2 feet of snow. A strong low pressure system moved northeast through Iowa, southeast Wisconsin and northern Lower Michigan on the 14th and 15th. Heavy snow began on the afternoon of the 13th across south central Upper Michigan and overspread the entire region overnight. The snow continued until the morning of the 15th. Lake enhancement with northeast winds across Lake Superior, greatly increased snow totals over parts of northern Upper Michigan. The result was 32.4 inches of new snow at the Marquette County Airport. In a 24 hour period between 7 pm on the 13th and 7 pm on the 14th, the airport received 28 inches of snow, which broke the 24 hour snowfall record of 25.4 inches set on March 18-19, 1986.
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2006: On March 14, 2006, a low pressure system developing over the central Plains deepened rapidly as it moved across eastern Upper Michigan on the evening of the 13th. As a result of this strong storm, intense convective snow and blizzard conditions enveloped much of west and north central Upper Michigan on the 13th and 14th. Higher terrain locations in Gogebic, Ontonagon, Houghton, Keweenaw, Baraga and Marquette Counties generally received one to two feet of snow in a 24-hour period. The greatest storm total accumulations included 33 inches in Rockland, 32 inches in Painesdale and 21 inches at the National Weather Service in Marquette. Embedded thunderstorms associated with the storm initially resulted in snowfall rates of one to two inches per hour at some locations on the 13th. Heavy sleet accumulations also occurred at Iron Mountain (one half-inch) and Two Heart in Luce County (one inch). The heavy wintry mix and blizzard conditions caused some road closures, numerous motor vehicle accidents and closed schools area wide, including Northern Michigan University in Marquette and Finlandia College in Houghton. Blizzard conditions resulted in plows being pulled off Highway 41 from Calumet to Mohawk during the evening of the 13th and early morning of the 14th. Power outages also occurred from strong winds downing trees on power lines. The county sheriff reported that the storm cancelled all activities across Ontonagon County.
2004: On March 14, 2004, widespread snow fell overnight on the 13th and the early morning of the 14th as low pressure tracked across northern Lake Superior. The heaviest snowfall amounts were over south central and eastern Upper Michigan. Snowfall totals include 12 inches at Gladstone, 10 inches at Wetmore and Cooks, and 8 inches near Grand Marais and Perronville and at Gwinn, Channing and Newberry. A gusty southwest wind also resulted in extensive blowing and drifting snow, compounding the impact of this late winter storm.
1998: On March 14, 1998, cold air blowing across the relatively warmer waters of Lake Superior brought heavy lake effect snow to scattered locations across West and Central Upper Michigan. Snow totals included Ironwood 16.7 inches, Ramsay 13.5 inches, Paint Lake (25 NW of Iron River) 11.8 inches, Bergland 11.7 inches, Wetmore 11.0 inches, Rockland 9.4 inches, Marquette County Airport 9.4 inches and Silver City 9.0 inches.
March 15
1939: On March 15, 1939, the blizzard on March 14-15th produced 20 inches of snow in Republic, 19 inches in Marquette and Munising had 20 inches. Escanaba had 13 inches of snow. A 42 MPH gust was reported with the blizzard in Escanaba, a record wind gust for March.
2002: On March 15, 2002, 12.8 inches of daily record snowfall fell at WFO Marquette and a daily water equivalent was also set at 1.30 inches. A winter storm system that developed over the central plains tracked across central Lake Michigan and Lower Michigan and pulled moisture from the Gulf of Mexico north into Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Arctic air already in place and gusty northwest winds across Lake Superior, combined to enhance the snowfall. The snow was wet and heavy, causing hazardous driving conditions and made snow removal more difficult. Snowfall reports included 14 inches at Ironwood and Iron River, 12 inches in Ontonagon, 18 inches in Rockland. Houghton and Phoenix reported 12 inches of new snow. Baraga reported 16 inches. Deerton and Sagola got 10 inches and Grand Marais received 8 inches.
2000: On March 15, 2000, a storm system that developed over the Northern Plains moved quickly east across the Great Lakes region. The storm dropped 8 to 10 inches of snow on parts of west and north central Upper Michigan while the south and east received from 2 to 6 inches of new snow. Snowfall reports included 10 inches in Big Bay and Ironwood, 8 inches in Baraga, Ontonagon, Silver City, Paint Lake in northwest Iron County, Kenton and Two Heart. Estimates of around 8 inches of snowfall were reported near Grand Marais.
March 16
1941: On March 16, 1941, 20 people were stranded on ice on Lake Superior near Skanee near Point Abbaye when ice broke away from the shoreline with strong west winds. 2 men that were stranded when ice broke away near Point Abbaye in Lake Superior drifted 28 miles on to shore in Northern Baraga County from where they had been fishing in Lake Superior.
1997: On March 16, 1997, the big snowstorm wound down in the U.P. The storm produced a record snow depth of 63 inches at the Marquette County Airport which exceeded the previous record depth of 59 inches recorded on March 13, 1976. Other locations that exceeded 20 inches included Phoenix in Keweenaw County with 29 inches, Herman in Baraga County with 25 inches and Shingleton in Alger County with 21 inches. Other snow totals included...Munising 19.5 inches, L'Anse 16 inches, Pelkie 14 inches, Watton 12 inches, Bark River 13 inches, Ironwood 18 inches, Watersmeet 18 inches, Calumet 10 inches, Paint Lake 14 inches, Two Heart 18 inches, Champion 18 inches, Gwinn 15 inches, Bruce Crossing 16 inches.
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March 20
1885: On March 20, 1885, low temperatures of -28F were reported in mining districts of Marquette County.
March 21
1994: On March 21, 1994, the same storm that brought freezing rain to eastern Upper Michigan gave Marquette and Alger Counties seven to eight inches of snow. This was a lake enhanced, heavy snow storm. It resulted from the forced lifting of lake moistened northeast winds by hilly terrain over central Upper Michigan. While the freezing rain did not seem to cause too many problems, the heavy snow caused some power lines to come down, and that resulted in about 1,000 customers losing electrical power during the storm. Over eastern Upper Michigan, about 0.2 to 0.3 inches of ice accumulated on two to three inches of snow. Surprisingly, few accidents were reported with this event. 
March 22
2002: On March 22, 2002, an area of low pressure moved across Lower Michigan on the 21st. Heavy lake effect snow showers in the wake of the system brought up to 9 inches of snow to the Lake Superior snow belt of Chippewa County on the 22nd.
March 23
1993: On March 23, 1993, a low pressure system tracked east from central Illinois during the morning to eastern Ohio by the morning of the 24th. This resulted in freezing rain during the morning hours. Ice accumulations ranged from 0.2 to 0.4 inches over Baraga, Marquette, Alger, Delta, Mackinac, southern Schoolcraft Counties.
2009: On March 23, 2009, a tight pressure gradient between low pressure over the Plains and high pressure over Hudson Bay caused strong southeast wind gusts over portions of the Keweenaw Peninsula from the 23rd into the 24th. Freezing rain also developed over portions of northwest Upper Michigan during this same time. The observer in Mohawk measured one-quarter inch of freezing rain. The combination of the ice and southeast winds gusting near 40 mph toppled numerous trees on US-41 and M-26 between the towns of Phoenix, Central and Copper Harbor. Most of the trees were between 6 and 18 inches in diameter.
2011: On March 23, 2011, low pressure tracking eastward through the Lower Great Lakes brought significant heavy wet snow to south central Upper Michigan. With a strong high pressure system centered over Ontario providing very dry air across Lake Superior and northern Upper Michigan, there was a very sharp snowfall gradient between the heavy snow and no snow at all. The pressure difference across the area also resulted in gusty east winds. Storm total snowfall of 13 inches in about 12 hours was recorded in Wallace, MI. Other snowfall reports included 10 inches in Menominee and 8 inches in Carney. Winds gusting over 40 mph especially along the lake shore resulted in significant blowing and drifting snow and the closure of some roads along the lake in Menominee. School and government buildings were also closed for the day. The snowfall gradient was very sharp with areas north of US 2 seeing very little snowfall.
March 24
1979: On March 24, 1979, 20.4 inches of snow fell in Delaware in a blizzard.
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March 25
1979: On March 25, 1979, Marquette, Alger and Dickinson counties were brought to a standstill by a blizzard on the 24 and 25th with travel becoming impossible. Authorities were forced to close many roads in those counties. Marquette County airport in Negaunee township was forced to shut down for two days as winds gusted to 45 mph and Sawyer Air force Base reported wind gusts to 55 mph during the blizzard of March 24th-25th. The city of Marquette reported 18 inches of snow while WFO Marquette had 27 inches of snow from the March 24-25th blizzard.
1996: On March 25, 1996, low pressure moved northeast across Iowa during the evening of the 24th and over Wisconsin during the early morning of the 25th. The low then crossed Northern Lake Michigan and reached Sault Ste. Marie around 11 am EST on the 25th. Light snow developed over West Upper Michigan during the afternoon of the 24th and spread into North Central Upper Michigan and became heavy during the evening. Meanwhile, a mix of rain and freezing rain developed east of Marquette and Iron Mountain. Shortly after midnight on the 25th, north winds accelerated with frequent gusts above 40 mph. This caused whiteout conditions across much of West and North Central Upper Michigan for most of the day on the 25th. The whiteout conditions lead to a fatal traffic accident between 2 semi-trucks on Highway M28 in Matchwood Township 2 miles east of Bergland in Ontonagon County. The whiteouts also closed Highway M28 between Marquette and Munising during the afternnoon and evening of the 25th. The mixed precipitation east of Marquette and Iron Mountain changed to all snow between 7 and 10 am on the 25th, but the heavy snow was confined to the west half of Upper Michigan. The snow diminished to flurries during the evening of the 25th. Snow totals included 30 inches at Ontonagon, 28 inches at Rockland, 24 inches at Chassell and Ahmeek, 20 inches at L'anse, Watersmeet, Houghton and Ironwood, 18 inches at Silver City, Watton and Herman, 14 inches at Marquette and Iron River and 10 inches at Deerton and Champion.
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March 26
2007: On March 26, 2007, a low pressure trough interacting with a warm, moist and unstable airmass, produced a few severe thunderstorms over south central Upper Michigan. Many tree branches and a small tree downed and dime-sized hail (0.67 inch) was also reported with a severe thunderstorm 5 miles north of Escanaba early in the morning. A three-inch diameter tree limb was snapped off and was lying on County Road 374 just east of County Road 557 intersection 7 miles east of Carney. 1 inch hail (quarter sized) fell 2 Miles West North West of Naomikong Point in Whitefish Bay at 0005 EST.
March 27
1989: On March 27, 1989, 1.5-inch hail (ping pong ball sized) fell 1 mile east northeast of Sault Ste Marie in the St. Mary's River in the mid morning.
2012: On March 27, 2012, a low pressure system moving into northern Minnesota produced some freezing rain over portions of western Upper Michigan in the early morning hours. This same system then went on to generate damaging winds over portions of Marquette County during the day. The observer in Herman measured two-tenths of an inch of ice accumulation from freezing rain. The power was also knocked out at his residence. There was a public report in Calumet of nearly one-quarter inch of ice accumulation from freezing rain. South winds gusted between 50 and 60 mph at times from late morning into early afternoon in Marquette County. The strong winds did minor damage and downed several trees between 9 and 12 inches in diameter in the city of Marquette. The winds also downed two large maple trees in Skandia.
March 28
1920: On March 28, 1920, a small break occurred in the Manistique Dam after some logs piled up against it. A torrent of water soon poured into Manistique with flooding and rising water all day in the town. Traffic was finally halted by evening as the bridge was closed down.
2000: On March 28, 2000, a strong early spring storm strengthened as it moved from Wisconsin, across Upper Michigan, to eastern Lake Superior, where it stalled and weakened. Showers and an occasional rumble of thunder ahead of the storm center changed to snow as strong northwest winds behind the low pushed cold Canadian air across the U.P. The strong and gusty northwest winds caused considerable blowing and drifting snow. The combination of heavy wet snow and strong northwest winds of 25 to 35 mph with gusts to 45 mph caused scattered power outages over the western Upper Peninsula, and blowing and drifting snow was responsible for school closures and flight delays or cancellations at the Houghton County Airport. Snowfall reports included 8 inches at Calumet and Phoenix and 12 inches in Painesdale. The highway department reported 12 inches of new snow along highway M-26 southwest of Houghton. The snow started in the afternoon of the 27th and ended early in the morning on the 28th.
March 29
1920: On March 29, 1920, utility poles near the paper mill in Manistique collapsed which cut off electricity and water service to Manistique for 12 hours due to flooding.
2003: On March 29, 2003, intense low pressure from eastern Kansas moved across the Great Lakes region on the 27th and 28th. Abundant moisture ahead of the low overspread Upper Michigan, bringing periods of heavy snow to locations west of a line from Munising to Iron Mountain. The snow was wet and heavy, causing hazardous travel conditions and difficult clean-up and snow removal. Snowfall reports included 10 inches in Channing, Fortune Lake, and at the National Weather Service Office in Negaunee, 11 inches in Bessemer, 12 inches in Ontonagon, 14 inches in Baraga, 16 inches in Calumet and Mohawk, and 20 inches in Phoenix. The precipitation was a mix of rain and snow or mostly rain over the eastern parts of the Upper Peninsula and caused few problems.
1998: On March 29, 1998, a severe thunderstorm uprooted a 12 inch diameter tree near Foster City and 12 to 15 inch diameter trees were uprooted 4 miles northeast of Watson in the late evening. 
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March 30
2004: On March 30, 2004, the Pine River near Rudyard in Chippewa County flooded due to an ice jam between Mackinac Trail and I-75. A river stage of 19.3 feet was observed at Mackinac Trail, which established a new flood of record. The old flood of record was 18.4 feet on March 30, 1986. The river submerged the Prairie Road bridge west of Rudyard, along with several other roads and yards in the vicinity. Flooding also occurred in the Pickford area, where the Munuscong River rose out of its banks.
March 31
2010: On March 31, 2010, the warmest, driest and least snowy March for climate records ever occurred at NWS office in Negaunee. 0.28 inch of precipitation fell, 0.3 inch of snow and an average temperature of 34.7 degrees was 10.1 degrees above normal. March ended this day with a record high temperature of 70F at WFO Marquette, the second time ever recorded of 70 degrees or more in March. Other time of 70F or greater was March 8, 2000 with 71F.
1963: On March 31, 1963, Ontonagon had a high temperature of 71F which caused heavy runoff from melting snow. This met with a solid icepack on Lake Superior and river ice began to break apart. This began the flooding that followed the next day.
1985: On March 31, 1985, WFO Marquette had a daily record snowfall of 18.5 inches. A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 73 mph 1 miles southwest of Sault Ste Marie in the mid afternoon.
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"This Day in Weather History" contains come memorable weather events and trivia across southeast Minnesota, northeast Iowa and southwest into central Wisconsin. Many sources were used to research and compile the data.
March 1
1987: A snow storm deposited these snow totals: In IA: Waucoma (7.5"), Decorah (6"), Dorchester (6"), New Hampton (6"), Waukon (6").In MN: Lanesboro (7"), Spring Grove (7"), Caledonia (6"), Grand Meadow (6"), Harmony(6"), Preston (6").In WI: Trempealeau (9"), Dodge (7"), Galesville (7"), Hokah (7"), Goodrich (6"), Hatfield(6"), Jump River (6"), Mondovi (6").
1984: Lake City, MN (6") snow..
1965: New Hampton, IA (7.5") snow.
1962: The following locations had their coldest March temperatures: In IA: Decorah (-33), Fayette (-33), Charles City (-32), Guttenberg (-30), Cresco (-29), Oelwein (-27), Osage (-27), Waukon (-21). In MN: Preston (-35), Austin (-34), Grand Meadow (-31), Rochester (-31). In WI: Medford (- 40), Necedah (- 40), Neillsville (-39), Dodge (-38), Hillsboro (-38), Mather (-37), Owen (-36), Viroqua (-35), Lynxville (-34), Mondovi (-34), Blair (-33), Prairie du Chien (-33), Trempealeau (-32), Genoa (-31), Richland Center (-30), Sparta (-30), La Crosse (-28), Alma (-27), Platteville (-27), Lancaster (-22).
1958: Jump River, WI (6") snow.
1951: Owen, WI (8"), Alma, WI (6"), Grand Meadow, MN (6"), Jump River, WI (6"), Neillsville, WI (6"), and Osage, IA (6") snow.
1932: La Crosse (7.4") snow. The snow began to fall during the early morning hours of the 1st and continued through the early morning hours of the 2nd. The snow mixed with sleet during the evening of the 1st. 
March 2
2007: The second major winter storm in less than a week took aim affecting the area in 2007, and delivered two rounds of winter precipitation. The storm took shape over the southern Plains states Wednesday February 28th and then started to move northeast toward the area. As it did, the first round of precipitation moved into the region that afternoon. Light to moderate snow fell through Wednesday night with totals ranging from just a trace to around 3 inches. As the storm moved into Missouri Thursday March 1st, dry air began to wrap into the system and the precipitation become more scattered across the immediate region while a heavy snow band set up from eastern Nebraska into southwest and south central Minnesota. Along with the dry air, warm air aloft also spread over the area which created a mixed bag of winter precipitation. Light rain was common across parts of northeast Iowa into southwest Wisconsin where temperatures warmed above freezing. Farther north, temperatures remained below freezing setting the stage for snow, sleet and freezing rain to fall. Ice accumulations of 1/8 to 1/4 of an inch were reported from Wabasha and Winona counties in Minnesota and across parts of Trempealeau, Clark, Monroe and Adams counties in western and central Wisconsin. Temperatures once again fell below freezing across the entire area Thursday night as the low slowly moved northeast into southern Wisconsin. This allowed all the precipitation to change back over to snow and some of this was quite heavy from southeast Minnesota into north central Wisconsin. Some snow totals from the storm: In IA: McIntire (10.0), Spillville (8.5), New Hampton (8.0), Osage (7.1), Cresco (7.0), Elma (7.0). In MN: Claremont (11.5), Byron (11.2), Oronoco (11.1), Mantorville (11.0), Rochester (10.7), Byron (10.4), Spring Valley (10.0), Grand Meadow (9.9), Theilman (9.7), Dodge Center (9.0), Zumbro Falls (8.9), Spring Grove (8.5), Elgin (8.3), Preston (7.8), Caledonia (7.0), Wabasha (7.0). In WI: Mondovi (11.0), Independence (9.0), Owen (8.3), Warrens (8.0), Galesville (7.0), Osseo (7.0).
See entry for day at http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
2002: The very mild 2001-2002 winter led to a new record for the latest sub-zero temperature at La Crosse. Temperatures did not drop below zero until this date for the entire winter. In addition, a new record was set for the longest string of above zero temperatures. The record was set from March 1st , 2001 to March 2nd , 2002 for a total of 366 days.
1989: Hokah, MN (6") snow.
1972: Caledonia, MN (6"), Hatfield, WI (6"), and Trempealeau, WI (6") snow.
1948: Richland Center, WI (7.5"), Fayette, IA (7"), and New Hampton, IA (6") snow.
March 3
1989: The following snowfall fell in these locations: In IA: Osage (6"). In MN: Winona (9.5"), Harmony (8"), Hokah (7"), Elgin (6.4"), Austin (6"), Grand Meadow (6"). In WI: Jump River (12"), Necedah (10"), La Crosse (7.5"), Mondovi (7.5").
1985: Rochester, MN (9") and Winona, MN (8.5") snow.
1977: Jump River, WI (7"), and Lake City, MN (6"), and Mondovi, WI (6") snow.
See entry for day in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory

1951: Theilman, MN (9.3"), Winona, MN (7"), Alma, WI (6"), Mather, WI (6"), and Mondovi, WI (6") snow.
1923: A mix of rain and snow began during the afternoon at La Crosse and then changed to heavy snow during the evening. The snow continued until about 2 AM on the 4th. La Crosse, WI (8.8") snow.
1900: New Hampton, IA (6") snow.
March 4
1992: Genoa, WI (1.70", wettest March day).
1989: A snow storm brought these snow totals: In IA: Waucoma (7"), Caledonia (6"), Cresco (6"). In MN: Wabasha (7.5"), Harmony, MN (7"), Grand Meadow (6"), Theilman (1.78", wettest March day). In WI: Mather (10"), Owen (10"), Goodrich (9"), Alma (8"), Hatfield (8"), Neillsville (7").
1985: A snow storm deposited snowfall totals ranging from: In IA: Dorchester (6"). In MN: Elgin (8.5"), Grand Meadow (7"), Zumbro Falls (7"), Wabasha (6.5"), Austin (6"), Caledonia (6"), Lanesboro (6"). In WI: Alma (12"), Hatfield (11"), Jump River (10"), Neillsville (9"), Goodrich (8.5"), Owen (8"), Sparta (8"), Galesville (6.5"), Mauston (6"), Mondovi (6").
See entry for date at http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
1982: Platteville, WI (6.6") and Lancaster, WI (6") snow.
1972: Snow totals for this date ranged from: In MN: Winona (7"), Theilman (6.5"), Minnesota City (6"), Wabasha (6").In WI: Curtiss (9"), Neillsville (8"), Jump River (6.2"), Hatfield (6"), Owen (6"), Trempealeau(6"), Viroqua (6").
1962: A snow storm brought these totals to the area: In IA: Decorah (6"). In MN: Preston (10"), Lake City (8"), Lanesboro, (8"), Winona (8"), Austin (6"), Grand Meadow (6"). In WI: La Crosse (7.5"), Galesville (7.4"), Viroqua (7"), Prairie du Chien (6").
1924: Viroqua, WI (9") snow. Oelwein, IA (2.16" liquid equivalent, wettest March day).
1920: Snow began during the morning of the 3rd and continued into the late morning of the 4th. The heaviest snow fell between 7:30 PM and 9:30 PM. In the La Crosse area, 6" of snow fell and northwest winds caused considerable drifting and delayed trains. 
March 5
2013: A potent storm system dropped out of the Dakotas and into the Ohio Valley March 4th and 5th. Initially the snow impacted mainly northeast IA and southeast MN during the morning of the 4th, but a second round of snow brought heavier accumulations starting the evening of March 4th, continuing through Wednesday the 5th. The first round brought 1-3" to areas mainly west of the Mississippi River. The second round was heavier and more widespread, with additional 4 to 8" amounts - isolated 10 to 12". Snowfall totals from the 2-days, in IA: Edgewood(6.5"), Elkader(6.5"), Kendallville(6.5"), Decorah(6"). In MN: Readstown(10"), Spring Valley(9.8"), Theilman(9.5"), Stewartville(9.3"), Winona(9"), Rochester(8.7"), Grand Meadow(8.5"), Hatfield(8.5"), Altura(8"), Lake City(8"), Minnesota City(8"), Zumbro Falls(8"), Wabasha(7.5"), Elgin(7.4"), Byron(7"), Mantorville(7"), La Crescent(6.6"), Preston(6.6"). In WI: Alma(11.1"), Warrens(9"), Black River Falls(8"), Richland Center(8"), La Crosse(7.8"), Mondovi(7.3"), Osseo(7.2"), Centerville(7.1"), Genoa(7"), Ettrick(6.8"), Glimanton(6.5"), Holmen(6.4"), West Salem(6.4"), Cassville(6"), Desoto(6"), Lancaster(6"), Onalaska (6").
2006: Snow totals on this day:In IA: Dorchester (7.3").In MN: Reno (7.1"), Caledonia (7.0"), Preston (6.0").In WI: Coon Valley (7.7"), Leon (7.7"), Ontario (7.0"), Readstown (6.9"), Gays Mills (6.5"), Mather (6.5"), Viroqua (6.3"), Stoddard (6.2"), Hillsboro (6.0").
2000: La Crosse, WI (70) high temperature. This was the earliest 70 degree reading in La Crosse.
1985: Cashton, WI (8") snow.
1984: Zumbro Falls, MN (8"), Jump River, WI (6.5"), Alma, WI (6"), and Wabasha, MN (6") snow.
1976: Dodge, WI (6"), Hatfield, WI (6"), and Muscoda, WI (6") snow.
1972: Curtiss, WI (6").
1963: Elkader, IA (10"), New Hampton, IA (8"), Spring Grove, MN (6.5"), and Richland Center, WI (6") snow.
1962: Osage, IA (6") snow.
1959: Snow totals for this date amounted to: In IA: Elkader (12"), Oelwein (10"). In MN: Spring Grove (11"), Preston (8"). In WI: Necedah (13"), Cashton (11.5"), La Crosse (10"), Richland Center (10"), Westby (10"), Mauston (8"), Sparta (8"), Platteville (7"). 
March 6
6 March 2017: An EF-1 tornado traveled nearly three miles across La Crosse County, passing to the north of Barre Mills.  Winds surrounding the tornado were estimated to have reached 100 to 110 mph.  
This tornado was one of the earliest recorded tornadoes of the spring season to strike Wisconsin. (Check this)

1995: A well-anticipated late winter snowstorm began on this date and continued into the 7th. It affected a wide swath from southwest to northeast Wisconsin. Some totals: In WI: Arcadia (10"), Friendship (10"), Viroqua (7.5"), La Crosse (7.1"), Prairie du Chien (7"). In MN: Winona (9"), Austin (8.5").
1963: A snow storm dropped snow totaling: In IA: Fayette (10.5"), Waucoma (10"), Charles City (9.5"), Lansing (9"), Decorah (7"), Waukon (7"), Cresco (6").In MN: Caledonia (10"), La Crescent (8.5"), Winona (7.5"), Lanesboro (6.5"). In WI: Prairie du Chien (12"), Lynxville (10"), Mather (9.5"), Hatfield (9"), Hillsboro (9"), Mauston (9"), Sparta (8.5"), Viroqua (8"), Trempealeau (7.4"), Genoa (7"), Lancaster (7"), Dodge (6.5"), Muscoda (6"), Necedah (6").
1961: Preston, MN (6") snow.
1959: A very potent snow storm dropped record snow falls totaling:In IA: Fayette (21", greatest one-day snowfall), Cresco (14", greatest one-day snowfall, tying with 11/19/1957), Lansing (14", greatest one-day snowfall), Waucoma (14"), Decorah(13"), Osage (10.5"; 2.07" liquid equivalent, wettest March day), Dorchester (10"), Waukon (9"), Charles City (8.3"), Oelwein (6").In MN: (16", greatest one-day snowfall, tied with 1/4/1971 and 3/14/1997), Harmony (14"), Lanesboro (12"), Winona (11"), Grand Meadow (8"), La Crescent Spring Grove (6.5").In WI: Hatfield (20", greatest one-day snowfall), Prairie du Chien (16", greatest one-daysnowfall), Readstown (16", greatest one-day snowfall), Mather (15"), Muscoda (15"), Neillsville (15", greatest one-day snowfall), Viroqua (15"), Lynxville (14", greatest one-daysnowfall), Galesville (13"), Lancaster (13", tied 1/3/1986 for their snowiest day), Necedah(13"), Trempealeau (12.3"), Dodge (12"), Sparta (12"), Westby (12"), Genoa (11"), Curtiss(10"), Goodrich (10"), Mauston (7"), Platteville (6"), Cashton (6.1"). Sparta (31" of snowon the ground).
1958: Lancaster, WI (6") snow.
1948: Fayette, IA (8"), New Hampton, IA (8"), and Winona, MN (6") snow.
1944: New Hampton, IA (7") snow.
March 7
2000: La Crosse, WI (82) high temperature. This was earliest 80-degree reading in La Crosse.
1998: Oelwein, IA (10") snow.
1995: A winter storm brought snows totaling: In IA: New Hampton (10"), Cresco (9"), Osage (8.5"), Lansing (8.2"), Waucoma (8"), Marble Rock (7.7"), Charles City (7.5"), Postville (7"), Dorchester (6.2"), Waukon (6"). In MN: Grand Meadow (10.5"), Lanesboro (9.5"), Preston (9.5"), Minnesota City (9"), Harmony (8"), Spring Grove (8"), La Crescent (7.5"), Caledonia (6"). In WI: Alma (7"), Mauston (6"), Neillsville (8"), Prairie du Chien (7"), Richland Center (6"), Mather (8"), Lancaster (6"), Trempealeau (6.5"), Sparta (8"), Steuben (6"), Gays Mills (7"), Ontario (7"), Galesville (6"), La Farge (8"), Hokah (6.8"), Westby (7.2"), Lynxville (6.5").
1975: A winter storm dropped snow in the amounts of: In IA: New Hampton (8"), Waucoma (7"), Charles City (6"), Decorah (6"), Dorchester (6"), Elkader (6"), Fayette (6"), Lancaster (6"), Osage (6"). In WI: Lynxville (7.5"), Muscoda (6"), Prairie du Chien (6").
1963: Harmony, MN (8") snow.
1961: Hatfield, WI (6") snow.
1959: 22.7" of snow fell (3.57" liquid equivalent) in Caledonia, MN making it their snowiest day on record and their wettest March day. This also increased their snow depth to 37" which is the greatest ever recorded.
1956: Hatfield, WI (9"), Spring Grove, MN (6.8"), La Crosse, WI (6.7"), Harmony, MN (6.5"), Gays Mills, WI (6"), New Hampton, IA (6"), and Richland Center, WI (6") snow.
1948: Winona, MN (6") snow.
1935: Fayette, IA (7") snow.
1934: Grand Meadow, MN (9") snow.
March 8
1999: A strong low pressure system marched out of the Rockies and into the central Great Plains. The center of this winter storm tracked across central Iowa and Illinois, sending bands of snow as far north as central Wisconsin. Buffalo, Crawford, Grant, Jackson, Richland, and Trempealeau Counties in southwest Wisconsin received 6-10" of snow between 8 AM on the 8th and 4 AM on the 9th. Strong southeast winds gusting to 40 mph caused considerable blowing and drifting, with drifts in some places 3-4 feet high. Osage, IA (6") and Waucoma, IA (6") snow.
1998: A winter storm affected Adams, Crawford, Grant, Juneau, Richland, and Vernon Counties in southwest and central Wisconsin from 5 AM to 8 PM. Between 6-12" of snow was common with amounts up to 14" in areas along and south of the Wisconsin River. The deep snow, combined with strong north winds, created 3 foot drifts and reduced visibility to near zero at times. Some snowfall reports in WI: Muscoda (9.2"), Readstown (9"), Ontario (6"), Viroqua (6").
1967: Theilman, MN (-28, coldest March temperature).
1961: A winter storm brought snowfall totals ranging from: In IA: Elkader (20", greatest one-day snowfall), Fayette (17"), Waucoma (15", greatest one-day snowfall), Charles City (12"), Decorah (11"), New Hampton (10"), Waukon (10"), Dorchester (9.2"), Oelwein (9"), Cresco (7"). In MN: Spring Grove (14.5"), Harmony (14"), Lanesboro (12"), Preston (12"), Grand Meadow (10"), Austin (9"), Elgin (7"), Rochester (6.6"), Theilman (6.4"), Caledonia (6"), Winona (6"). In WI: Prairie du Chien (14"), Platteville (13"), Lancaster (10"), La Crosse (8.5"), Richland Center (8"), Westby (8"), Mauston (7"), Sparta (6.4"), Galesville (6.2"), Alma (6"), Dodge (6"), Genoa (6"), Lynxville (6"), Muscoda (6"), Necedah (6"), Readstown (6"), Trempealeau (6").
1956: Waukon, IA (9") and Mather, WI (6") snow.
1946: Snow began falling during the afternoon of the 7th and continued through the late afternoon of the 8th. North winds of 15 to 25 mph caused some blowing and drifting of the snow. This was especially true on the ridges along the Mississippi river. Some snow totals: Fayette, IA (6.4"), La Crosse, WI (6"), New Hampton, IA (6"), Viroqua, WI (6").
1907: Grand Meadow, MN (83, warmest March day).
March 9
2002: After a very quiet and mild winter, a late season blizzard hit parts of the region. Winds were sustained at 30-40 mph with gusts around 50 mph. This caused whiteout conditions, especially across northeast Iowa and southeast Minnesota. There were numerous accidents, one of which ended up with a fatality in Byron, MN. Some roads were closed due to snow and ice, including a part of I-90.
1999: A winter storm brought the following snow amounts to the area: In IA: Cresco (6"). In MN: Wabasha (10"), Dodge Center (9"), Grand Meadow (8"), Strawberry Point (7"), Preston (6.8"), Lanesboro (6"). In WI: Alma (12"), Cashton (8.5"), Mondovi (7.2"), Trempealeau (7"), Muscoda (6.2"), Cuba City (6"), Galesville (6"), Mather (6").
1998: Snowfall fell bringing totals ranging from: In IA: Fayette (9.2"), New Hampton (8"), Elkader (7"). In WI: Mauston (12"), Richland Center (10"), Platteville (9"), Gays Mills (8"), Hillsboro (8"), Lynxville (8"), La Farge (7"), Prairie du Chien (7"), Westby (6").
1992: La Crosse, WI (1.58", water equivalent, wettest March day). Preston, MN (1.52", water equivalent, wettest March day). Jump River, WI (8") and Goodrich, WI (7") snow.
1961: Osage, IA (9"), Hatfield, WI (8"), Mather, WI (8"), Genoa, WI (6"), Harmony, MN(6"), Hillsboro, WI (6"), Lansing, IA (6"), and Lynxville, WI (6") snow.
1957: Grand Meadow, MN (8") snow.
1943: New Hampton, IA (7") snow.
1918: Medford, WI (1.80", wettest March day).
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
1909: A snow storm that began during the evening of the 8th continued into the 9th across southeast Minnesota, northeast Iowa, and southwest and central Wisconsin. Between noon and 2:30 PM, the snow fell at a rate of over an inch per hour in the La Crosse, WI area. Some storm totals: La Crosse, WI (13.7"), New Hampton, IA (11"), Mason City, IA (10.7"), Fayette, IA (7"), Viroqua, WI (7"), Waterloo, IA (7"). 
March 10
2013: A winter storm brought heavy snow to the region, with 7-12" common from the Mason City, IA through Rochester, MN and into north central WI. The band of snow lingered the longest in these areas, well into Monday, March 11th. Much lighter snowfall was reported south and east of this area, with hardly anything in far southwest WI. It was a very wet and heavy snow. Snow in IA: Osage (11"), St Ansgar (10.2"), Riceville (9.3"), Charles City (8.4"), Kendallville (7.6"), Elma (6.2"). In MN: Spring Valley (12.5"), Harmony (11.5"), Stockton (10.5"), Minnesota City (10.3"), Chatfield (10"), Spring Valley (10"), Dodge Center (9"), Preston (9"), Rushford (9"), Rochester (8.7"), Lanesboro (8.2"), Kellogg (7.5"), Grand Meadow (7.3"), Mantorville (7"), Winona (7"), Reads Landing (6.8"), Claremont (6.7"), Oronoco (6.7"), Plainview (6.5"), Wabasha (6.1"). In WI: Longwood (10.5"), Medford (8"), Osseo (7.5"), Arcadia (7"), Whitehall (7"), Cochrane (6.5"), Merrillan (6").
1993: Neillsville, WI (8"), Mather, WI (7"), Mauston, WI (6"), and Sparta, WI (6") snow.
1980: Lanesboro, MN (6") snow.
1956: Rochester (10.8", snowiest March day), Elgin, MN (10"), and La Crosse, WI (8") snow.
1956: Rochester, MN (10.8") and Austin, MN (10") snow.
1943: Viroqua, WI (11") snow.
1876: An F3 tornado moved east-northeast across Hazel Green, WI (Grant County) destroying a large part of the town. Parts of a church steeple were carried more than 3 miles. Several people were "crushed beyond recognition" in their homes. Two children were carried 400 yards and set down. They were badly bruised, but they were alive. It was reported that two horses were carried to a height of 60 feet and set down 600 yards from their barn "unbruised but stone dead 20 feet apart". The village hearse was "carried off" and a coffin handle was found eight miles to the northeast. Southwest of Hazel Green"a furrow 600 feet long, 4 feet wide, and several feet deep was plowed." Newspapers reported that "Hazel Green will never be resurrected, 23 homes (were) ground finer than grist from the mills of the Gods." During the 3 years prior, Hazel Green had weathered several damaging wind storms, a nitro-glycerine explosion, and a plague of scarlet fever.
March 11
2001: A winter storm began to spread heavy snow across the area late on the 11th and continued through the afternoon of the 12th. Widespread snowfall amounts of 6-10" were reported. At least one building collapsed due to the weight of the heavy snow. Spring Valley, MN (11") and Whitehall, WI (11") snow.
1985: Jump River, WI (6.3") snow.
1973: Jump River, WI (1.68"), Owen, WI (1.62", wettest March day), Goodrich, WI (1.57") rain.
1962: Austin, MN (8.3"), Elkader, IA (8.0"), Lake City, MN (7"), Elgin, MN (6.2"), Mondovi, WI (6").
1956: A winter storm brought snowfall totaling: In IA: Cresco (10"), Osage (10"), Decorah (6"), Dorchester (6"), Lansing (6"). In MN: Winona (14"), Grand Meadow (9"), La Crescent (9"), Lake City (8"), Lanesboro (8"), Spring Grove (7.5"), Caledonia (7"). In WI: Hatfield (17"), Alma (12"), Neillsville (10"), Viroqua (10"), Trempealeau (9"), Cashton (8"), Hillsboro (8"), La Crosse (7.5"), Dodge (7"), Mather (6"), Necedah (6"), Prairie du Chien (6"), Readstown (6").
1951: Charles City, IA (10.8") and Cresco, IA (7") snow.
1950: A winter storm dropped these snow amounts: In IA: Decorah (8.5"), Elkader (8"), Lansing (8"), New Hampton (8"), Oelwein (8"), Cresco (6.5"), Fayette (6") Osage (6"). In WI: Muscoda (12"), Lynxville (10"), Steuben (8.3"), Gays Mills (8"), Prairie du Chien (7.3"), Lancaster (7"), Viroqua (6").
1948: New Hampton, IA (-25, coldest March temperature).
1941: Snow began falling during the late evening of the 9th and continued to fall through the early morning of the 12th. Viroqua, WI (10.5"), La Crosse, WI (8.2"), and Fayette, IA (7.5") snow. 
March 12
2001:  The last winter storm of the season brought heavy snow to southwest and central Wisconsin. This forced the closure of schools and businesses. Snowfall amounts of 6-10" were common. Law enforcement officials in Whitehall reported 11" and a cooperative observer near La Crosse Regional Airport reported 7.5". Other reports: In MN: Winona (10.5"), Hokah (10"), Rochester (8.6"), Preston (7.1"), Lanesboro (7"), Elgin (6.5"), Austin (6"), Grand Meadow (6"). In WI: Mondovi (11"), Galesville (8"), Blair (7"), Jump River (6"), Trempealeau (6").
1997: Elgin, MN (18", greatest one-day snowfall) and Theilman, MN (8") snow.
1991: Oelwein, IA (6.5") snow.
1965: Hatfield, WI (6") and Lake City, MN (6") snow.
1962: A winter storm brought snowfall totals of: In IA: Cresco (7"), New Hampton (6"). In MN: Grand Meadow (9"), Harmony (7.2"), Theilman (6.7"), Caledonia (6"), Lanesboro (6"). In WI: Mather (11"), Neillsville (10"), Goodrich (7"), Jump River (7"), Owen (6").
1951: A snow storm brought record snows to parts of the area: In IA: New Hampton (18", greatest one-day snowfall), Elkader (16"), Osage (13", greatest one-day snowfall), Fayette (11"), Decorah (8"). In MN: Grand Meadow (7"). In WI: Prairie du Chien (9.5"), Lynxville (9"), Steuben (7.3"), Gays Mills (6").
1923: Fayette, IA (6") snow.
March 13
1997: What might be the most significant spring snow storm on record was centered on this day. A total of 19.1" fell on La Crosse from the 12th through the 14th, with 14.3" falling on the 13th. This was the highest one-day snowfall for March and the 2nd highest one-day snowfall total ever recorded. In Rochester, 10.5" of snow fell on the 13th, with a total of 13.3" for the 3 days. Many rural roads were blocked as drifts reached as much as 6 feet high. Other totals from that day ranged from: In MN: Winona (11"), Austin (8"). In WI: Viroqua (17", greatest one-day snowfall), Cashton (9"), Hillsboro (8"), Galesville (6"), Gays Mills (6"), La Farge (6"), Mauston (6"), Mather (6"), Ontario (6").
1991: Elkader, IA (8"), Lancaster, WI (7.5"), Platteville, WI (6.9"), Prairie du Chien, WI(6"), Waucoma, IA (6").
1980: Cresco, IA (6"), Preston, MN (6"), and Minnesota City, MN (6") snow.
1954: Jump River, WI (10"), Alma, WI (7"), and Hatfield, WI (6") snow.
1952: Cresco, IA (6") and Gays Mills, WI (6") snow.
1951: Mauston, WI (6.7") and Minnesota City, MN (6").
1940: Snow began falling during the evening of the 12th and continued through the morning hours of the 14th. Totals ranged from: Grand Meadow, MN (9"), La Crosse, WI (8.6"), New Hampton, IA (8"), Winona, MN (8").
1925: La Crosse, WI (9") snow.
March 14
1997: A storm produced snow totaling: In MN: La Crescent (16", tied with 3/6/1959 and 1/4/1971 for greatest one-day snowfall), Minnesota City (16", greatest one-day snowfall), Hokah (12.1"), Caledonia (12"), Grand Meadow (10"), Lanesboro (10"), Preston (9.2"), Spring Grove (9"), Winona (6"). In WI: Mather (16"), Galesville (15", greatest one-day snowfall), Sparta (15"), Trempealeau (15"), Genoa (12"), Mauston (12"), Neillsville (12"), Alma (10"), Ontario (10"), Hillsboro (9"), La Farge (9"), Cashton (8"), Readstown (8"), Goodrich (7.6"), Owen (6.5"), Mondovi (6").
See day's entry for http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
1990: Both Cresco, IA (1.91") and Hatfield, WI (2.05") had their wettest March day.
1975: A strong arctic cold front moved through central Wisconsin. In Jump River, WI, the temperature fell from a high temperature of 37 to -20 by the end of the day. This 57 degree difference between the high and low temperature tied 2/13/1971 and 9/11/1976 for Jump Rivers' greatest diurnal temperature change.
1959: La Crosse, WI (6.5") snow.
1951: Minnesota City, MN (6") snow.
1918: La Crosse, WI (7.4") snow.
1913: Both Neillsville, WI (2.10") and Viroqua, WI (2.37") had their wettest March day.
1905: Fayette, IA (8") snow.
1904: Fayette, IA (6") and Viroqua, WI (6") snow.
March 15
1959: a winter storm dropped snow amounting to: In IA: New Hampton (12.5"), Cresco (12"), Dorchester (10"), Fayette (10"), Decorah (9"), Charles City (8"), Osage (8"), Waucoma (7"), Elkader (6"). In MN: Caledonia (10.4"), La Crescent (9"), Spring Grove (9"), Lanesboro (8"), Harmony (7"). In WI: Viroqua (11"), Platteville (8"), Westby (8"), La Crosse (7.5"), Lancaster (6"), Mather (6"), Mauston (6"), Muscoda (6"), Readstown (6"), Richland Center (6"), Sparta (6"), Trempealeau (6").
1923: New Hampton, IA (6.8") and La Crosse, WI (6.2") snow. 
March 16
1983: Zumbro Falls, MN (8"), Jump River, WI (6.3"), and Wabasha, MN (6") snow.
1965: Dorchester, IA (6.1") snow.
March 17
1989: Mather, WI (6") and Mondovi, WI (6") snow.
1965: Mauston, WI (8"), Richland Center, WI (8"), Cashton, WI (7.5"), Spring Grove, MN (7.5"), Platteville, WI (7.3"), Elgin, MN (6"), Mondovi, WI (6"), Prairie du Chien, WI (6"), and Preston, MN (6") snow.
See entry for this date at http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory and for following day on this site. 
1942: Grand Meadow, MN (11") snow.
March 18
2005: A slow moving area of low pressure tracked across central Iowa into central Illinois on March 18th and 19th bringing prolonged heavy snow to much of the region. Snowfall totaled 2 feet in some areas of southeast Minnesota, with a broad area of 10-16" across southern Minnesota, extreme northern Iowa, and west central Wisconsin. Thunder was heard at times on Friday March 18th when snow was falling at the rate of 2-3 inches per hour. Rochester, MN set a one-day record snowfall of 19.8" on the 18th. Some of the more significant totals from the 18th and 19th. In IA: Otranto (19.0"), Osage (15.0").In MN: Lyle (24.0"), Preston (23.3"), Houston (23.0"), Byron (22.5"), St Charles (22.0"), Rochester (20.2"), Spring Valley (20.0"), Stewartville (19.4"), Chatfield (19.0"), Kasson (19.0"), Caledonia (18.0"), Grand Meadow (17.7"), Austin (17.0"), Goodview (17.0"), Winona (17.0"), Dover (17.0"), Dodge Center (16.0"), Mantorville (16.0"), West Concord (16.0"), Theilman (15.6"), Oronoco (15.1"), Leroy (15.0"), Rushford (15.0"), Pine Island (15.0").In WI: Alma Center (23.0"), Buffalo City (21.5"), Ettrick (18.5"), Cochrane (18.0"), Arcadia (17.0"), Blair (16.6"), La Crosse (15.2"), Taylor (15.0"), Independence (15.0").
1998: 6-8" of snow fell around Medford, WI and points east and south from 1 AM to10 PM. Strong winds accompanying the snow created 2 to 3 foot drifts.
1989: Hatfield, WI (6.5"), Mauston, WI (6.5"), and Neillsville, WI (6") snow.
1977: In WI: Mather (8"), Hatfield (6.5"), Neillsville (7"), Mauston (6"), and Goodrich (6") snow.
1971: Richland Center, WI (8"), Cresco, IA (7"), Rochester, MN (6.9"), and Austin, MN (6") snow.
1965: A winter storm deposited snowfall in the amounts of: In IA: Decorah (6"). In MN: Wabasha (10.5", greatest one-day snowfall), Minnesota City (10"), La Crescent (8.4"), Caledonia (8"), Winona (8"), Harmony (6"), Lake City (6"). In WI: Jump River (12"), Hatfield (11"), Mather (11"), Alma (9"), Galesville (9"), Readstown (9"), Dodge (8.6"), Trempealeau (8"), Westby (7.5"), Curtiss (7"), Goodrich (7"), Muscoda (7"), Neillsville (7"), Owen (7"), Lynxville (6").
See entry for previous day from this site and from http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory 
1957: Richland Center, WI (9"), Preston, MN (6"), and Spring Grove, MN (6") snow.
1951: A late spring snow storm dropped snow in the amounts of: In IA: Cresco (10"), Osage (10"), New Hampton (8"), Dorchester (6"), Waukon (6"). In MN: Harmony (12"), Spring Grove (12"), Winona (11"), Minnesota City (10"), Theilman (9.1"), Grand Meadow (9"), Lake City (8.5"), Austin (8"), La Crescent (8"), Rochester (7.1"), Caledonia (7"). In WI: Hatfield (15"), Mondovi (11.3"), Mather (9"), Alma (8"), Trempealeau (7.5"), Galesville (7"), Neillsville (7"), Owen (6"), Sparta (6"), West Salem (6").
1923: Viroqua, WI (6") snow.
1899: New Hampton, IA (10") snow.
March 19
1998: Goodrich, WI (6.5") and Owen, WI (6") snow.
1971: a late spring snow storm dropped snows amounting to: In IA: New Hampton (12"), Waucoma (11"), Waukon (10"), Charles City (9"), Lansing (7.3"), Fayette (6"). In MN: Harmony (9"), Caledonia (6"). In WI: Readstown (10"), Viroqua (10"), Lancaster (8"), Mauston (8"), Muscoda (8"), Richland Center (8"), Westby (7"), Lynxville (6.5"), Alma (6").
1966: Goodrich, WI (6") snow.
1965: Lanesboro, MN (8") snow.
1957: snowfall on this day ranged from: In IA: Cresco (11"), Decorah (9"), Dorchester (8"), Lansing (8"), Fayette (6.6"), Osage (6"). In MN: Harmony (7"), Caledonia (6.5"). In WI: Lynxville (10"), Muscoda (8"), Readstown (8"), Prairie du Chien (7.5"), Genoa (7"), Viroqua (6.5").
1933: rain changed over to snow during the evening of the 18th and then continued to fall through the 20th. During this time, La Crosse received 16.2" of snow. Meanwhile, south and east of La Crosse, freezing rain produced a heavy coating of ice on power lines. Many poles ended up breaking due to the weight of the ice. Grand Meadow, MN (18", greatest one-day snowfall), Winona, MN (16", which tied 3/30/1934 and 12/1/1985 for their greatest one-day snowfall), and Viroqua, WI (8") snow.
1922: rain changed to moderately heavy snow at La Crosse at 7 AM and then continued to fall through 3 PM. La Crosse, WI (6") snow.
1920: 3.8" of light yellow snow fell from the evening of the 18th through mid day of the19th in La Crosse, WI. The coloration of the snow is believed to have come from duststorms in both Colorado and Wyoming. 
March 20
1984: Alma, WI (7") snow.
1970: Snow totals on this date were: In IA: Charles City (7"), Cresco (7"), Osage (6.5"), Decorah (6"), Fayette (6"). In MN: Harmony (6"), Grand Meadow (6"), Minnesota City (6"), Theilman (6"). In WI: Trempealeau (6.5"), Mauston (6"), Neillsville (6"), Sparta (6"), Viroqua (6").
1967: Elkader, IA (9"), Platteville, WI (8.9"), Lancaster, WI (7"). Decorah, IA (6.5"), and Waucoma, IA (6") snow.
1965: Jump River, WI (-27, coldest March temperature).
1933: New Hampton, IA (10") snow.
1901: Viroqua, WI (6") snow.
March 21
2001: Grand Meadow, MN (6") snow.
1993: A winter storm dumped up to 13" of snow over southwest Wisconsin. A number of accidents took place. Some snow amounts: Cuba City (13"), Victory (11.5"), and Cassville (10") snow.
1984: Dodge, WI (8.5"), Winona, MN (7.8"), Lanesboro, MN (7"), Dorchester, IA (6"), Elgin, MN (6"), and Zumbro Falls, MN (6") snow.
1971: Decorah, IA (12") snow.
1967: Prairie du Chien, WI (8"), Mather, WI (6.5"), and Neillsville, WI (6") snow.
1955: A late spring snow storm deposited snow in the amounts of: In IA: Decorah (6"), Dorchester (6"), New Hampton (6"). In MN: Caledonia (8"), Hokah (8"), Grand Meadow (6"), Harmony (6"), La Crescent (6"), Spring Grove (6"), Winona (6"). In WI: Mather (7"), Sparta (7"), Trempealeau (7"), Hatfield (6.1"), Cashton (6"), Curtiss (6"), Goodrich (6"), Neillsville (6"), Owen (6").
1951: Curtiss, WI (9.4") snow.
1932: Fayette, IA (6") snow. 
March 22
1993: Lanesboro, MN (7"), Platteville, WI (6.5"), Preston, MN (6.5"), New Hampton, IA (6"), and Postville, IA (6") snow.
1992: In WI: Richland Center (7"), Muscoda (6.7"), La Farge (6"), Ontario (6"), and Viroqua (6") snow.
1991: Clayton County IA reported thunderstorm wind gusts in excess of 85 mph.
See entry for date from http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
1952: Snow totals amounted to:In IA: Cresco (10"), Charles City (9.7"), New Hampton (8"), Lansing (7.5").In MN: Rochester (10.2"), Harmony (8"), Austin (6").In WI: La Crosse (6.8"), Platteville (6.3"), Lancaster (6").
See entry for date from http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
1951: A strong warm front moved through central Wisconsin. After a morning low of-10 at Alma, the temperature climbed to 43 later in the day. This 53 degree differencebetween the high and low temperature tied 2/2/1970 for Alma's greatest diurnaltemperature change.
1938: Destructive thunderstorm winds between 4 AM and 430 AM caused between $5, 000 and $10, 000 damage at French Island, WI. In addition, there was some interruption of telephone and power service. Hail broke some street lightning globes in La Crosse. The La Crosse Floral Company reported some glass damage.
1916: Fayette, IA (6") snow.
1903: New Hampton, IA (8") snow.
1893: La Crosse, WI (6.5") snow.
March 23
1993: Steuben, WI (8") snow.
1980: Jump River, WI (6") snow.
1966: A late winter storm brought these precipitation totals: In IA: Charles City (1.75", wettest March day). In MN: Grand Meadow (12", 2" liquid equivalent), Elgin (11.5", 1.57" liquid equivalent, wettest March day), Austin, MN (9"), Lanesboro (6"). In WI: Goodrich (8"), Mondovi (8"), Jump River (7"), Alma (6", 1.7" liquid equivalent, wettest March day), Blair (1.74" liquid equivalent, wettest March day), Mather (1.51" liquid equivalent, wettest March day), Trempealeau (2.1" liquid equivalent, wettest March day), Dodge (1.92", water equivalent).
See entry for date on http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory

1952: Snow fell totaling: In IA: Osage (10"), Lansing (7.5"), Fayette (6.5"). In MN: Minnesota City (10"), Winona (9"), Grand Meadow (8"), Theilman (7"), Hokah (6"). In WI: Alma (14", greatest one-day snowfall), Owen (9"), Hatfield (8"), West Salem (6.2"), Goodrich (6"), Steuben (6"), Trempealeau (6").
1951: Rochester, MN (7.4") snow.
1910: The temperature rose to 84 degrees in Winona, MN and Osage, IA. This is the warmest March temperature at both locations. 
March 24
1996: residents of Clark and Taylor Counties in central Wisconsin were hit by a late March snowstorm. Thunder and lightning accompanied the snow, resulting in snowfall rates of 1-3" per hour at times. Total accumulations of 4-8" were common across the area. Amounts included: Goodrich (9.5"), Jump River (8.5"), Owen (8"), Lublin (7"), Gad (5").
1988: an F2 tornado moved northeast across Fayette and Winneshiek counties in northeast Iowa. It did considerable damage to buildings in its path. Some of the buildings were almost completely destroyed. Besides this tornado, an F1 tornado caused structural damage just east of Nora Springs, IA (Floyd County) and an F0 tornado destroyed a machine shed just south of Riceville, IA (Mitchell County).
1979: Preston, MN (8.5"), Goodrich, WI (8"), Wabasha, MN (8"), Elgin, MN (7.5"), Hatfield, WI (7.5"), and Hokah, MN (6") snow.
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
1951: Theilman, MN (5") snow. This brought the snow depth to 30", which is their greatest ever recorded.
1937: Winona, MN (15") snow.
1932: Fayette, IA (8") and New Hampton, IA (6") snow.
1910: both Blair, WI (85) and Rochester, MN (82) recorded their warmest March temperature. 
March 25
1996: A late March snowstorm hit western and north central Wisconsin. The snow began Sunday evening (24th) and continued through Monday morning (25th) producing 4-8" of accumulation. Strong winds of 15-30 mph produced near white-out conditions, resulting in numerous school closings throughout the area. Other reports: Jump River, WI (12.5"), Elgin, MN (6.4"), Mondovi, WI (6"), Nelson, WI (6"), Fountain City, MN (4"), Winona, MN (2", water equivalent, wettest March day).
See entry for date in http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
1964: Dorchester, IA (7"), La Crosse, WI (6.2"), and Cashton, WI (6") snow.
March 26
1964: A late spring snowstorm dropped these snow amounts: In IA: New Hampton (8"), Waucoma (8"), Waukon (8"), Lansing (7.8"), Decorah (7"), Charles City (6.2"). In MN: Harmony (7"), Caledonia (6"). In WI: Mather (8.8"), Sparta (7"), Viroqua (7"), Mauston (6.5"), Genoa (6"), Hillsboro (6"), Necedah (6"), Readstown (6").
1959: Preston, MN (7.1"), Cashton, WI (6.4"), and Richland Center, WI (6") snow.
1950: Both Austin, MN (1.94") and Waukon, IA (2.66") had their wettest March day.
March 27
1995: An early spring snowstorm dumped 6-12" of very wet, heavy snow in a band from northwest to east-central Wisconsin between 3 AM and 5 PM. Sleet, freezing rain, and thunderstorms were also mixed in. 9" fell at Black River Falls. Several hundred electrical customers were without power for several hours due to scattered power outages. These outages were the result of the heavy snow and winds gusting to 30 mph pushing tree branches into power lines. Numerous vehicle accidents and four deaths were indirectly related to this storm. Numerous school classes were either delayed or cancelled.
1983: Austin, MN (6") and Marble Rock, IA (6") snow.
1975: La Crosse, WI (6.8") snow.
1972: Spring Grove, MN (6") snow.
1968: An F2 tornado moved from 5 miles southwest of Whitehall, WI to 3 miles east of Whitehall. It destroyed several wood frame barns and a concrete block barn. It caused no injuries or deaths.
1959: Grand Meadow, MN (7") and Lanesboro, MN (7") snow.
1945: An F3 tornado obliterated a farm house and barn 8 miles southwest Medford, WI.
1944: Winona, MN (11") and Grand Meadow, MN (9") snow.
1940: Viroqua, WI (6") snow.
1907: Lancaster, WI (82, warmest March day).
March 28
1995: Mather, WI (10") and Neillsville, WI (8") snow.
1975: Decorah, IA (7") snow.
1969: Dodge, WI (6.5") Mauston, WI (6"), Minnesota City, MN (6"), and Necedah, WI ( 6") snow.
1956: That following precipitation totals were recorded: In IA: Decorah (1.97" liquid equivalent, wettest March day). In MN: Lanesboro (1.69" liquid equivalent, wettest March day). In WI: Curtiss (7"), Jump River (6"), Mondovi (6"), Owen (6"), Harmony (1.87" liquid equivalent, wettest March day).
1931: Snow began during the afternoon of the 27th and continued through the early morning hours of the 29th. La Crosse, WI (13.1") and Viroqua, WI (6") snow. 
March 29
1998: A weak F0 tornado touched down briefly just west of Wabasha, MN and from 1 mile south of Maxville, WI to 5 miles east of Maxville. No damage was reported with either. These tornadoes were part of a family of tornadoes that ravaged Comfrey and St Peter, MN earlier in the day. See also entry for date at http://www.weather.gov/mqt/today_in_history
1987: Harmony, MN (11"), Hatfield, WI (8"), Osage, IA (8"), La Crosse, WI (7.3"), Hokah, MN (6"), Lanesboro, MN (6"), and Mauston, WI (6") snow.
1986: [Also see March 30th], Record warmest March temperatures were recorded, ranging from: In IA: Elkader (87), Guttenberg (87), Charles City (85), Fayette (85), Oelwein (85), New Hampton (84), Waukon (82). In WI: Dodge (86), Hatfield (85), Necedah (85), Platteville (85), La Crosse (84, warmest March temperature), Mauston (84), Hillsboro (83), Mondovi (83), Neillsville (83), Trempealeau (83), Viroqua (83), Lynxville (82), Genoa (81), Alma (80)
See also entry for date at http://www.weather.gov/mpx/wxhistory
1984: Wabasha, MN (7.9") snow.
1972: Mauston, WI (6.5") snow.
1942: Viroqua, WI (6") snow.
1924: La Crosse, WI (7.5") snow. Thunder was reported during the early morning hours.
1910: Medford, WI (78, warmest March temperature).
1895: Prairie du Chien had a high temperature of 89. This is the warmest March temperature in Wisconsin.   (Checks with entry on 
http://www.aos.wisc.edu/%7Esco/clim-history/state/wihitemp.html )

March 30
2005: A potent early spring storm system triggered numerous small thunderstorms, including a few brief tornadoes from east of Mason City, IA through Mitchell County, Iowa to near the Minnesota-Iowa state line. This area was near the center of low pressure and nearby cold/warm fronts that served as a 'triple point' to focus severe weather development. Even though the storms were relatively small and weak, the ingredients were there to spawn brief tornadoes. Known touchdowns included: 6 miles west of Osage, IA at 2:04 pm, NW side of Stacyville, IA at 2:13 pm, and on the state line south of Adams, MN (Mower/Mitchell County) at 2:18 pm. All damage was rated F0 on the Fujita Damage Scale. Damage was mainly to garages, a pole barn, and other misc. older outbuildings. Wind damage also occurred in southeast Minnesota, east and northeast of Rochester, MN from wind speeds of 60-70 mph.
1986: [Also see March 29th], A heat wave continued this day, with record March temperatures ranging from: In IA: Decorah (84), Cresco (83). In MN: Caledonia (86), Preston (82). In WI: Mather (84), Richland Center (84), Sparta (84), Theilman (83), Owen (78).
1982: An F1 tornado touched down in the Armenia Township, WI (Juneau County)where it destroyed a house and three nearby mobile homes. Two occupants of the house were injured. The tornado then moved northeast on a 22 mile intermittent path, just southeast of Nekoosa before lifting southwest of Stevens Point.
1974: Harmony, MN (8") and Cresco, IA (6.2") snow.
1968: Preston, MN had a high temperature of 78 and a low temperature of 21. This 57 temperature diurnal temperature difference is the greatest ever recorded there.
1967: A large barn was destroyed by an F2 tornado 2 miles south of Protovin, IA in Chickasaw county and then moved north into southeast Howard county.
1951: Lancaster, WI (6") snow.
1934: Snow began during the early morning hours of the 29th and continued through the earlier morning hours of the 31st. Storm totals ranged from: Winona, MN (16", tying 3/19/1933 and 12/1/1985 for their greatest one-day snowfall), La Crosse, WI (12.7"), Grand Meadow, MN (12"), Viroqua, WI (9").
1924: Fayette, IA (8") snow.
1901: Fayette, IA (7.5") and New Hampton, IA (6") snow. 
March 31
1998: The following locations recorded their wettest March day on this date: In IA: Elkader (3.23"), Guttenberg (2.93"), Fayette (2.29") In WI: Muscoda (3.75"), Lancaster (3.60"), Richland Center (3.29"), Prairie du Chien (2.80"), Platteville (2.55"), Lynxville (2.50"), Mauston (2.22"), Hillsboro (2.09"), Necedah (2.03").
1993: Both Mondovi, WI (1.89") and Rochester, MN (1.81") had their wettest Marchday.
1986: Jump River, WI (79, warmest March temperature).
1985: A late season snow storm deposited snow amounting to: In IA: Decorah (7.5"), Cresco (6"), Dorchester (6"), New Hampton (6"), Osage (6"). In MN: Lake City (9"), Rochester (7.4"), Austin (7"), Harmony (7"). In WI: Jump River (11"), Mondovi (8"), Caledonia (6"), Cashton (6"), Genoa (6").
1981: Thunderstorm wind gusts up to 90 mph blew through Clark County, WI.
1978: Austin, MN (79, warmest March temperature).
1967: Two weak F1 tornadoes touched down shortly after midnight near Elroy, WI (Juneau County) and west of Westby, WI (Vernon County). Neither tornado caused any injuries or deaths.
1949: Hatfield, WI (9"), Curtiss, WI (8"), and Goodrich, WI (8") snow.
1929: Snow began on the evening of the 30th and continued through the morning of April 1st. In addition, thunder was reported in the La Crosse area on the 31st. La Crosse, WI received a storm total of 10.3" of snow. The heavy wet snow caused millions of dollars of damage to telephone lines.
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Weather trivia for March

Mar 1, 1988
Thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds in north
central Texas. Baseball size hail was reported at Lake Kickapoo.
Hail fell continuously for thirty minutes in the Iowa Park area
of Wichita Falls.

Mar 2, 1985
A Massive winter storm struck the Northern Plains Region. The
storm produced up to 33 inches of snow in northeastern South
Dakota, at Summit and at Milbank, and also produced high winds
which whipped the heavy snow into drifts twenty feet high.

Mar 3, 1966
A tornado hit Jackson MS killing 54 persons.
IN 1995...Heavy snow blanketed much of southwest Kansas with 5 to
10 inches reported. The snow began February 28th. Dodge City
received 9.3 inches of snow between February 28th and March 3rd.
Slick roads and poor visibility caused some accidents, closed
schools and canceled or postponed activities.

Mar 4, 1948
Heavy snow blanketed western Kansas. As much as 20 inches of snow
was on the ground at Hays. Twelve inches of snow was common across
the area. Dodge City had 18 inches on the ground, while Garden City
had 14.
IN 1966...A severe blizzard raged across Minnesota and North Dakota.
The blizzard lasted four days producing up to 35 inches of snow, and
wind gusting to 100 mph produced snow drifts 30 to 40 feet high.
Bismark ND reported zero visibility for 11 hours. Traffic was
paralyzed for three days.

Mar 5, 1990
Thunderstorms over eastern Colorado, developing ahead of a major
storm system, produced up to three inches of small hail around
Colorado Springs during the late morning and early afternoon.
Strong thundrstorms swept through southeastern sections of the
Denver area during the evening hours. These strong thunderstorms
also produced up to three inches of small hail, along with wind
gusts to 50 mph, and as much as 2.4 inches of rain.

Mar 6, 1995
A winter blizzard created icy, snow packed roads in southwest
Kansas which led to a 19 car pileup on west U.S. highway 50
between Garden City and Holcomb. No major injuries were
reported. The day began with freezing rain over the area and
then turned into a blizzard by the afternoon. Anywhere from two
to six inches of snow fell across the remainder of Kansas.

Mar 7, 1996
The low of 6 degrees below zero established the record low for
the month of March at Garden City.
IN 1998...Blizzard conditions began during the afternoon hours
across southwest Kansas and lasted until the morning of the 8th.
Almost all the highways were closed for several hours with 30 to
40 mph winds causing zero to near zero visibilities. Final
snowfall totals ranged from 3 to 4 inches in Finney, Seward and
Comanche counties to 6 inches in Morton county, 7 inches in Gray
county and 8 to 10 inches in Stafford, Pratt and Ford counties.
Drifts were as high as 8 feet in some areas.
IN 2000...A tornado touched down for about 3 minutes in Liberal
during the late afternoon hours. One third of a hospital roof was
removed, a KDOT tower was blown down and several trees were uprooted.
Sheds were destroyed, the awning at a gas station was damaged and
signs were blown down. Estimated property damage was $250,000.

Mar 8, 1909
The town of Brinkley AR was struck by a tornado which killed 49
persons and caused 600 thousand dollars property damage. The
1200 yard wide tornado destroyed 860 buildings. Entire families
were killed as houses were completely swept away by the tornado.
Tornadoes killed 64 persons and injured 671 others in Dallas and
Monroe counties during the Arkansas tornado outbreak.

Mar 9, 1956
A whopping 367 inches of snow was measured on the ground at the
Ranier Paradise Ranger Station in Washington. The snow depth was
a state record and the second highest total of record for the U.S.

Mar 10, 1922
A total of 17.5 inches of snow set a 24 hour record for snowfall
at Dodge City. The snow began on March 9th.
IN 1988...The barometric pressure of 26.71 inches was the lowest
recording of all-time for Dodge City.
IN 2012...With a low of 29 degrees Dodge City established the
earliest last freeze of the spring on record.

Mar 11, 1911
Tamarack CA reported 451 inches of snow on the ground, a record
for the U.S.
IN 1948...The low of 15 degrees below zero established the record
low for the month of March at Dodge City.
IN 1948...Record cold followed in the wake of a Kansas blizzard.
Lows of minus 25 degrees at Oberlin, Healy and Quinter established a
state record for the month of March. Lows of minus 11 at Concordia
and minus 3 at Wichita were also March records.

Mar 12, 1991
High winds blasted southwest Kansas. Duststorms blackening the
sky reduced visibilities to as low as zero in some areas. Wind
gusts hit 89 mph at Garden City and 67 mph at Dodge City. A
Hamilton county official reported "this wind's blowing like
sin." The winds ripped shingles from rooftops, scattered
irrigation pipe, trimmed limbs from trees, tore up signs, store
fronts, awnings and sent debris flying. Winds were sustained at
40 to 55 mph from about 11 pm the night before to about 6 am in
the morning throughout the area.
IN 1993...This was the last measurable snowfall of the 92-93 season.
The total of 61.1 inches was a seasonal record for Dodge City.

Mar 13, 1990
A powerful tornado tore through the central Kansas community of
Hesston. The tornado killed two persons, injured sixty others,
and caused 22 million dollars damage along its 67 mile path. The
tornado had a life span of two hours.

Mar 14, 1870
The term "blizzard" was first applied to a storm which produced
heavy snow and high wind in Minnesota and Iowa.
IN 1989...High winds in Colorado and Wyoming gusted above 120 mph at
Horsetooth Heights Colorado. High winds in the Central Plains
sharply reduced visibilities in blowing dust as far east as
Kansas City Missouri. Winds gusting to 72 mph at Hill City
Kansas reduced the visibility to a city block in blowing dust.
Soil erosion in northwest Kansas damaged nearly five million
acres of wheat.

Mar 15, 1941
The most severe blizzard in modern history struck North Dakota
and Minnesota. The blizzard hit on a Saturday night while many
were traveling, and thus claimed 71 lives. Winds gusted to 75 mph
at Duluth MN, and reached 85 mph at Grand Forks ND. Snow drifts
twelve feet high were reported in north central Minnesota. A cold
front traveling 30 mph crossed Minnesota in just seven hours.

Mar 16, 1942
Two tornadoes, 24 minutes apart, struck Baldwin MS resulting in
65 deaths.
IN 1998...An ice storm occurred across southwest Kansas with anywhere
from a half inch of ice accumulation on roadways to several inches of
ice accumulations on objects such as radio towers. Every radio
station in the area had damage due to the ice accumulation.
There was one report of a chunk of ice falling completely through
a cab of a pickup. Fortunately, no one was inside at the time.
An 800 foot radio tower completely fell down with a reported six
inches of ice accumulation. 1450 power poles came down across
the area. Power was out for 4 to 6 days in some places.

Mar 17, 1988
A winter storm produced heavy snow from the northeast Texas
Panhandle to the Ozark area of Missouri and Arkansas. Up to 15
inches of snow was reported in Oklahoma and Texas. Snowfall totals
in the Ozark area ranged up to 14 inches, with unofficial reports
as high as 22 inches around Harrison AR.

Mar 18, 1925
The great Tri-State Tornado occurred, the most deadly tornado in
U.S. history. The tornado claimed 695 lives including 234 at
Murphysboro Illinois and 148 at West Frankfort Illinois, and
caused seventeen million dollars property damage. It cut a swath
of destruction 219 miles long and as much as a mile wide from
east central Missouri to southern Indiana. Seven other tornadoes
claimed an additional 97 lives that day.
IN 1971...High winds accompanied a low pressure system from the
Rocky Mountains to the Great Lakes. Winds gusted to 100 mph at
Hastings NE, and reached 115 mph at Hays KS. High winds caused
two million dollars damage in Kansas.
IN 1982...A farm home was destroyed by a tornado, and outbuildings
were damaged 6 miles NNW of Liberal. Debris was scattered for a
half mile. About 2 miles N of Sublette, a mobile home was
overturned. No injuries were reported.
IN 1998...Total snow accumulations in southwest Kansas ranged up
to 8 to 12 inches in Stafford, Comanche, Ford, Gray, Finney, Grant,
Morton, Seward, Meade and Clark counties. 20 to 30 mph winds
accompanied the snowfall resulting in visibilities under a half
mile and significant drifting of the snow.

Mar 19, 1907
The high of 98 degrees established the record high for the month
of March at Dodge City.
IN 1935...Suffocating dust storms occurred frequently in southeast
Colorado between the 12th and the 25th of the month. Six people
died, and many livestock starved or suffocated. Up to six feet
of dust covered the ground. Schools were closed, and many rural
homes were deserted by tenants.
IN 1984...A major winter storm produced blizzard conditions in
northwestern Kansas and southern Nebraska. This storm, which
began affecting the region on the 18th, dumped 10 to 20 inches
of snow over the above mentioned areas. A severe ice storm
occurred in northeastern Kansas with 1 inch ice accumulations
common. The 1400 foot radio tower for KLDH TV near Topeka
buckled and then collapsed from the weight of a 3 inch coating
of ice. This ice storm ranks as one of the worst ever to hit
Kansas.

Mar 20, 1989
A strong storm system brought blizzard conditions to far western
Kansas during the morning and afternoon hours. Winds of 40 to 60
mph and temperatures in the lower 20s accompanied the snow.
Visibilities were reduced to under 1/2 mile due to the blowing
and drifting snow. Snowfall amounts were generally in the 1 to 3
inch range with 4 to 7 inches in portions of southwest Kansas
near Garden city. Many roads in the area were closed during the
storm.

Mar 21, 1932
A tornado swarm occurred in the Deep South. Between late
afternoon and early the next morning severe thunderstorms spawned
31 tornadoes in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Tennessee. The
tornadoes killed 334 persons and injured 1784 others. Northern
Alabama was hardest hit. Tornadoes in Alabama killed 286 persons
and caused five million dollars damage.
IN 1952...Severe thunderstorms spawned 31 tornadoes across Arkansas,
Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama and Kentucky. The
tornadoes killed 343 persons and caused 15 million dollars
damage. The towns of Judsonia AR and Henderson TN were nearly
wiped off the map in what proved to be the worst tornado
outbreak of record for Arkansas. A tornado, one and a half
miles wide at times, left a church the only undamaged building
at Judsonia.

Mar 22, 1936
A great flood crested on rivers from Ohio to Maine. The flood
claimed 107 lives and caused 270 million dollars property damage.

Mar 23, 1913
A vicious tornado hit the city of Omaha NE. The tornado struck
during the late afternoon on Easter Sunday, and in just 12
minutes cut a swath of destruction five miles long and two
blocks wide across the city killing 94 persons.
IN 1987...The first of two blizzards within a week of each other hit
southwest Kansas. At Dodge City, strong north winds blew and
increased to peak gusts of 78 mph at noon. The very strong winds
continued in the 73 to 77 mph range for about 4 hours. Snow and
blowing snow continued to reduce visibilities to near zero with
wind speeds of 40 to 50 mph until the early morning hours on
march 25th. The snow depth was recorded at 11 inches of wet
snow. The wet snow helped to prevent a tremendous amount of
drifting even with 60 to 70 mph winds. Very solid snow drifts
stood 6 feet tall on the dodge city airport.

Mar 24, 1912
Residents of Kansas City began to dig out from a storm that
produced 25 inches of snow in 24 hours. A total of 40 inches of
snow fell during the month of March that year, and the total for
the winter season of 67 inches was also a record. Olathe Kansas
received 37 inches of snow in the snowstorm, establishing a
single storm record for the state of Kansas.

Mar 25, 1934
A spring snowstorm produced 21 inches of snow at Amarillo TX in
just 24 hours. However, much of the snow melted as it fell, and
as a result, the snow cover was never any deeper than 4.5
inches.
IN 1948...For the second time in less than a week airplanes were
destroyed by a tornado at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma City OK. The
first tornado, on March 20th, struck without warning and caused
more damage than any previous tornado in the state of Oklahoma.
The second tornado was predicted by Fawbush and Miller of the
United States Air Force, and their accurate tornado forecast
ushered in the modern era of severe weather forecasting.
IN 1957...A great blizzard which began March 22nd ended. Snow
had fallen every hour from 10 pm on the 22nd until 1 pm on the
25th. The storm dropped an estimated 18.5 inches of snow in Dodge
City. Southwest Kansas had been completely paralyzed from the
storm. Every highway in the western part of the state was closed
by drifts of up to 10 feet and more. Local motels, churches and
schools were packed with stranded travelers and several people
were reported missing as a result of the great blizzard in southwest
Kansas. Three passenger trains had become stuck in the storm; one
four miles east of Dodge City, one west of Garden City and another
near Meade. An estimated 600-700 head of cattle were lost. The
southern sides of most buildings were completely covered with drifts
and 20 to 30 foot drifts were not uncommon.
IN 1987...Heavy rain left rivers and streams swollen in Kansas and
Nebraska, causing considerable crop damage due to flooding of
agricultural areas. The Saline River near Wilson Reservoir in
central Kansas reached its highest level since 1951.

Mar 26, 1913
The Ohio River Basin flood reached a climax. Ten inch rains
over a wide area of the Ohio River Basin inundated cities in
Ohio, drowning 467 persons. The Miami River at Dayton reached a
level eight feet higher than ever before. The flood, caused by
warm weather and heavy rains, was the second most deadly of
record for the nation.
IN 1989...Thunderstorms that moved into south-central Kansas from
northwest Oklahoma produced considerable lightning activity in
Clark and Comanche counties. Many range fires were started when
lightning struck the very dry grass in the region. Several
cattle were lost in the fires along with some fences and
corrals. An estimated 7,000 acres of land was burned in the two
counties.
IN 1991...High winds caused damage to homes across Kansas. Winds
gusted over 80 mph in the southwest, and gusted to between 60 and
70 mph across the rest of the state. Roofs were torn off in the
Dodge City and Garden City areas, and several cars and homes were
damaged in the Fort Scott area. Total damage estimate from the
high wind episode was 1.5 million dollars.

Mar 27, 1890
An outbreak of tornadoes occurred in the Ohio Valley. One
tornado struck Louisville KY killing 78 persons and causing four
million dollars damage.
IN 1931...A blizzard which struck western Kansas and adjoining
states was called the "worst since January eighteen eighty eight".
The low temperature of 3 degrees below zero which was reached
during the blizzard stands as the coldest recorded so late in the
season.
IN 1987...A second blizzard in less than a week hit southwest
Kansas. North winds of 35 to 45 mph with peak gusts to 50 mph
caused much blowing and drifting of snow with visibilities near zero.
The blizzard finally ended during the early afternoon on march 29th
and had virtually shut down the entire Southwest part of kansas.
Some north south roads were still closed on March 31st in the
northern part of southwest Kansas. There was 5 inches of snow
reported at Dodge City although much of it was in 5 to 6 foot
drifts. Garden city received 12 to 14 inches of snow.
IN 1991...A powerful storm moved through southwest Kansas during
the early morning hours bringing high winds and dust storms to
the area. The peak wind gust at both Dodge City and Garden City
was 84 mph. The winds felled trees, shattered glass, downed
fences, rolled trucks, snapped poles, ripped shingles from homes
and mangled awnings. A main distribution feeder in the north part
of Garden City was destroyed. Visibilities in some areas were
at zero. Total damage was 1.5 million dollars.
IN 2004...A tornado moved through Edwards county in southwestern
Kansas during the early afternoon hours from 5 miles northwest of
KInsley to 12 miles north of Kinsley. This tornado became very
large and dusty. Several farms were hit with minor damage to
other outbuildings across it's path. Five equipment buildings were
destroyed and a house was knocked off it's foundation. Trees
were mangled and debarked. A stock trailer was blown 3/4 of a
mile from it's original location and an oil tank was 3 tenths of a
mile.
IN 2009...A major winter storm began on March 27th and ended by the
28th. More than a foot of snow accumulated across a large part of
southwest and south central Kansas with the heaviest snowfall in
south central Kansas. Nearly all roads were closed for an extended
period due to zero visibilities and widespread 10 to 20 foot drifts.
Snowfall from the event was heaviest from southeast Clark to Pratt
Counties where 28 to 30 inches fell in a 24 hour period. The
cooperative observer in Pratt reported 30 inches of snow in 24 hours
which established a state record.

Mar 28, 1984
A severe outbreak of tornadoes hit the Carolinas. Thunderstorms
spawned 22 tornadoes during the late afternoon and evening hours
which killed 57 persons and injured 1248 others. Nearly half the
deaths occurred in mobile homes.
IN 2009...Pratt Kansas established a state 24 hour record snowfall
amount with 30 inches of snow reported. The previous record was
24 inches at Norcatur on October 26 1996.

Mar 29, 1935
A severe dust storm blanketed Amarillo Texas for 84 hours.
During one six hour period the visibility was near zero.

Mar 30, 1989
Several severe thunderstorms formed over southwest Kansas during
the late afternoon hours and then moved into south central
sections of the state. Hail up to golf ball size and strong
winds to 60 mph were reported. Strong winds from a thunderstorm
blew a truck off highway 83, 14 miles north of Sublette.

Mar 31, 1892
A tornado moved north, hitting along the edge of Kiowa, KS.
This tornado tore apart five homes, and destroyed the railroad
depot on the edge of town. Downburst damage was extensive in
town, making life miserable for the "boomers" that were waiting
for the opening of the Cherokee strip in Oklahoma.
IN 1892...A tornado killed nine people and injured 60 others in
the town of Towanda KS, located about 20 miles northeast of Wichita.
IN 1996...March ended another month of extreme dryness. The period
from July 1995 through March 1996 was the driest period ever at many
locations across western Kansas, with records dating back 120
years. The wheat crop was almost completely wiped out by the
drought.

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Weather History
For Saturday, March 1, 2014
1910 - The deadliest avalanche of record in the U.S. thundered down the mountains near Wellington Station WA sweeping three huge locomotive train engines and some passenger cars, snowbound on the grade leading to Stevens Pass, over the side and into a canyon, and burying them under tons of snow. The avalanche claimed the lives of more than 100 people. The station house at Wellington was also swept away. (The Weather Channel)
1914 - High winds and heavy snow crippled New Jersey and New York State. Two feet of snow were reported at Ashbury Park, and at New York City the barometric pressure dropped to a record 28.38 inches. The storm caused complete disruption of electric power in New Jersey. (David Ludlum)
1980 - Norfolk, VA, received 13.7 inches of snow to push their season total to a record 41.9 inches exceeding their previous record by more than four inches. (David Ludlum)
1980 - An unusually large Florida tornado, 500 yards in width at times, killed one person and caused six million dollars damage near Fort Lauderdale. (The Weather Channel)
1983 - A ferocious storm battered the Pacific coast. The storm produced heavy rain and gale force winds resulting in flooding and beach erosion, and in the mountains produced up to seven feet of snow in five days. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - A storm crossing the Great Lakes Region produced heavy snow and gale force winds from Wisconsin to northern New England, with eight inches of snow reported at Ironwood MI. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds in north central Texas. Baseball size hail was reported at Lake Kickapoo. Hail fell continuously for thirty minutes in the Iowa Park area of Wichita Falls. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - March came in like a lion, with snow and high winds, in the northwestern U.S. Winds gusted to 86 mph in the Rosario Strait of western Washington State. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - A series of low pressure systems moving out of the Gulf of Alaska spread high winds and heavy snow across western Alaska. Winds in the Anchorage area gusted to 69 mph at Glen Alps, and Talkeetna was buried under three feet of snow in two days. Valdez received 21.4 inches of snow, raising their total for the winter season to 482.4 inches. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
2006 - Dallas/Forth Worth Airport breaks a 107-year-old North Texas temperature record after reaching 93 degrees. Mineral Wells reached 97, Wichita Falls 96 and Fort Worth Meacham Airport 90.
2011 - Snowfall across Idaho broke numerous accumulation records. Pierce received 15 inches, Powell 14.5 inches, Potlatch 12 inches and Kellogg and Plummer 7 inches. The same storm created high winds across the Pacific Northwest. A weather station at 10,000 feet on Mount Ranier measures a wind gust of 137 MPH with a sustained 1-minute wind reading of 112 MPH. 
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Weather History
For Monday, March 2, 2015
1846 - A great storm hit Virginia and the Carolinas. The storm caused half a million dollars damage, and in North Carolina drowned fifty families and a thousand cattle on Notts Island. (David Ludlum)
1927 - Raleigh, NC, was buried under 17.8 inches of snow in 24 hours, a record for that location. Nashville NC received 31 inches of snow. The average snow depth in the state of Carolina was fourteen inches. (The Weather Channel)
1975 - The governor's Tornado&puot; in Atlanta did considerable damage to the governor's mansion and surrounding areas resulting in three deaths and 56.5 million dollars damage. (The Weather Channel)
1985 - A massive winter storm struck the Northern Plains Region. The storm produced up to 33 inches of snow in northeastern South Dakota, at Summit and at Milbank, and also produced high winds which whipped the heavy snow into drifts twenty feet high. (Storm Data)
1987 - A storm in the northeastern U.S. produced heavy snow in Maine, with 16 inches reported at West Grand Lake and Guilford. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the south central U.S. A tornado at Baton Rouge LA injured two persons, and another tornado caused five million dollars damage at the airport in Lafayette LA. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Snow and high winds plagued the western U.S. Up to 16 inches of snow was reported south of Seattle WA, and more than two feet of snow blanketed the Sierra Nevada Range of California. Winds gusted to 89 mph at Hidden Peak UT, and reached 92 mph at Peavine CA. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - Mild weather continued across the northern tier of states. Highs of 52 degrees at Saint Johnsbury VT, 63 degrees at Olympia WA, and 64 degrees at Seattle WA were records for the date. (The National Weather Summary) 
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Weather History
For Tuesday, March 3, 2015
1966 - A tornado hit Jackson, MS, killing 54 persons. (David Ludlum)
1980 - A coastal storm produced 25 inches of snow at Elizabeth City, NC, and 30 inches at Cape Hatteras NC. At Miami FL the mercury dipped to 32 degrees. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987)
1983 - The last of a series of storms to strike the California coast finally came to an end. Waves fifteen to twenty feet high pounded the coast for two days, and in a four day period up to 18 inches of rain drenched the Los Angeles and Santa Barbara area. On the morning of the first, thunderstorms spawned two tornadoes which moved through the Los Angeles area. (Storm Data)
1987 - A storm brought heavy rain and gale force winds to Washington and Oregon. Quillayute WA received 2.67 inches of rain in 24 hours, and winds gusted to 60 mph at Astoria OR. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - A small but intense low pressure system roared across west central Mississippi at 90 mph early in the morning. A tornado in southern Mississippi picked up an automobile, carried it 150 feet, and tossed it through the brick wall of an unoccupied retirement home. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Wintry weather prevailed from the southern Rockies to the Upper Great Lakes. Neguanee MI received 19 inches of snow, and up to 24 inches of snow blanketed Colorado. Blizzard conditions were reported in Minnesota. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - An upper level weather disturbance produced snow in the Colorado Rockies, with eight inches reported at Winter Park, and a storm moving off the Pacific Ocean began to spread rain and snow across the western U.S. March continued to start off like a lamb elsewhere around the country. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
2003 - It was a day of temperature extremes. Miami reached a high temperature of 90 degrees, the earliest observed 90 degree temperature since March 5, 1964. Meanwhile Marquette, MI, dropped to 30 degrees below zero, the lowest temperature ever recorded in the city in March. 
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Weather History
For Wednesday, March 4, 2015
1909 - Though fair weather was forecast, President Taft was inaugurated amidst a furious storm. About ten inches of wet snow disrupted travel and communications. The storm drew much criticism against the U.S. Weather Bureau. (David Ludlum)
1953 - Snow was reported on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. (The Weather Channel)
1966 - A severe blizzard raged across Minnesota and North Dakota. The blizzard lasted four days producing up to 35 inches of snow, and wind gusting to 100 mph produced snow drifts 30 to 40 feet high. Bismarck ND reported zero visibility for 11 hours. Traffic was paralyzed for three days. (2nd-5th) (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Rain and high winds prevailed in the northwestern U.S. A wind gust to 69 mph at Klamath Falls OR was their highest in 25 years, and winds at the Ashland Ranger Station in the Siskiyou Mountains of northern California reached 85 mph. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Snow and freezing rain made travel hazardous in Ohio and Indiana. A six car pile-up resulted near Columbus OH, with seven injuries reported. Up to two inches of ice glazed central Indiana. Up to ten inches of snow blanketed northern Ohio. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the Lower Mississippi Valley. A strong (F-3) tornado injured five persons near Brownsville MS, and killed seven cows and two hogs in one pasture. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 90 mph at Canton MS. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - A Pacific cold front working its way across the western U.S. produced heavy snow over parts of Idaho, Nevada and Utah. Up to eleven inches of snow blanketed the valleys of northwest Utah, while 12 to 25 inches fell across the mountains of northern Utah. Up to six inches of snow blanketed the valleys of east central Nevada, while more than a foot of snow was reported in the high elevations. In Idaho, 6 to 8 inches of snow was reported around Aberdeen and American Falls. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
2004 - An F0 tornado 2 miles north of Muldrow breaks a record stretch of days without a reported tornado, 292 days.
2008 - Only two days after reaching 78 degrees, St. Louis receives nearly a foot of snow in seven hours, the biggest snowstorm in 15 years. 
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Weather History
For Thursday, March 5, 2015
1960 - Eastern Massachusetts greatest March snowstorm of record began to abate. The storm produced record 24 hour snowfall totals of 27.2 inches at Blue Hill Observatory, 17.7 inches at Worcester, and 16.6 inches at Boston. Winds gusted to 70 mph. (3rd-5th) (The Weather Channel)
1962 - A tremendous storm raged along the Atlantic coast. The great Atlantic storm caused more than 200 million dollars property damage from Florida to New England. Winds along the Middle Atlantic Coast reached 70 mph raising forty foot waves, and as much as 33 inches of snow blanketed the mountains of Virginia. The Virginia shoreline was rearranged by historic tidal flooding caused by the combination of the long stretch of strong onshore winds and the Spring Tides. (David Ludlum)
1987 - A storm in the western U.S. produced heavy rain and high winds in California. Up to six inches of rain soaked the San Francisco Bay area in 24 hours, and winds gusted to 100 mph at the Wheeler Ridge Pumping Plant near the Tehachapi Mountains. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - While snow blanketed eastern Kansas and northern Oklahoma, eight cities in North Dakota reported new record high temperatures for the date. The afternoon high of 61 degrees at Bismarck ND was 27 degrees warmer than that at Chanute KS. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the southeastern U.S. A strong (F-2) tornado killed one person and injured six others in Heard County GA. A strong (F-3) tornado injured 23 persons and caused more than five million dollars damage around Grantville GA. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - Thunderstorms over eastern Colorado, developing ahead of a major storm system, produced up to three inches of small hail around Colorado Springs in the late morning and early afternoon. Strong thunderstorms swept through southeastern sections of the Denver area during the evening hours. These strong thunderstorms also produced up to three inches of small hail, along with wind gusts to 50 mph, and as much as 2.4 inches of rain. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)  
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Weather History
For Friday, March 6, 2015
1872 - A cold wave hit the East coast sending the mercury plunging to 8 degrees below zero at Boston. It was the most severe March cold wave in modern history. (David Ludlum)
1900 - A chinook wind blowing down the slopes of the Rockies through Havre MT raised the temperature 31 degrees in just three minutes. (The Weather Channel)
1954 - Florida received its greatest modern-day snowfall of record, with 4.0 inches at the Milton Experimental Station. Pensacola FL equalled their 24-hour record with 2.1 inches of snow. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Twenty-eight cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. Pickstown SD was the hot spot in the nation with a reading of 83 degrees. The high of 71 at Saint Cloud MN smashed their previous record by 21 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Wintry weather developed in the Rockies and the Plateau Region as arctic air swept in from the northwest. Blizzard conditions in southeast Idaho claimed the lives of two teenagers. Thunderstorms developed in Utah and Idaho. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - A winter storm in the south central U.S. left parts of Missouri and Arkansas buried under more than a foot of snow. Heavier snowfall totals in Missouri included 14 inches at Springfield and 16 inches at Lebanon. Totals in Benton County AR ranged up to 14 inches. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - Colorado's strongest winter storm of the season moved northeastward across the state producing 50 inches of snow at Echo Lake, 46.5 inches on Buckhorn Mountain, and 46 inches near the top of Coal Canyon. Snow fell at the rate of several inches per hour during the height of the storm, while winds gusted above 50 mph. Several hundred rush hour commuters, including the state governor, were stranded in blizzard conditions along Highway 36 between Denver and Boulder. Drifts up to twelve feet high had to be cleared southeast of Boulder. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
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Weather History
For Saturday, March 7, 2015
1717 - The Great Snow, a composite of four winter storms to hit the eastern U.S. in nine days, finally came to an end. Snow depths averaged 60 inches following the storm. Up to four feet of snow fell around Boston MA, and snow drifts 25 feet high were reported around Dorchester MA. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1932 - A severe coastal storm set barometric pressure records from Virginia to New England. Block Island RI reported a barometric pressure reading of 28.20 inches. (David Ludlum)
1987 - Forty-five cities in the north central and northeastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. Huron SD hit 80 degrees, and Pickstown SD reached 81 degrees. Rochester MN and Rockford IL smashed their previous record for the date by sixteen degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - High winds along a sharp cold front ushered snow and arctic cold into the Central Rocky Mountain Region and the Northern Plains. Snowfall totals in Utah ranged up to sixteen inches at Brighton. Winds gusted to 66 mph at Rapid City SD. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Blustery northwest winds ushered arctic cold into eastern U.S. Burlington VT reported a record low of 14 degrees below zero. Snow and ice over the Carolinas replaced the 80 degree weather of the previous day. High winds and heavy surf caused five million dollars damage along the North Carolina coast. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - A major ice storm left much of Iowa under a thick coat of ice. It was the worst ice storm in at least twenty-five years for Iowa, perhaps the worst of the century. Up to two inches of ice coated much of western and central Iowa, with three inches reported in Crawford County and Carroll County. As much as five inches of ice was reported on some electrical lines. The ice downed 78 towers in a 17-mile stretch of a high voltage feeder near Boone costing three electric utilities fifteen million dollars. Damage to trees was incredible, and clean-up costs alone ran into the millions. Total damage from the storm was more than fifty million dollars. (Storm Data)  
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Weather History
For Sunday, March 8, 2015
1717 - On Fishers Island in Long Island Sound, 1200 sheep were discovered to have been buried under a snow drift for four weeks. When finally uncovered, one hundred sheep were still alive. (The Weather Channel)
1909 - The town of Brinkley AR was struck by a tornado which killed 49 persons and caused 600,000 dollars damage. The tornado, which was two-thirds of a mile in width, destroyed 860 buildings. Entire families were killed as houses were completely swept away by the tornado. Tornadoes killed 64 persons and injured 671 others in Dallas and Monroe counties during the Arkansas tornado outbreak. (David Ludlum)
1984 - A freak thunder snowstorm produced high winds, vivid lightning, and up to seven inches of snow in the northern suburbs of Washington D.C. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987)
1987 - Thirty-two cities in the eastern U.S. reported new record high temperatures for the date, including Madison WI with a reading of 71 degrees. Afternoon highs of 68 degrees at Houghton Lake MI and 72 degrees at Flint MI smashed their previous records for the date by fourteen degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - A cold front brought wintry weather to the north central U.S. Snowfall totals in northwestern Minnesota ranged up to eight inches at Roseau and Hallock. Winds in South Dakota gusted to 61 mph at Brookings. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - While arctic cold gripped the northeastern U.S., unseasonably warm weather prevailed across the southwestern states. Albany NY reported a record low of 2 degrees below zero. Tucson AZ reported a record high of 90 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - Late afternoon thunderstorms produced severe weather in east central Iowa and west central Illinois. Thunderstorms spawned a tornado south of Augusta IL which traveled 42 miles to Marbleton. Golf ball size hail was reported at Peoria IL and near Vermont IL. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
2004 - The California coast warms up. San Francisco broke a 112-year record by reaching 82 degrees. Los Angeles soared to 93 degrees.
2005 - A line of strong to severe thunderstorms affected the eastern portions of North and South Carolina, with wind damage and a few tornadoes reported. Winds gusted over 70 MPH with some of the stronger storms. 
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Weather History
For Monday, March 9, 2015
1956 - A whopping 367 inches of snow was measured on the ground at the Ranier Paradise Ranger Station in Washington. The snow depth was a state record and the second highest total of record for the continental U.S. (The Weather Channel)
1960 - A winter storm produced a narrow band of heavy snow from north central Kentucky into Virginia and the mountains of North Carolina. Snowfall amounts ranged from 12 to 24 inches, with drifts up to eleven feet high in western Virginia. (David Ludlum)
1987 - Gale force winds ushered arctic air into the north central U.S. Some places were 50 degrees colder than the previous day. Northeast winds, gusting to 60 mph, produced 8 to 15 foot waves on Lake Michigan causing more than a million dollars damage along the southeastern shoreline of Wisconsin. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - A cold front brought high winds to the southwestern U.S. Winds in the Las Vegas Valley of Nevada gusted to 70 mph, and one person was injured by a falling tree. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Twenty-two cities in the southwestern U.S. reported new record high temperatures for the date. In New Mexico, afternoon highs of 72 at Los Alamos, 76 at Ruidoso, and 79 at Quemado, were records for March. (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - Evening thunderstorms produced severe weather in West Texas. Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 71 mph at Lubbock, and golf ball size hail was reported at several other locations. Strong thunderstorm winds injured two persons north of the town of Canyon. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)  
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Weather History
For Tuesday, March 10, 2015
1912 - The barometric pressure reached 29.26 inches at Los Angeles, CA, and 29.46 inches at San Diego CA, setting all-time records for those two locations. (David Ludlum)
1922 - Dodge City, KS, reported a record 24 hour total of 17.5 inches of snow. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Strong northwesterly winds ushered arctic air into the eastern U.S. Gales lashed the middle and northern Atlantic coast. Winds gusted to 50 mph at Manteo NC and Cape Hatteras NC. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - A winter storm produced snow and high winds in the Central Rocky Mountain Region. Snowfall totals in Utah ranged up to 42 inches at Alta, with 36 inches reported at the Brian Head Ski Resort in 24 hours. Winds gusted to 72 mph at La Junta CO and Artesia NM. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Thirty-four cities in the central and southwestern U.S. reported new record high temperatures for the date. The high of 85 degrees at Hanksville UT was a record for March, and Pueblo CO equalled their March record of 86 degrees. Hill City KS warmed from a morning low of 30 degrees to an afternoon high of 89 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - Thunderstorms developing along a warm front produced severe weather from southeast Iowa to central Indiana and north central Kentucky. Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 65 mph at Fort Knox KY, and hail two inches in diameter west of Lebanon IN. Evening thunderstorms over central Oklahoma deluged Guthrie with 4.5 inches of rain. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
2010 - As many as four people are injured, one is killed and homes were damaged in Center Hill and Pearson, AR, by an EF2 tornado. 
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Weather History
For Wednesday, March 11, 2015
1911 - Tamarack, CA, reported 451 inches of snow on the ground, a record for the U.S. (David Ludlum)
1948 - Record cold followed in the wake of a Kansas blizzard. Lows of -25 degrees at Oberlin, Healy and Quinter established a state record for the month of March. Lows of -15 at Dodge City, -11 at Concordia, and -3 at Wichita were also March records. (The Weather Channel)
1962 - One of the most paralyzing snowstorms in decades produced record March snowfalls in Iowa. Four feet of snow covered the ground at Inwood following the storm. (David Ludlum)
1987 - Unseasonably cold weather prevailed in the southeastern U.S., and a storm over the Gulf of Mexico spread rain and sleet and snow into the Appalachian Region. Sleet was reported in southern Mississippi. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - A blizzard raged across the north central U.S. Chadron NE was buried under 33 inches of snow, up to 25 inches of snow was reported in eastern Wyoming, and totals in the Black Hills of South Dakota ranged up to 69 inches at Lead. Winds gusted to 63 mph at Mullen NE. Snow drifts thirty feet high were reported around Lusk WY. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Twenty-one cities in the central and southwestern U.S. reported new record high temperatures for the date. The afternoon high of 95 degrees at Lubbock TX equalled their record for March. (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - Forty-four cities in the central and eastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. Record highs included 71 degrees at Dickinson ND and Williston ND, and 84 degrees at Lynchburg VA, Charleston WV and Huntington WV. Augusta GA and Columbia SC tied for honors as the hot spot in the nation with record highs of 88 degrees. A vigorous cold front produced up to three feet of snow in the mountains of Utah. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
2006 - Phoenix's record run for dry days finally ends at 143 days. The last measured rain fell on October 18, 2005. Not only did the rain break the dry spell, the 1.40 inches that fell was a record amount for the date. 
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For Thursday, March 12, 2015
1888 - A blizzard paralyzed southeastern New York State and western New England. The storm produced 58 inches of snow at Saratoga NY, and 50 inches at Middletown CT. The blizzard was followed by record cold temperatures, and the cold and snow claimed 400 lives. New York City received 20.9 inches of snow, Albany NY reported 46.7 inches. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1954 - A blizzard raged from eastern Wyoming into the Black Hills of western South Dakota, while a severe ice storm was in progress from northeastern Nebraska to central Iowa. The ice storm isolated 153 towns in Iowa. Dust from the Great Plains caused brown snow, and hail and muddy rain over parts of Wisconsin and Michigan. (11th-13th) (The Weather Channel)
1967 - A tremendous four day storm raged across California. Winds of 90 mph closed mountain passes, heavy rains flooded the lowlands, and in sixty hours Squaw Valley CA was buried under 96 inches (eight feet) of snow. (David Ludlum)
1987 - Unseasonably cold weather prevailed in the southeastern U.S., with gale force winds along the Middle Atlantic Coast. A storm in the Pacific Northwest produced rain and gale force winds. Crescent City CA received 2.27 inches of rain in 24 hours. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - A powerful storm produced high winds and heavy snow in the Upper Mississippi Valley and the Upper Great Lakes Region. Winds gusting to 70 mph produced snow drifts six feet high in Minnesota, and sent twelve foot waves on Lake Superior over the breakwalls of the ship canal at Duluth MN. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - An early season heat wave continued in the southwestern and central U.S. Nineteen cities reported record high temperatures for the date. Wichita Falls TX, which six days earlier reported a record low of 8 above, reported a record high of 95 degrees. Childress TX was the first spot in the country in 1989 to hit the century mark. (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - Unseasonably warm weather prevailed from the Southern and Central Plains to the Southern and Middle Atlantic Coast, with afternoon highs in the 70s and 80s. Seventy-six cities reported record high temperatures for the date. Downtown Baltimore MD was the hot spot in the nation with a record high of 95 degrees, which smashed their previous record for the date by nineteen degrees. Other record highs included 89 degrees at Washington D.C. and 90 degrees at Raleigh NC. (The National Weather Summary)
2006 - High school senior Matt Suter survives being blown 1,307 feet by a tornado. (The exact distance is determined by NWS GPS.) The twister rips open his grandmother's mobile home and tosses Suter into the night, launching him over a barbed wire fence and eventually depositing him on the soft grass in an open field. He suffers only a head wound from being hit by a lamp. The Weather Doctor's Diary 
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For Sunday, March 13, 2016
1907 - A storm produced a record 5.22 inches of rain in 24 hours at Cincinnati, OH. (12th-13th) (The Weather Channel)
1951 - The state of Iowa experienced a record snowstorm. The storm buried Iowa City under 27 inches of snow. (David Ludlum)
1977 - Baltimore, MD, received an inch of rain in eight minutes. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987)
1987 - A winter storm produced heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada Range of California, and the Lake Tahoe area of Nevada. Mount Rose NV received 18 inches of new snow. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Unseasonably cold weather prevailed from the Plateau Region to the Appalachians. Chadron NE, recently buried 33 inches of snow, was the cold spot in the nation with a low of 19 degrees below zero. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Residents of the southern U.S. viewed a once in a life-time display of the Northern Lights. Unseasonably warm weather continued in the southwestern U.S. The record high of 88 degrees at Tucson AZ was their seventh in a row. In southwest Texas, the temperature at Sanderson soared from 46 degrees at 8 AM to 90 degrees at 11 AM. (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from northwest Texas to Wisconsin, Iowa and Nebraska during the day, and into the night. Severe thunderstorms spawned 59 tornadoes, including twenty-six strong or violent tornadoes, and there were about two hundred reports of large hail or damaging winds. There were forty-eight tornadoes in Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa, and some of the tornadoes in those three states were the strongest of record for so early in the season, and for so far northwest in the United States. The most powerful tornado of the day was one which tore through the central Kansas community of Hesston. The tornado killed two persons, injured sixty others, and caused 22 million dollars along its 67-mile path. The tornado had a life span of two hours. Another tornado tracked 124 miles across southeastern Nebraska injuring eight persons and causing more than five million dollars damage 
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Weather History
For Monday, March 14, 2016
1870 - The term blizzard was first applied to a storm which produced heavy snow and high winds in Minnesota and Iowa. (David Ludlum)
1944 - A single storm brought a record 21.6 inches of snow to Salt Lake City UT. (The Weather Channel)
1960 - Northern Georgia was between snowstorms. Gainesville GA received 17 inches of snow during the month, and reported at least a trace of snow on the ground 22 days in March. Snow was on roofs in Hartwell GA from the 2nd to the 29th. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - A powerful storm in the western U.S. produced 15 inches of snow in the Lake Tahoe Basin of Nevada, and wind gusts to 50 mph at Las Vegas NV. Thunderstorms in the Sacramento Valley of California spawned a tornado which hit a turkey farm near Corning. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Squalls in the Great Lakes Region continued to produce heavy snow in northwest Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, and produced up to 14 inches of snow in northeast Ohio. Poplar WI reported 27 inches of snow in two days. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - High winds in Colorado and Wyoming gusted above 120 mph at Horsetooth Heights CO. High winds in the Central Plains sharply reduced visibilities in blowing dust as far east as Kansas City MO. Winds gusting to 72 mph at Hill City KS reduced the visibility to a city block in blowing dust. Soil erosion in northwest Kansas damaged nearly five million acres of wheat. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - Fifty-three cities reported record high temperatures for the date as readings warmed into the 70s and 80s from the Gulf coast to the Great Lakes Region. Charleston WV was the hot spot in the nation with a record high of 89 degrees. It was the fourth of five consecutive days with record warm tempeatures for many cities in the eastern U.S. There were 283 daily record highs reported in the central and eastern U.S. during between the 11th and the 15th of March. (The National Weather Summary)
2007 - The temperature in Concord, NH, reaches a record high of 74 degrees less than one week after a record low temperature of 7 degrees below zero on March 8, an 81 degree temperature swing in six days. 
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Weather History
For Tuesday, March 15, 2016
1941 - The most severe blizzard in modern history struck North Dakota and Minnesota. The blizzard hit on a Saturday night while many are traveling, and thus claimed 71 lives. Winds gusted to 75 mph at Duluth MN, and reached 85 mph at Grand Forks ND. Snow drifts twelve feet high were reported in north central Minnesota. A cold front traveling 30 mph crossed Minnesota in just seven hours. (15th-16th) (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1987 - A winter storm in the western U.S. produced heavy snow in central Nevada, with 23 inches reported at Austin. High winds raked the desert areas of southern California and southern Arizona. Winds gusted to 59 mph at Douglas AZ. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - More than one hundred hours of continuous snow finally came to an end at Marquette MI, during which time the city was buried under 43 inches of snow. Unseasonably cold weather prevailed in the southeastern U.S., with forty-one cities reporting record low temperatures for the date. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Afternoon and evening thunderstorms produced severe weather from Alabama to the Middle Atlantic Coast. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 80 at Virginia Beach VA. Low pressure in southeastern Ontario produced high winds in the northeastern U.S. Winds gusted to 70 mph at Saint Albins VT. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - Low pressure crossing the Upper Mississippi Valley produced high winds from the Northern and Central Plains to the Great Lakes Region and Ohio Valley. Winds gusted to 73 mph at Iowa City IA, and wind gusts reached 79 mph at Waukesha WI. Winds of 75 mph were reported around Rapid City SD, with gusts to 100 mph. Up to a foot of snow was reported in western Iowa, western Minnesota, and extreme eastern North Dakota. Blizzard conditions were reported in northeastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
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Weather History
For Wednesday, March 16, 2016
1942 - Two tornadoes, 24 minutes apart, struck Baldwin, MS, resulting in 65 deaths. (David Ludlum)
1975 - A single storm brought 119 inches of snow to Crater Lake, O,R establishing a state record. (The Weather Channel)
1986 - A small but rare tornado touched down perilously close to Disneyland in Anaheim CA. (Storm Data)
1987 - Softball size hail caused millions of dollars damage to automobiles at Del Rio TX. Three persons were injured when hailstones crashed through a shopping mall skylight. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) (The Weather Channel)
1988 - A winter storm produced heavy snow in the Central Rockies. Winds gusted to 80 mph at Centerville UT. Eighteen cities in the southeastern U.S. reported new record low temperatures for the date, including Tallahassee FL with a reading of 24 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - A winter storm brought heavy snow and high winds to the southwestern U.S. Winds gusted to 60 mph at Lovelock NV, Salt Lake City UT, and Fort Carson CO. Snow fell at a rate of three inches per hour in the Lake Tahoe area of Nevada. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - Thunderstorms developing ahead of a cold front produced large hail and damaging winds from northwest Florida to western South Carolina. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 75 mph at Floridatown FL. Sixteen cities across the northeastern quarter of the nation reported record high temperatures for the date. The afternoon high of 78 degrees at Burlington VT smashed their previous record for the date by 23 degrees. New York City reported a record high of 82 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
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For Thursday, March 17, 2016
1892 - A winter storm in southwestern and central Tennessee produced 26 inches of snow at Riddleton, and 18.5 inches at Memphis. It was the deepest snow of record for those areas. (David Ludlum)
1906 - The temperature at Snake River, WY, dipped to 50 degrees below zero, a record for the U.S. for the month of March. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987)
1987 - A powerful spring storm produced severe thunderstorms over the Central Gulf Coast States, and heavy snow in the High Plains Region. A tornado caused three million dollars damage at Natchez MS, and six inches of rain in five hours caused five million dollars damage at Vicksburg MS. Cactus TX received 10 inches of snow. Western Kansas reported blizzard conditions. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - A winter storm produced heavy snow from the northeast Texas panhandle to the Ozark area of Missouri and Arkansas. Up to fifteen inches of snow was reported in Oklahoma and Texas. Snowfall totals in the Ozark area ranged up to 14 inches, with unofficial reports as high as 22 inches around Harrison AR. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Strong northerly winds ushered snow and arctic cold into the north central U.S. Winds gusted to 58 mph at Sydney NE and Scottsbluff NE, Cadillac MI received 12 inches of snow, and International Falls MN reported a record low of 22 degrees below zero. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - Showers and thunderstorms associated with a slow moving cold front produced torrential rains across parts of the southeastern U.S. over a two day period. Flooding claimed the lives of at least 22 persons, including thirteen in Alabama. Up to 16 inches of rain deluged southern Alabama, with 10.63 inches reported at Mobile AL in 24 hours. The town of Elba AL was flooded with 6 to 12 feet of water causing more than 25 million dollars damage, and total flood damage across Alabama exceeded 100 million dollars. Twenty-six counties in the state were declared disaster areas. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
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Weather History
For Friday, March 18, 2016
1925 - The great Tri-State Tornado occurred, the most deadly tornado in U.S. history. The tornado claimed 695 lives (including 234 at Murphysboro IL and 148 at West Frankfort IL), and caused seventeen million dollars property damage. It cut a swath of destruction 219 miles long and as much as a mile wide from east central Missouri to southern Indiana between 1 PM and 4 PM. The tornado leveled a school in West Frankfort IL, and picked up sixteen students setting them down unharmed 150 yards away. Seven other tornadoes claimed an additional 97 lives that day. (David Ludlum)
1971 - High winds accompanied a low pressure system from the Rocky Mountains to the Great Lakes. Winds gusted to 100 mph at Hastings NE, and reached 115 mph at Hays KS. High winds caused two million dollars damage in Kansas. Fire burned 50,000 forest acres in eastern Oklahoma. (17th-19th) (The Weather Channel)
1987 - A storm in the central U.S. produced up to 10 inches of snow in western Nebraska, and up to six inches of rain in eastern sections of the state. The heavy rains pushed the Elkhorn River out of its banks, submerging the streets of Inman under three feet of water. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Light rain and snow prevailed east of the Mississippi River. Fair weather prevailed west of the Mississippi. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - A storm in the western U.S. produced heavy rain in California, with heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada Range. Venado CA was drenched with 5.40 inches of rain in 24 hours. A dozen cities in the eastern U.S. reported new record high temperatures for the date, including Baltimore MD with a reading of 82 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - Heavy rain caused extensive flooding of rivers and streams in Georgia, with total damage running well into the millions. Flooding also claimed six lives. Nearly seven inches of rain caused 2.5 million dollars damage around Columbus, and up to nine inches of rain was reported over the northern Kinchafoonee Basin in Georgia. (Storm Data) 
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Weather History
For Saturday, March 19, 2016
1935 - Suffocating dust storms occurred frequently in southeastern Colorado between the 12th and the 25th of the month. Six people died, and many livestock starved or suffocated. Up to six feet of dust covered the ground. Schools were closed, and many rural homes were deserted by tenants. (The Weather Channel)
1950 - Timberline Lodge reported 246 inches of snow on the ground, a record for the state of Oregon. (The Weather Channel)
1956 - The second heavy snowstorm in just three days hit Boston. Nearby Blue Hill received 19.5 inches contributing to their snowiest March of record. (David Ludlum)
1987 - A storm in the western U.S. produced rain and snow from the northern and central Pacific coast to the northern and central Rockies. Heavier snowfall totals included 13 inches at Clear Creek UT, 12 inches at Snow Camp CA and Glacier Park MT, and 10 inches at Kayenta AZ. Wind gusts reached 54 mph at Winslow AZ. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Seven cities in California and Nevada reported record high temperatures for the date as readings soared into the 80s and lower 90s. Los Angeles CA reported a record high of 89 degrees. Five cities in south central Texas reported record lows, including El Paso, with a reading of 22 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Six cities reported new record low temperatures for the date as cold arctic air settled into the Upper Midwest for Palm Sunday, including Marquette MI with a reading of 11 degrees below zero. (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - Rather wintry weather in the eastern U.S. replaced the 80 degree weather of the previous week. Freezing temperatures were reported in northern sections of the Gulf Coast States, and snow began to whiten the Northern and Central Appalachians. Up to eight inches of snow was reported in western Virginia. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
2003 - Denver digs out from the second-biggest snowstorm in the city's history. Almost two and a half feet of wet snow over 36 hours shuts down the city. The month ends as Denver's snowiest March on record. 
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Weather History
For Sunday, March 20, 2016
1924 - A late winter storm in Oklahoma produced nearly a foot of snow at Oklahoma City and at Tulsa. (David Ludlum)
1948 - The city of Juneau received 31 inches of snow in 24 hours, a record for the Alaska capitol. (20th-21st) (David Ludlum)
1984 - A severe three day winter storm came to an end over the Central Plains. The storm produced up to twenty inches of snow in Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas, and left a thick coat of ice from eastern Kansas across northwestern Missouri into Iowa. (Storm Data)
1987 - A storm produced blizzard conditions in Wyoming and eastern Nebraska, and severe thunderstorms in central Nebraska. Snowfall totals ranged up to 12 inches at Glenrock WY and Chadron NE. Thunderstorms in central Nebraska produced wind gusts to 69 mph at Valentine, and wind gusts to 76 mph at Bartley. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Squalls in the Great Lakes Region left up to eight inches of new snow on the ground in time for the official start of spring. Unseasonably warm weather prevailed in the western U.S. Seven cities reported new record high temperatures for the date, including Tucson AZ with a reading of 89 degrees. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Snow and high winds created blizzard conditions in western Kansas to usher in the official start of the spring season. Thunderstorms produced severe weather from east Texas to Alabama and northwest Florida, with nearly fifty reports of large hail and damaging winds during the afternoon and evening hours. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - The northeastern U.S. was in the midst of a snowstorm as spring officially began at 4 19 PM. Snowfall totals in the Green Mountains of Vermont ranged up to thirty inches, and up to 15 inches of snow was reported in the Catskills and Adirondacks of eastern New York State. Totals in eastern Pennsylvania ranged up to 12 inches at Armenia Mountain. The storm resulted in one death, and forty-nine injuries. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
2005 - An F1 tornado hits South San Francisco. Trees are uprooted. At least twenty homes and twenty businesses are damaged, including the city's new fire station.
2006 - Grand Island, NE, receives 17.8 inches of snow in 24 hours, breaking the old local record for the most snowfall in a day by 4.8 inches. 29.7 inches in 48 hours also breaks a record. 
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Weather History
For Monday, March 21, 2016
1932 - A tornado swarm occurred in the Deep South. Between late afternoon and early the next morning severe thunderstorms spawned 31 tornadoes in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Tennessee. The tornadoes killed 334 persons and injured 1784 others. Northern Alabama was hardest hit. Tornadoes in Alabama killed 286 persons and caused five million dollars damage. (David Ludlum)
1952 - Severe thunderstorms spawned thirty-one tornadoes across Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama and Kentucky. The tornadoes killed 343 persons and caused 15 million dollars damage. Arkansas and Tennessee each reported thirteen tornadoes. The towns of Judsonia AR and Henderson TN were nearly wiped off the map in what proved to be the worst tornado outbreak of record for Arkansas. A tornado, one and a half miles wide at times, left a church the only undamaged building at Judsonia. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1987 - A winter storm in the Northern High Plains Region produced blizzard conditions in western South Dakota. Winds gusted to 70 mph at Rapid City SD, and snowfall totals ranged up to 20 inches at Lead SD. The high winds produced snow drifts six feet high. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Bitterly cold weather prevailed across the northeastern U.S. Portland ME reported their coldest spring day of record with a morning low of 5 above, and an afternoon high of just 21 degrees. Marquette MI reported a record low of 15 degrees below zero. (The National Weather Summary) (The Weather Channel)
1989 - Snow blanketed the northeastern U.S. early in the day, with six inches reported at Rutland VT. Morning and afternoon thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds from southwestern Mississippi to southwest Georgia. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - The first full day of spring was a cold one for the eastern U.S. Freezing temperatures damaged 62 percent of the peach crop in upstate South Carolina, and 72 percent of the peach crop in the ridge area of South Carolina. Elkins WV, which a week earlier reported a record high of 82 degrees, was the cold spot in the nation with a morning low of 16 degrees. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 
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Weather History
For Tuesday, March 22, 2016
1920 - A spectactular display of the Northern Lights was visible as far south as Bradenton FL, El Paso TX, and Fresno CA. At Detroit MI, the display was described so brilliant as to blot out all stars below first magnitude. (22nd-23rd) (The Weather Channel)
1936 - A great flood crested on rivers from Ohio to Maine. The flood claimed 107 lives and caused 270 million dollars property damage. (David Ludlum)
1954 - Six to ten inch rains caused the Chicago River to overflow its banks. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - An intense storm produced heavy snow in the southern and central Rockies, and high winds from southern California to West Texas. Wolf Creek Pass CO received 24 inches of snow, and winds gusted to 69 mph at Ruidoso NM. Blizzard conditions were reported in eastern Colorado. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Rain and high winds battered the Northern Pacific Coast Region, with wind gusts to 78 mph at Ocean Shores WA. The high winds uprooted trees and down power lines. Ten cities in the northeastern U.S. reported new record low temperatures for the date. Eight cities in the central U.S. reported record highs. Southerly winds gusting to 60 mph helped push the mercury at Ottumwa IA to a record warm reading of 83 degrees. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Six cities in the Great Lakes Region, and three in southern Texas, reported new record low temperatures for the date, including Alpena MI with a reading of 9 above zero, and Brownsville TX with a reading of 38 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - A surge of arctic air kept temperatures in the teens and 20s during the day in the north central U.S., and heavy snow fell over parts of Montana. Record warmth was reported in the western U.S.,and in Alaska. Phoenix AZ reported a record high of 94 degrees, and the town of Barrow, located along the arctic coast of Alaska, reported a record high of 20 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) 
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Weather History
For Wednesday, March 23, 2016
1913 - A vicious tornado hit the city of Omaha, NE. The tornado struck during the late afternoon on Easter Sunday, and in just twelve minutes cut a swath of total destruction five miles long and two blocks wide across the city killing 94 persons and causing 3.5 million dollars property damage. (David Ludlum)
1916 - Pocatello, ID, received a record 14.6 inches of snow in 24 hours. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - A blizzard raged across western Kansas, and the panhandle of Texas and Oklahoma. Pampa TX received 21 inches of snow, and winds gusted to 78 mph at Dodge City KS Altus OK. Governor Hayden declared forty-six counties in western Kansas a disaster area. In southwest Kansas, the storm was described as the worst in thirty years. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Thunderstorms developing along a strong cold front spawned tornadoes near Roberts ID and Bridger MT. Strong and gusty winds prevailed in the western U.S. Wind gusts in the southwest part of Reno NV reached 89 mph. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Charlotte and Wilmington, NC, reported rainfall records for the date as showers and thunderstorms prevailed in the southeastern U.S. Freezing rain glazed parts of North Carolina and southern Virginia. Gale force winds produced a heavy surf along the coast of North Carolina. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - An upper level storm system produced heavy snow in the Lower Missouri Valley. Snowfall totals ranged up to nine inches at Kansas City MO, with eight inches reported at Falls City NE, Columbia MO and Saint Louis MO. Thunderstorms produced heavy snow in the Kansas City area during the evening rush hour. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
2007 - A trailer is thrown through a bowling alley as a tornado moves through Clovis, NM. About 100 homes and businesses are destroyed, at least three schools are damaged and telephone poles are snapped. Thirteen tornadoes struck a dozen communities along the New Mexico/Texas border. Two people were critically injured.
2011 - A series of tornados are spawned from severe thunderstorms in Pennsylvania. In Hempfield Township dozens of homes and a high school auditorium where students are rehearsing a play are severely damaged. 
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Weather History
For Thursday, March 24, 2016
1912 - Residents of Kansas City began to dig out from a storm produced 25 inches of snow in 24 hours. The snowfall total was nearly twice that of any other storm of modern record in Kansas City before or since that time. A record 40 inches of snow fell during the month of March that year, and the total for the winter season of 67 inches was also a record. By late February of that year Kansas City had received just six inches of snow. Olathe KS received 37 inches of snow in the snowstorm, establishing a single storm record for the state of Kansas. (23rd-24th) (The Kansas City Weather Almanac) (The Weather Channel)
1987 - A winter-like storm in the central U.S. produced blizzard conditions from South Dakota to western Kansas. Snowfall totals ranged up to 24 inches at Neligh NE, with 19 inches at Winner SD. Winds gusting to 60 mph created twelve foot snow drifts in Nebraska stranding thousands on the highways. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Thunderstorms developing along a cold front produced severe weather from Minnesota to northeastern Texas. The thunderstorms spawned ten tornadoes, including one which injured five persons near Raymondville MO. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Low pressure off the coast of Virginia brought heavy rain to the Middle Atlantic Coast States, and heavy snow to the Northern Appalachians. Cape Hatteras NC was soaked with 5.20 inches of rain in 24 hours, and snowfall totals in Vermont ranged up to 12 inches. Winds gusted to 52 mph at New York City. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - The storm system which produced heavy snow in the Lower Missouri Valley the previous day, spread heavy snow across parts of the Upper Ohio Valley and the Middle Atlantic Coast Region. Snowfall totals of 2.2 inches at Philadelphia PA and 2.4 inches at Atlantic City NJ were records for the date. Up to six inches of snow blanketed southern Ohio. In the Middle Atlantic Coast Region, snow coated the blossoms of cherry trees which had bloomed in 80 degree weather the previous week. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 
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Weather History
For Friday, March 25, 2016
1843 - A second great snowstorm hit the northeastern U.S. The storm produced snow from Maine all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. Natchez MS received three inches of snow, and up to 15 inches buried eastern Tennessee. Coastal Maine received 204 inches of snow that winter. (David Ludlum)
1914 - Society Hill, SC, was buried under 18 inches of snow, establishing a state record. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987)
1934 - A spring storm produced 21 inches of snow at Amarillo TX in 24 hours. However, much of the snow melted as it fell, and as a result, the snow cover was never any deeper than 4.5 inches. (David Ludlum)
1948 - For the second time in less than a week airplanes were destroyed by a tornado at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma City OK. A March 20th tornado destroyed fifty planes at Tinker AFB causing more than ten million dollars damage, and the March 25th tornado destroyed another thirty-five planes causing six million dollars damage. The first tornado struck without warning, and caused more damage than any previous tornado in the state of Oklahoma. The second tornado was predicted by Fawbush and Miller of the United States Air Force, and their accurate tornado forecast ushered in the modern era of severe weather forecasting. (The Weather Channel) (Storm Data) (The National Severe Storms Forecast Center)
1975 - The town of Sandberg reported a wind gust to 101 mph, a record for the state of California. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Heavy rain left rivers and streams swollen in Kansas and Nebraska, causing considerable crop damage due to flooding of agricultural areas. The Saline River near Wilson Reservoir in central Kansas reached its highest level since 1951. March rainfall at Grand Island NE exceeded their previous record of 5.57 inches. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - An early season heat wave prevailed in the southwestern U.S. The high of 93 degrees at Tucson, AZ, was a new record for March. Windy conditions prevailed across the central and eastern U.S. Winds gusted to 60 mph at Minneapolis MN, and reached 120 mph atop Rendezvous Peak WY. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - A Pacific storm brought wet weather to much of the western third of the country, with heavy snow in some of the higher elevations. La Porte CA was drenched with 3.56 inches of rain in 24 hours. Up to 24 inches of snow blanketed the Sierra Nevada Range. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - Temperatures dipped below zero in the Northern Rocky Mountain Region. Hardin MT was the cold spot in the nation with a morning low of 10 degrees below zero. Freezing drizzle was reported in the Southern Plains Region, with afternoon highs only in the 30s from the Southern High Plains to Missouri and Arkansas. (The National Weather Summary) 
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Weather History
For Saturday, March 26, 2016
1913 - The Ohio River Basin flood reached a peak. Ten inch rains over a wide area of the Ohio River Basin inundated cities in Ohio, drowning 467 persons, and causing 147 million dollars damage. The Miami River at Dayton reached a level eight feet higher than ever before. The flood, caused by warm weather and heavy rains, was the second mostly deadly of record for the nation. (David Ludlum)
1954 - The temperature at Allaket, AK, plunged to 69 degrees below zero. (The Weather Channel)
1971 - Parts of northern and central Georgia experienced their worst snow and ice storm since 1935. Two day power outages ruined two million eggs at poultry hatches. Two persons were killed when a tree landed on their car. (25th-26th) (The Weather Channel)
1987 - A cold front crossing the Plateau Region produced high winds in Utah causing some property damage. Winds gusted to 51 mph at Salt Lake City. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Twenty cities in the southwestern U.S. reported new record high temperatures for the date. Afternoon highs of 73 degrees at Flagstaff AZ, 90 degrees at Sacramento CA, 95 degrees at Santa Maria CA, 95 degrees at Los Angeles CA, 99 degrees at Tucson AZ, and 100 degrees at Phoenix AZ set records for March. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - The Easter Bunny brought record warm temperatures to the central U.S. while such records were still welcome. A dozen cities reported record warm readings, including Dodge City KS with an afternoon high of 88 degrees. Strong southerly winds gusted to 51 mph at Dodge City, and reached 55 mph at Salina KS. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - Fair weather prevailed across the nation for the second day in a row. Freezing temperatures were reported in the Middle Atlantic Coast Region in the wake of an early spring snowstorm. Afternoon highs were again in the 70s and 80s in the southeastern U.S., and for the ninth day in a row, temperatures in the southwestern U.S. reached the 90s. (The National Weather Summary) 
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Weather History
For Sunday, March 27, 2016
1890 - An outbreak of tornadoes occurred in the Ohio Valley. One of the tornadoes struck Louisville KY killing 78 persons and causing four million dollars damage. (David Ludlum)
1950 - A three day snowstorm in the High Plains Region finally came to an end. The storm produced 34 inches of snow in 24 hours at Dumont, located in the Black Hills of South Dakota, and a total of 50 inches. (David Ludlum)
1984 - The temperature at Brownsville, TX, soared to 106 degrees, and Cotulla, TX, reached 108 degrees, equalling the March record for the U.S. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - The second blizzard in less than a week hit eastern Colorado and western Kansas. Snowfall totals ranged up to 24 inches at San Isabel CO. Winds gusted to 50 mph at Goodland KS. The high winds piled snow into massive drifts, closing roads for days and killing thousands of cattle. Snow drifts thirty feet high were reported in northwest Kansas. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Temperatures rose quickly, then dropped just as rapidly, in the central U.S. Eight cities reported record high temperatures for the date as readings soared into the 80s. In southeastern Colorado, the temperature at Lamar CO reached 91 degrees. Strong southerly winds gusted to 63 mph at Gage OK. Strong northwesterly winds, gusting to 61 mph at Goodland KS, then proceeded to usher much colder air into the area. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Afternoon and evening thunderstorms produced severe weather in the south central U.S. Two tornadoes were reported, and there were 77 other reports of large hail and damaging winds. Baseball size hail was reported at Willow OK and Bartlesville OK. Twenty-six cities in the central and eastern U.S. reported new record high temperatures for the date, including Yankton SD with a reading of 84 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - Temperatures dipped into the teens and single numbers in the northeastern U.S. Scranton PA tied their record for the date with a morning low of 18 degrees. Temperatures warmed into the 60s and lower 70s in the Pacific Northwest. The afternoon high of 65 degrees at Astoria OR equalled their record for the date. (The National Weather Summary) 
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Weather History
For Monday, March 28, 2016
1917 - Thane Creek, AK, reported a snow cover of 190 inches. (The Weather Channel)
1920 - The worst tornado disaster of record occurred in Chicago IL as a tornado killed 28 persons and caused three million dollars damage. (David Ludlum)
1984 - A violent outbreak of tornadoes hit the Carolinas. Thunderstorms spawned 22 tornadoes during the late afternoon and evening hours which killed 57 persons and injured 1248 others. Nearly half the deaths occurred in mobile homes. A tornado from near Tatum SC to southern Cumberland County NC was 2.5 miles in width at times. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - A blizzard raged from southern Nebraska to central Iowa. Snowfall totals ranged up to 17 inches at Blue Hill NE. Winds gusted to 68 mph at Carroll IA. High winds produced snow drifts twenty feet high in western Iowa, and produced wind chill readings as cold as 30 degrees below zero in Nebraska. The snowfall total of 9.4 inches at Omaha NE was a record for the date. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Severe thunderstorms in central Oklahoma produced hail up to four inches in diameter causing 35 million dollars in southern Oklahoma County. Baseball size hail and seven inches of rain caused another eighteen million dollars damage in Stephens County. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Unseasonably warm weather prevailed from the Southern and Central Plains to the Atlantic coast. Eighteen cities reported new record high temperatures for the date. The afternoon high of 81 degrees at Beckley WV was a record for March, and the high of 90 degrees in downtown Baltimore MD tied their March record. (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - A storm system brought heavy snow to the west central and southern mountains of Wyoming, and high winds to the Wasatch Mountains of northern Utah. Snowfall totals in Wyoming ranged up to ten inches at the Snowy Ski Range Area, and the storm pushed the snowfall total for the month at Cheyenne above 37 inches, surpassing their previous record for March of 35 inches. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
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Weather History
For Tuesday, March 29, 2016
1886 - Atlanta, GA, was drenched with a record 7.36 inches of rain in 24 hours. (The Weather Channel)
1920 - Clear Spring, MD, received 31 inches of snow in 24 hours to establish a state record. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987)
1921 - The temperature in Washington D.C. dropped from 82 degrees to 26 degrees thus ending an early spring. (David Ludlum)
1935 - A severe duststorm blanketed Amarillo, TX, for 84 hours. During one six hour period the visibility was near zero. (28th-31st) (The Weather Channel)
1945 - Providence, RI, hit 90 degrees to establish a March record for the New England area. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Thunderstorms spawned tornadoes in Mississippi, and produced high winds and heavy rain in Louisiana. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 92 mph at Houma LA, and caused a million dollars damage in Terrebonne Parish. Avondale LA was deluged with 4.52 inches of rain. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Severe thunderstorms in the Lower Mississippi Valley spawned a tornado which injured two persons at Bunkie LA, and produced high winds which down a large tree onto a trailer at Bastrop LA claiming the life of one child and injuring another. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms produced torrential rains in northeastern Texas and southwestern Arkansas. Longview TX reported 14.16 inches of rain. More than eleven inches of rain at Henderson TX caused a dam to give way, and people left stranded in trees had to be rescued by boat. Total damage in northeastern Texas was estimated at 10 to 16 million dollars. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - Thunderstorms developing ahead of a cold front produced severe weather in southeastern Texas and southern Louisiana. Thunderstorms spawned seven tornadoes, including one which injured seven persons at Gray LA. Thunderstorms also produced golf ball size hail and wind gusts to 70 mph at Port O'Conner TX, and produced up to six inches of rain in Beauregard Parish LA. (Storm Data)
2007 - Eighteen year old Corey Williams is killed by a lightning bolt in Carbondale, IL, at the Community High School's first home track meet of the season.
2011 - A record 766 inches of snowfall at Boreal Ski Resort and nearly 59 feet at Squaw Valley in California's Sierra Nevadas are just two areas where snowfall records have been broke. 
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Weather History
For Wednesday, March 30, 2016
1823 - A great Northeast storm with hurricane force winds raged from Pennsylvania to Maine. The storm was most severe over New Jersey with high tides, uprooted trees, and heavy snow inland. (David Ludlum)
1899 - A storm which buried Ruby, CO, under 141 inches of snow came to an end. Ruby was an old abandoned mining town on the Elk Mountain Range in the Crested Butte area. (The Weather Channel)
1977 - Hartford, CT, hit 87 degrees to establish a record for the month of March. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - A storm spread heavy snow across the Ohio Valley and Lower Great Lakes Region. Cleveland OH received sixteen inches of snow in 24 hours, their second highest total of record. Winds gusting to 50 mph created 8 to 12 foot waves on Lake Huron. The storm also ushered unseasonably cold air into the south central and southeastern U.S., with nearly one hundred record lows reported in three days. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - A winter-like storm developed in the Central Rockies. Snowfall totals in Utah ranged up to 15 inches at the Brian Head Ski Resort, and winds in Arizona gusted to 59 mph at Show Low. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Thunderstorms developing along and ahead of a slow moving cold front produced large hail and damaging winds at more than fifty locations across the southeast quarter of the nation, and spawned a tornado which injured eleven persons at Northhampton NC. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - Low pressure produced heavy snow in central Maine and northern New Hampshire, with up to eight inches reported in Maine. A slow moving Pacific storm system produced 18 to 36 inches of snow in the southwestern mountains of Colorado in three days. Heavier snowfall totals included 31 inches at Wolf Creek Pass and 27 inches at the Monarch Ski Area. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 
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Weather History
For Thursday, March 31, 2016
1890 - Saint Louis, MO, received 20 inches of snow in 24 hours. It was the worst snowstorm of record for the St Louis. (David Ludlum)
1954 - The temperature at Rio Grande City, TX, hit 108 degrees, which for thirty years was a U.S. record for the month of March. (The Weather Channel)
1962 - A tornado struck the town of Milton, FL, killing 17 persons and injuring 100 others. It was the worst tornado disaster in Florida history. (David Ludlum)
1973 - A devastating tornado took a nearly continuous 75 mile path through north central Georgia causing more than 113 million dollars damage, the highest total of record for a natural disaster in the state. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - March went out like a lion in the northeastern U.S. A slow moving storm produced heavy snow in the Lower Great Lakes Region, and heavy rain in New England. Heavy rain and melting snow caused catastrophic flooding along rivers and streams in Maine and New Hampshire. Strong southerly winds ahead of the storm gusted to 62 mph at New York City, and reached 87 mph at Milton MA. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - March went out like a lion in eastern Colorado. A winter-like storm produced 42 inches of snow at Lake Isabel, including 20 inches in six hours. Fort Collins reported 15 inches of snow in 24 hours. Winds gusted to 80 mph at Centerville UT. Albuquerque NM received 14 inches of snow. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Afternoon thunderstorms produced severe weather from North Carolina to Pennsylvania. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 76 mph at Cape Henry VA. While squalls blanketed northwest Pennsylvania with up to 9 inches of snow, thunderstorms in eastern Pennsylvania produced golf ball size hail at Avondale. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1990 - The month of March went out just as it came in, like a lamb. Marquette MI, which started the month with a record high of 52 degrees, equalled their record for the date with a reading of 62 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
2010 - Jacksonville, Florida's, record streak of days with high temperatures below 80 degrees comes to an end at 105 days. It was also Jacksonville's first 80 degree reading of the year. The previous latest first 80-degree day was on March 14, 1978. 
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