Historical Weather Events

HISTORICAL WEATHER EVENTS - 26 November

From the files of the Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO and Intellicast

...1888...A late season hurricane brushed the East Coast with heavy rain and gale force winds. The hurricane passed inside Nantucket and over Cape Cod, then crossed Nova Scotia. (David Ludlum)
...1896...Snow and high winds hit the Northern Plains and the Upper Mississippi Valley, with a Thanksgiving Day blizzard across North Dakota. The storm was followed by a severe cold wave in the Upper Midwest. The temperature at Pokegama Dam plunged to 45 degrees below zero, which remains the lowest recorded November temperature in Minnesota. (David Ludlum)
...1974...A record early snow hit Caribou, ME with 22.3 inches in 24 hours and a storm total of 30 inches. (Intellicast)
...1983...A major snowstorm hit from Colorado to Wisconsin from the 26^th to the 28^th. A fairly uniform 1 to 2 feet of snow was reported. Sydney, NE had the most with 27 inches. Blizzard conditions prevailed with wind gusts as high as 60 mph. Limon, CO reported near zero visibility in snow and blowing snow for a solid 24 hours. (Intellicast)
...1987...A Thanksgiving Day storm in the northeastern U.S. produced heavy snow in northern New England and upstate New York. Snowfall totals in Maine ranged up to twenty inches at Flagstaff Lake. Totals in New Hampshire ranged up to 18 inches at Errol. Gales lashed the coast of Maine and New Hampshire. A second storm, over the Southern and Central Rockies, produced nine inches of snow at Kanosh, UT, and 13 inches at Divide, CO, with five inches reported at Denver CO. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1988...Thunderstorms produced severe weather over the Central Gulf Coast States during the late morning and afternoon hours. Five tornadoes were reported in Mississippi, with the tornadoes causing a million dollars damage at Ruleville, and in Warren County. In Utah, the town of Alta was blanketed with 15 inches of snow overnight, and during the day was buried under another 16.5 inches of snow. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
...1989...A massive storm over the western U.S. produced heavy snow in Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. The storm produced more than two feet of snow in the higher elevations of northern and central Utah, bringing more than sixty inches of snow to the Alta Ski Resort in the Wasatch Mountains. Winds in Utah gusted to 60 mph at Bullfrog. The storm brought much needed snow to the ski resorts of Colorado, with 19 inches reported at Beaver Creek. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
...2001...Hurricane Olga reached hurricane status in the western North Atlantic and became the 3rd named storm in November, the record for the month. (National Weather Service files)
...2007...The National Football League's Monday Night Football game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Miami Dolphins was one of the lowest scoring games of all time: the Steelers won 3-0 in the last 17 seconds. The low score was caused by muddy conditions brought on by a day-long rain and a lightning delay. (National Weather Service files)