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11/1
1991: In Charleston, WV visibility was 1/8 mile in smoke and falling ash from brush fires that started in late October.
11/2
1976: Two light aircraft were struck by lightning while in flight over Boston, Massachusetts.  There were no injuries.
11/3
1961 (3rd-4th):  Residents of Casper, Wyoming saw snow fall during a rare November thunderstorm.
11/4
1979: 100 mph chinook winds roared east of the Rockies in MT and CO. In Boulder, winds blew from zephyrs to 90 mph in seconds.
11/5
1977: 9 inch rains across north GA caused the earthen Toccoa Dam to burst, killing 41 people at a nearby college and park.
11/6
1988: 17.3 inches of snow in 24 hours established a November record in Marquette, Michigan.
11/7
1951: At 7 AM a blinding flash, a huge fireball & a loud roar occurred over TX, OK and KS, as a meteor disintegrated.
11/8
1953: New York City residents suffered through 10 days of smog. 200 people died.
11/9
1982: 7 tornadoes hit southern California, 3 beginning as waterspouts that moved ashore at Point Mugu, Malibu & Long Beach.
11/10
1975: A freshwater fury on Lake Superior sank the 13 ton ore carrier "Edmund Fitzgerald" & crew of 29, inspiring the ballad.
11/11
1911: During a dramatic cold wave, the Kansas City temperature fell from 76 to 11 degrees--on the 11th month, day & year.
11/12
1990: Typhoon Mike, the worst of 14 typhoons to strike the Philippines in 1990, wrecked over 600,000 homes and killed 436.
11/13
1933: The 1st dust storm of the great dust bowl era of the '30s began, spreading from MT to GA & MN, causing black rain in NY.
11/14
1987: Washington, DC saw a high of 68 degrees, 3 days after being covered in over a foot of snow.
11/15
1987: Lightning accompanied a blizzard in WI, setting 3 separate destructive fires while snow blew.
11/16
1989: 9 students died when a "weak" tornado wrecked a cafeteria wall, making it the deadliest weak tornado in US history.
11/17
1927: 90 minutes after a tornado hit Washington DC, a waterspout was seen over the Potomac River.
11/18
1979 (14th-18th): 40" of rain was measured over the northeast Hawaii islands, flooding 90% of Waipo Valley farmland.
11/19
1981: An early snowstorm in MN caused the newly inflated fabric dome of the Hubert Humphrey Metrodome to collapse and rip.
11/20
1981: At Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport, a weak tornado tore an engine off a taxiing DC-8.
11/21
1987: 60 mph wind gusts at Trumansburg, New York knocked a chimney onto a nearby truck.
11/22
1957: People were ordered off streets in areas of southern CA due to debris flying from extremely destructive Santa Ana winds.
11/23
1978: A cyclone struck Batticaloa, killing 1500. It was Sri Lanka's worst weather disaster since their records began in 1891.
11/24
1923: Yale beat Harvard during a rain-soaked football game in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
11/25
1950: Snow was so heavy during the Ohio State/Michigan game that brooms were used to find yard markers & 45 punts were kicked.
11/26
1983: The "Great Thanksgiving Weekend Blizzard" in CO was so great, visibility at Limon was down to zero for 24 hours.
11/27
1883: Residents in NYC called fire trucks, mistaking the sunset afterglow of vivid red ash from the eruption of Krakatoa in August for fire.
11/28
1960: A severe nor'easter produced 40' waves on Lake Superior, & buried Duluth, MN under a foot of snow with 73 mph wind gusts.
11/29
1985: Bismarck, ND set their record November low with 30 degrees below zero.  4 degrees below zero was their high for that day.
11/30
1957: Lee slope winds from Hurricane Nina gusted to 82 mph, a record wind gust for Honolulu, Hawaii.