March 24th, 1996, U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid transferred to the Russian space station Mir from the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis for a planned five-month stay. Lucid was the first female U.S. astronaut to live in a space station.

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They used to talk about the legendary 1862 flood of the Salinas River. But that legend was replaced when in this storm, the river exceeded its previous measured record crest by more than four feet or 1 and a quarter meters.

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Prior to this tragic day, there had been weeks of heavy rain. But what no one could have predicted was that a massive, fast-moving wall of mud and debris would suddenly come crashing down the hillside like a runaway freight train, rolling over and destroying 49 homes claiming the lives of 43 souls.  

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A well respected climatologist out of the United States called this March 2012 heatwave (quote) “the most extraordinary temperature anomaly in North American history”; this heat dome covered 2-thirds of all of North America! It was the Spring Equinox yet this last day of winter resembled something closer to a midsummer day.

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The Denver International Airport was closed and that stranded about 4,000 travellers. The weight of the snow caused a 40-foot or 12 meter gash in a portion of the roof, forcing the evacuation of that section of the main terminal building.

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In BC in 2019, things were already wrecked; January was well above seasonal, February then went brutally cold and as for March, it was threatening to rewrite the record books for drought. One of the hottest spots in the province was in Pitt Meadows as they hit a staggering 19.5C.; and that broke a record that had stood for 7 decades!! In Chilliwack, an almost 125-year-old record was erased!

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This outbreak killed 695 people, injured some 13,000 people, and caused $17 million in property damage. More than 500 of the total 695 people who perished were killed in southern Illinois,  including 234 in Murphysboro and 127 in West Frankfort.

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Two things you normally do not associate with the Aloha State are tornadoes and St. Patrick’s day.  But Two tornado warnings were issued in the Hawaiian Islands on this day. So this occurrence of 2 tornado warnings on the Big Island was so unusual primarily because there had only ever been 2 tornado warnings ever for the state as long as record keeping began.  

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Almost to the day, back in 1948 was the previous mark for the earliest tornado in the province.  It was on a march 19th in Windsor.  So it took 68 years for this record mark to come off the board.  This tornado registered EF1 and hit at about 10 minutes to 4pm in Grey Country Ontario.

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This historic flooding was one of the costliest U.S. inland flooding events on record and it included and Air Force Base in Nebraska. In the end, this 2 week deluge of disaster caused $2.9 billion in total damages, split between 2 States the most affected: $1.6B in the Hawkeye state of Iowa and  $1.3B in Cornhusker Nation, Nebraska.

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