The blaze started fast and moved even quicker; reaching the city of Ventura, where in the span of one night, over five hundred residences were destroyed. At its worst, the Thomas Fire involved over 8,500 firefighters in the fight to contain the blaze. This is actually still the largest mobilization of firefighters for any one wildfire in California history.

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December 8th...2016...this day in weather history; we had one storm, resulting in 3 major pileups in 3 different states, with 2 happening on the same Interstate Highway. The biggest of the pileups involved 50 vehicles and we had am empty and stranded school bus used as a make-shift triage.

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On the morning of December7th, 2006, the UK was being walked over by a deep and strong Atlantic low pressure system. Along its path, it injured 6 people, and caused moderate to severe damage to at least 100 properties.

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At the time local radio stations were announcing the storm, like I said, as a “Snowmageddon”, a cute play on the mix of snow and armageddon. It was cute and easy but really does no one any good. A total of 177 cm, 68" or 51/2 FEET of snow fell during a 102-hour period...and in that, it snowed hard during a total of 98 of those 102 hours….including this day in weather history.

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According to the Thai Meteorological Department’s Automatic Weather Station (AWS), over 500 millilitres of rain fell over a 7-day period starting on December 1st and lasting through the 7th in 2016. It would be recognized as the worst flood in over 30 years in the southern part of the country.

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This story was a featured in the hit television series The Crown. The Great Smog is the central event of season 1, episode 4 on the popular Netflix program. Fans of the sci-fi cult classic Doctor Who, will remember when "The Great Smog" was the setting of the audio play "The Creeping Death". And the The Boris Starling novel Visibility is also set in this 1952 smog event.

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After being devastated in December of 2011by the Tropical Storm ‘Washi”, Super Typhoon Bopha made landfall on Mindanao, late on December 3, as a Category 5 super typhoon with winds of 175 mph (280 km/h).

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It was to be celebrated as the 50th Grey Cup Championship. It was played in 1962, in Toronto at an outdoor stadium, that laid right along the shores of Lake Ontario. Already sounds like a bad idea and It remains the only Grey Cup game ever suspended during play...starting on Saturday the 1st and wrapping up on Sunday, the 2nd.

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For the storm to create so much chaos that Ten train cars went off their tracks in the middle of a busy day in Ohio, this was a storm that needed to be investigated further. The crashed train cars narrowly missed the main electrical feed that provides power to Amherst's 12,000 residents.

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• Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges, who was asleep on her living room couch at the time the object came crashing into and through her house. Normally we hear of meteorites falling into the ocean or driving into one of Earth's more open and remote places; so this was a crazy thing to even consider happening. 

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