The city of Belo Horizonte, host of 2014 World Cup soccer matches, saw 171 mm (6.7 in) of rainfall within a 24-hour period between the 23–24 January; this blew away a record that had stood for 110 years.

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One of the most bizarre side stories of this winter storm is that, one month prior, because of the effects of El Nino, the eastern US experienced one of the warmest end of December on record. From January 22nd to 24th, 2016, a crippling and historic blizzard that produced up to 3 ft (91 cm) of snow in parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast United States.  It was immediately recognized as a "potentially historic blizzard".

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The game between the Calgary Flames and the New Jersey Devils on Jan. 22, 1987 wasn't expected to be a historic affair. But when close to two feet of snow dropped in on the tri-state area, it actually paved the way for what turned into one of the most unusual evenings in the history of the National Hockey League.

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They normally only see 33 tornadoes per year...and even at that, they normally occur in the spring. It broke a record for a tornado outbreak in January. It lasted 46 hours. The whole thing took place from January 21st through the 23rd and affected all of the mid-western and southern USA.

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The 2019–20 Australian bushfire season came to be known as Black Summer.  The Black was a tip to the mood, and the colour of the land left behind by a blaze that was, at times, burning in every province on the Island Continent nation.  

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Ice jams in New Brunswick are common but this year they were threatening to destroy the world's longest covered bridge. In this race against mother nature, authorities said a major jam had pushed ice to within two metres of the bottom of a 105-year-old bridge in Hartland, a town about 75 kilometres northwest of Fredericton.

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It was speculated at the time that the St. John's Airport had in fact experienced its snowiest January on record with 166 cm recorded to that point.

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A powerful wind and snow storm smashed into B.C.'s South Coast on January 15th that knocked out power in many regions but then that overnight the intensity faded but it was too late; on the 16th, we now had thousands of people in the Lower Mainland and on Vancouver Island in the dark. 

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We were in WW1 still, and the planet was gripped by a deadly pandemic AND yet still in a North End neighbourhood of Boston, Massachusetts, a large storage tank filled with molasses burst and the effect was nothing short of a sticky soiled tsunami!

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