This deadly and destructive fire swept through the central parts of the city from Sunday, 2 September to Thursday, 6 September in the year 1666! Among the collateral damage was a total gutting of the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall, once the centre to the Roman Empire.

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Irma was the most intense hurricane to strike the continental United States since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the first major hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Wilma in the same year, and the first Category 4 hurricane to strike the state since Charley in 2004.

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When Felix made landfall, it struck just south of the border between Nicaragua and Honduras with sustained winds at 260 kilometers per hour (160 miles per hour). Due to the extent of the damage and the amount of people killed by this storm in Nicaragua, the name FELIX was officially retired by the World Meteorological Organization.

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This earthquake near Charleston, South Carolina, on August 31, 1886, this day in weather history, was particularly harsh for this state as The Civil War had ruined the economy.

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Guy Bluford Jr. was born November 22, 1942 in Philadelphia. He literally flew into the history books as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle 'Challenger' in 1983, becoming the first African American to travel into space.

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The effects of Hurricane Katrina, in August 2005, were catastrophic and widespread. It was one of the deadliest natural disasters in U.S. history, leaving at least 1,836 people dead, and a further 135 missing.

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It was the first ever rated greater than F3 in August in the state of Illinois and the only F5 tornado to strike the Chicago area. The violent tornado killed 29 people and injured 353. It is the only the second F5 tornado ever recorded in August in the United States….and it happened this day in weather history.

 

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On the morning of August 27th, 1883, a series of massive eruptions tore the volcano’s walls apart. Krakatoa’s final eruption was four times more powerful than the largest bomb that humans have detonated and it changed the world forever….this day in weather history.

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The worst of the 3 hottest temperature games on record was when the Toronto Blue Jays came to Arlington Texas for a night game and at the 7:39pm opening pitch, the temperature was a disgusting 109℉ or 43-celcius!! I repeat….during A NIGHT GAME!!!.

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Today, we jump headlong into a hurricane so destructive that it is equaled only by that of Hurricane Katrina in ‘05. This in the story of Hurricane Harvey, the storm that levelled the lone star state when it hammered Houston….on this day in weather history.

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