From NWS
1985: Flakes of snow were observed mixed with light rain at Des Moines around 7 am, making it the earliest snow on record at that location and one of the earliest observances of snow in Iowa history, just one day earlier than the remarkable statewide snowfall of September 25, 1942.
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24 September 1926 → At Riverside Ranger Station in Yellowstone National Park the temperature dropped to -9, the lowest recorded temperature in the United States in September. |
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24 September 1939 → A tropical storm called “El Cordonazo” (“the lash” or “whip”) made landfall near Los Angeles. It was the only time in the 20th Century that the center of a tropical storm made landfall still at tropical storm strength on the California coast. |
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24 September 1985 → Hurricane Gloria was the first major storm to occur after the introduction of 24-hour cable news, and received unprecedented “wall-to-wall” coverage as it approached the East Coast. |
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24 September 2005 → Hurricane Rita made landfall near the Texas/Louisiana border as a Category 3 hurricane with 120mph winds. |
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This post was written by Schnack on September 24, 2012
