From NWS
1899: Unseasonably warm weather brought the temperature into the lower 90s across about the southwestern half of Iowa. At Des Moines a high of 91 F makes this the latest date of the year on which 90 degrees has ever been reached at that location. Other reported high temperatures included 91 F at Centerville, Denison, Greenfield, and Onawa, 92 F at Carroll and Glenwood, and 93 F at Clarinda, Council Bluffs, and Red Oak.

12 October 1962 → Powerful low pressure caused sustained winds of greater than 150mph on the Oregon coast with gusts of 179mph. This event is referred to as theColumbus Day Windstorm which killed 46 people. The storm was an equivalent of a Category 3 hurricane. 12 October 1979 → The world’s lowest barometric pressure on record, 25.63″, occurred in Super Typhoon Tip with 190mph winds. Gale force winds extended 1,350 miles out from the eye making it the largest tropical cyclone on record.

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