Portal:Weather/On this day list/January

January 1

1947: A severe hailstorm injured around 1000 people in Sydney, Australia.

January 2

1976: A severe gale began affecting western Europe, bringing wind gusts of more than 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) to the British Isles.

January 3

1913: A severe nor'easter brought the lowest barometric pressure reading for a non-tropical system ever measured in the continental United States, with a pressure of 955.0 mb (28.20 inHg) recorded in Canton, New York.

January 4

2008: Cyclone Helen made landfall in the Northern Territory of Australia with 10-minute maximum sustained winds of 95 kilometres per hour (59 mph). One person was killed due to flooding.

January 5

1950: A Lisunov Li-2 carrying most of VVS Moscow (the ice hockey team of the Soviet Air Forces) crashed while attempting to land at Koltsovo Airport, Yekaterinburg, USSR (now Russia) during a major snowstorm, killing all on board.

January 6

1998: Cyclone Ron, the strongest tropical cyclone on record to impact Tonga, passed just 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Niuafoʻou, with maximum sustained winds of 165 mph (265 km/h).

January 7

1839: Known as the Night of the Big Wind, a European windstorm swept across Ireland, killing between 250 and 300 people.

January 8

2005: European windstorm Gudrun struck Sweden and Denmark with wind gusts of up to 165 kilometers per hour (103 mph), killing 12 people.

January 9

1975: The Great Storm of 1975 began causing blizzard conditions in the Central Plains while spawning tornadoes in the Southern United States. Over the next 3 days, more than 2 feet (61 cm) of snow would fall on some locations, while 45 tornadoes touched down. Twelve people were killed by the storm.

January 10

2005: After 15 days of heavy rain, a landslide destroyed 13 houses in the community of La Conchita, California, killing 10 people.

January 11

2014: Cyclone Ian struck the Haʻapai islands of Tonga, destroying hundreds of homes and killing one person.

January 12

1954: A series of avalanches killed 125 people in the state of Vorarlberg, Austria, including three separate avalanches which killed 57 people in the village of Blons.

January 13

1979: A major snowstorm affected the Chicago area, dropping record snowfall of more than 16 inches (410 mm) in one day.

January 14

2016: Hurricane Alex, an unusual January hurricane, reached peak intensity near the Azores.

January 15

1919: The Great Molasses Flood, a flood of molasses from a ruptured storage tank, caused in part by unusually warm temperatures, killed 21 people in Boston, Massachusetts.

January 16

1983: Turkish Airlines Flight 158 crashed short of the runway at Ankara Esenboğa Airport in Ankara, Turkey due to whiteout conditions in a severe snowstorm. Forty seven out of 67 on board were killed.

January 17

2008: Cyclone Funa passed near the island of Maewo, Vanuatu, causing significant damage across the island nation.

January 18

2012: An avalanche destroyed 72 homes in the village of Üzengili, Bayburt Province, Turkey, killing 59 people.

January 19

2008: The Pacific Star, a cruise ship based out of New Zealand, ran into large waves caused by Cyclone Funa, suffering significant damage and several injuries to passengers.

January 20

2005: A two day storm began that would drop 1–3 feet (30–91 cm) of snow over parts of New England.

January 21

2010: Cyclone Magda made landfall in the sparsely populated Kimberley Region of Western Australia, causing only minor damage and no injuries.

January 22

1999: One person was killed in Tennessee on the second day of a two-day tornado outbreak.

January 23

2011: Cyclone Wilma passed through the islands of American Samoa, killing 3 people.

January 24

2009: European windstorm Klaus made landfall near Bordeaux, France, with wind gusts of up to 200 kilometres per hour (120 mph).

January 25

1990: A European windstorm known as the Burns' Day Storm killed almost 100 people, mainly in the United Kingdom.

January 26

1967: The ESSA-4 weather satellite was launched.

January 27

2008: Cyclone Gene made landfall on Fiji, killing 8 people.

January 28

1977: A severe blizzard which would last five days hit western New York, causing snow drifts up to 40 feet (12 m) high and killing 23 people.

January 29

1989: Cyclone Firinga dropped torrential rain on the French overseas department of Réunion, including 1,309 millimetres (51.5 in) at Pas de Bellecombe in just 24 hours.

January 30

1607: Severe flooding struck the lowland regions around the Bristol Channel in Wales and England, sweeping away entire villages and killing around 2,000 people.

January 31

1966: Oswego, New York received 50 inches (127 cm) of snow, which was the last of five consecutive days of heavy snow.