NORTHERN INDIANA
1870 -- President Grant signed a measure creating what
would become the National Weather Service.
1899 -- Fort Wayne had a low of -19°
and a high of -7°. Angola fell to -20°. This air mass was
entrenched over much of the United States was of the Rockies for several
days. On the 12th Fort Worth, Texas dropped to 8° and Charleston, South
Carolina received four inches of snow. Ice floes blocked the Mississippi
River at New Orleans, which has happened only one other time (February 13,
1784).
1909 -- Severe ice storm did
heavy damage to trees and telegraph lines.
1933 -- Albion fell to -18°,
Plymouth to -20°.
1982 -- Fort Wayne's deepest
snow cover on record: 20 inches.
LOWER MICHIGAN
1875 -- The temperature tumbles to 32 degrees below zero at Lansing and 20 below at Detroit during one of the coldest months on record in Lower Michigan. The mean temperature for the entire month at Lansing is 4.7 degrees, the coldest month ever recorded there.
1934 -- The coldest temperature ever recorded in Michigan occurred at Vanderbilt, with a low of 51 degrees below zero.
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