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Weather on This Date - July 9

7/9/2018

July 9, 1860
A hot blast of air in the middle of a sweltering summer pushed the mercury up to 115 degrees at Fort Scott and Lawrence, KS. (David Ludlum)

July 9, 1882
Ice formed on the streets of Cheyenne, WY, during a rare summer freeze. (David Ludlum)

July 9, 1936
The temperature hit an all-time record high of 106 degrees at the Central Park Observatory in New York City, a record which lasted until LaGuardia Airport hit 107 degrees on July 3rd in 1966. (The Weather Channel)

July 9, 1968
Columbus, MS received 15.68 inches of rain in 24 hours to establish a record for the state. (The Weather Channel)

July 9, 1987
Thunderstorms produced severe weather in Michigan. A tornado near Munising, MI, destroyed part of a commercial dog kennel, and one of the missing dogs was later found unharmed in a tree top half a mile away. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

July 9, 1988
Twenty-three cities in the eastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. Alpena, MI, and Buffalo, NY, suffered through their sixth straight day of record heat. The percentage of total area in the country in the grips of severe to extreme drought reached 43 percent, the fourth highest total of record. The record of 61 percent occurred during the summer of 1934. (The National Weather Summary)

July 9, 1989
Morning thunderstorms produced very heavy rain in southern Lower Michigan and northern Indiana. Up to 5.6 inches of rain was reported in Berrien County, MI. Sioux Falls SD reported a record high of 108 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

July 9, 2001
Isolated severe thunderstorms produced up to golf ball sized hail and damaging winds in White (Bartow County). At least 20 trees were blown down across Bartow County and one of the trees fell on a house causing extensive damage. (NWS Atlanta)

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