WxYz (WeatherWhys) Anniversaries

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  • Jan     Farm Show weather folklore (1-11-17)
  • Jan     A Super Bowl climatology (1-29-20)
  • Jan 20   A history of presidential inauguration weather (1-20-21)
  • Jan 28   Weather and the 1986 Challenger disaster (1-27-21)

  • Feb     Three pioneering African-American meteorologists (2-24-21)
  • Feb 2     Punxsatawney Phil Visits Penn State (1-30-08)
  • Feb 9     National Weather Service 150th anniversary (2-5-20)
  • Feb 29   Story of Leap Year (2-29-12)

  • Mar     50 years since Ash Wednesday storm (3-7-12)
  • Mar     PA Flood Awareness Week (3-24-21)
  • Mar     Recent flooding, and the 1936 St. Patrick's Day Flood (3-17-10)
  • Mar 13   20-year anniversary of the March 1993 Superstorm (3-13-13)
  • Mar 14   Pi Day (3-14-16)
  • Mar 21   When does spring really begin? (3-21-18)
  • Mar 21   March 21 ... the first day of spring? (3-18-20)
  • Mar 24   Exxon Valdex anniversary (3-26-14)

  • Apr     Weather and the Masters golf tournament (4-4-12)
  • Apr     Boston Marathon Weather (4-22-09)
  • Apr     Tambora (1815) and Frankenstein (4-22-15)
  • Apr     Climbing Mount Everest (4-23-14)
  • Apr 3     Remembering the Superoutbreak of April 3-4, 1974 (4-4-18)
  • Apr 15   100th anniversary of Titanic sinking (4-11-12)
  • Apr 22   50th anniversary of Earth Day (4-22-20)
  • Apr 26   30-year anniversary of Chernobyl nuclear accident (4-20-16)
  • Apr 26   Two infamous tornado videos from April 26, 1991 (4-27-16)
  • Apr 28   10-year anniversary of 2011 historic tornado outbreak (4-28-21)

  • May     Weather and the Kentucky Derby (5-2-18)
  • May     400th anniversary of Jamestown settlement (5-9-07)
  • May     Numerical Weather Prediction - by hand? (5-27-20)
  • May 6   75th anniversary of Hindenburg disaster (5-16-12)
  • May 10   25-year anniversary of movie "Twister" release (5-19-21)
  • May 31   The most dangerous weather day in Pennsylvania (5-31-17)
  • May 31   125th anniversary of Johnstown Flood (5-28-140
  • May 31   Historic May 31, 1985 tornado outbreak retrospective, Part 1; Part 2 (May 2020)

  • Jun     40-year anniversary of Agnes (6-20-12)
  • Jun     A 100-year anniversary of (artificial) cold (6-24-15)
  • Jun 6   70th anniverary - The weather of D-Day (6-4-14)
  • Jun 15   Mount Pinatubo anniversary (7-6-11)
  • Jun 21   Solstice musings (6-16-21)
  • Jun 21   How long is summer? (6-21-17)
  • Jun 29   Hard-hitting DC derecho (7-11-12)

  • Jul       The hottest place in the U.S. (8-9-17)
  • Jul     Seventy-five years of Meteorology at Penn State (7-14-10)
  • Jul 1     New insight into Battle of Gettysburg (1863) weather (6-30-21)
  • Jul 1     Weather of the Battle of Gettysburg (7-3-19)
  • Jul 4     The weather of the original Independence Day (7-4-18)
  • Jul 18     70th anniversary of Smethport rainfall record (7-18-12)
  • Jul 20     A vivid childhood memory - Apollo 11 (7-19-17)
  • Jul 29     Waynesburg's "Rain Day" (7-26-17)

  • Aug     The Dog Days of Summer (8-7-19)
  • Aug     Delaware River Sojourn (6-22-11)
  • Aug 1     What August 1 means to me - past, present, and future (8-1-18)
  • Aug 6   Weather and the first atomic bombs (8-4-10)
  • Aug 15   100th anniversary of opening of the Panama Canal (8-27-14)
  • Aug 17   50-year anniversaries of Hurricane Camille and Woodstock (8-21-19)
  • Aug 24   Hurricane Andrew - 25 years later (8-23-17)
  • Aug 25   75th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz (8-13-14)

  • Sep     Weather for Penn State home openers (8-29-18)
  • Sep     Autumnal Equinox (9-28-16)
  • Sep 21   The Long Island Express (9-25-13)
  • Sep 21   30th anniversary of Hurricane Hugo (9-25-19)
  • Sep 26   Hurricane Hunters and Hurricane Janet (9-24-08)
  • Sep 30   What to expect in October (9-30-20)

  • Oct     Indian Summer (10-19-16)
  • Oct     Weather extremes of the World Series (10-23-19)
  • Oct 1   Pennsylvania Turnpike anniversary (9-30-15)
  • Oct 4   50th anniversary of Sputnik (10-4-07)
  • Oct 12   Fiftieth anniversary of 1962 Columbus Day storm (10-10-12)
  • Oct 21   Back to the Future day (10-21-15)
  • Oct 29   Sandy - One year later (11-6-13)
  • Oct 31   Twenty-fifth anniversary of "The Perfect Storm" (11-2-16)

  • Nov     Standard vs Daylight Saving Time (10-30-19)
  • Nov     Weather and Election Day (10-29-08)
  • Nov     Weather and the Thanksgiving Day meal (11-23-16)
  • Nov     Thanksgiving climatology, and a famous Thanksgiving weekend storm (11-25-20)
  • Nov     Weather and the Pilgrims (11-21-18)
  • Nov 2   Nor'easters and Ben Franklin (11-2-06)
  • Nov 10   Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (11-11-20)
  • Nov 11   A "Blue Norther" for the record books (11-6-19)

  • Dec     The historical roots of a "White Christmas" (12-20-17)
  • Dec     Holiday lights from space (12-18-19)
  • Dec 7   75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor (12-7-16)
  • Dec 14   South Pole conquest anniversary (12-14-11)
  • Dec 17   Anniversary of the First Flight (12-17-08)
  • Dec 24   50-year anniversary of iconic Apollo 8 photo (12-19-18)