WxYz (WeatherWhys) Anniversaries
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)