On This Date In California Weather History....
1999: Thundersnow occurred in the high Sierra around 11,500 feet in elevation, about 18 miles northeast of Huntington Lake.
3 to 4 inches of snow fell in association with this storm.
1989: One of the most severe convective outbreaks of record in Southern California began on 8.7 and continued until 8.11, when it climaxed.
1978: The low temperature was 78° in Palomar Mountain, the highest minimum temperature on record.
This also occurred on 7.11.2003 and on 6.29.1994.
1971: The high temperature at Lovelock, NV was 104.
1970: Reno, NV had a high temperature of 103.
1963: A heavy thunderstorm struck Lenwood and Barstow.
In Lenwood a boy was swept 200 feet by a flash flood before clinging to a telephone pole.
The same flash flood carried a loaded trailer 150 feet off the highway.
1941: Thunderstorms hit the eastern Coachella Valley damaging buildings.
Water was 30 inches deep in Mecca after more than three inches of rain fell.
1.46 inches fell in Indio.
1935: It was 105° in Santa Ana, the highest temperature on record for August.
1933: A heat wave began on this day and ended on 8.13 in the valleys; temperatures topped 110° for several consecutive days.
Source: NWS Hanford, Reno, & San Diego
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