[californiadisasters] On This Date In CA Weather History (August 18)

On This Date In California Weather History....

1997: Tropical storm Ignacio produced 18 foot waves in Orange County from 8.17 to 8.19.

1983: Bakersfield received an inch of rain, with an additional 0.08 inches falling in the early morning hours of August 19th.
This was the greatest rainfall in 24 hours in Bakersfield in the month of August.
This also brought the monthly rainfall for August 1983 to 1.18 inches, making it the wettest August on record here.

1950: 104 degrees for a high in the town of Tehachapi.

1946: The high temperature at Reno, NV was 99.

1945: What is believed to be a decaying tropical storm hit the region on this day and on 8.19.
Especially hard hit was the eastern Coachella Valley, resulting in extensive damage at Oasis.
Water was 18 feet deep in Mecca.

1909: The high temperature at Lovelock, NV was 104.

1906: A tropical storm came up into the Gulf of California and the southwestern United States, giving the mountains and deserts heavy rainfall on this day and on 8.19.
Needles received 5.66 inches of rain, twice the normal seasonal rainfall.
This occurred during the El Niño of 1905-06.

Source: NWS Hanford, Reno, & San Diego

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