On This Date In California Weather History....
1986: Rain and thunderstorms hit the LA area.
1.50 inches of rain fell in Pasadena (in a little more than one hour), 1.02 inches fell in LA (in less than one hour), nearly one inch fell in Lake Arrowhead in 40 minutes, and 0.77 inch fell in Monrovia.
Three inches of hail piled up in Pasadena.
Wind gusts were clocked to 35 mph.
Hail nearly 0.5 inch in diameter fell at the Greek Theater in Hollywood.
In Blythe, winds gusted over 50 mph and 0.79 inch or rain fell in 30 minutes.
Classes were cancelled at CSU-Northridge from power outages and several serious traffic accidents resulted in Pasadena because of hail.
Minor flooding of roadways also occurred.
San Diego County was largely missed, with only 0.22 inch reported at Palomar Mountain.
1980: It was 116° in Palm Springs and 113° in Borrego Springs, each the highest temperature on record for October.
This also occurred in Borrego Springs the next day on 10.3.
1971: The morning low temperature at Reno, NV was 22.
1952: The high temperature at Lovelock, NV was 91.
1916: Earliest measurable snowfall on record in Yosemite Valley, 2.0" of snow whitened the ground.
1858: A category one hurricane hit San Diego, the only documented hurricane to strike California in history.
This occurred before official weather observations began.
Implied winds of at least 75 mph were based on damage and journalistic accounts.
Extensive wind damage to property neared F2 (Fujita Scale) damage.
Streets were swept clean by heavy rains.
Source: NWS Hanford, Reno, & San Diego
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