[californiadisasters] On This Date In CA Weather History (October 13)

On This Date In California Weather History...

2009: Moisture from the remnants of super typhoon Melor that brought destructive winds and heavy rain to the Philippines and Japan during the previous week moved over the central California interior bringing high elevation snowfall and large amounts of rainfall.
Many valley and Sierra Nevada locations set new record high precipitation amounts.
The southern end of the valley had strong down slope winds, especially near the coastal ranges.
Dinkey Creek RAWS in the Sierra Nevada southwest of Shaver Lake recorded over 9 inches of rain between 8 AM and midnight.

2006: A thunderstorm dropped 0.51 inch of rain in five minutes and 1.81 inch in 30 minutes in San Bernardino.
18 homes and businesses and two vehicles were damaged by flooding.
Big sinkholes were left in a road.
One man required rescue from his vehicle.
Mud and debris were left on roads.

1978: Bakersfield reached a high of 102 degrees and would achieve this same high again on the 14th this same year.
This is the latest ever in the year Bakersfield has had back-to-back days with triple digit high temperatures.

1942: Reno, NV had a morning low temperature of 22.

1942: A midnight thunderstorm hit Upland with 2.25 inches of rain in just over one hour.
Mud and debris washed down Euclid Avenue and flooded at least one home.
Four calves at an Ontario dairy were washed away.

1924: An early season cold snap gripped Southern California from 10.11 to this day.
It was 32° in Escondido, the lowest temperature on record for October.
This also occurred the previous day on 10.12.

1899: 7.0 inches of snow fell at Susanville.

1889: A monsoon-type thunderstorm brought 7.58 inches of rain to Encinitas in eight hours from 10 pm 10.12 to 6 am on this day.
0.44 inch fell in San Diego.

Source: NWS Hanford, Reno, & San Diego

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