[californiadisasters] On This Date In California Weather History (August 21)

2003: Heavy thunderstorms drenched parts of the Kern County mountains in the morning hours.
Piute measured 1.78" of rain.

1982: The high temperature at Reno was 100°.

1971: A heavy thunderstorm hit Needles with nearly 2" of rainfall.
Flash flooding and debris flows wiped out several roads and swept several vehicles off roads.

1959: It was 45° in Santa Ana, the lowest temperature on record for August.
This also occurred on 8.17.1918.

1955: The high temperature at Lovelock was 101°.

1934: A tsunami hit San Diego with 20' maximum amplitude from a local sea quake.

1921: The remnants of a tropical cyclone tracked northward into western Arizona from central Baja California generating rainfall of up to 2" in the deserts and southern mountains of southern California on 8.20 and on this day.
This occurred during the La Niña of 1920-21.

Source: NWS Hanford, Reno, & San Diego

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