Pat Shingleton for April 30, 2008
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We say goodbye to April and rewind to some interesting weather events on this date. “Oceania” are land areas that are not a part of a continent. On this date in 1912, a temperature of 108 was recorded at Tuguegarao, Philippines, for Oceania’s all-time recorded high. In 1898, the latest-in-the-season measurable snowfall for Washington, D.C., was noted with a record low of 33. Also in D.C., on April 30, 1938, meteorologists attending the American Geophysical Union reported baseball-size hail that whitened the ground, setting a record hail event. Finally, in 1994, thunderstorm winds blew a power line onto a fence in Franklin County, Pa., electrocuting 15 cows and illuminating the fence like a toaster.
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