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December 3

1838: Cleveland Abbe, pioneering weather forecaster and founder of the academic journal Monthly Weather Review, was born in New York City.

1978: An outbreak of tornadoes occurred before dawn in Arkansas and Louisiana, killing 5 people and causing major damage in Bossier City, Louisiana.

1999: European windstorm Anatol struck the coast of Sweden, Denmark, and Germany with wind gusts of up to 175 kilometers per hour (109 mph), causing over $2 billion in damage and killing 20 people.

2004: Cyclone Agni, a very rare tropical cyclone which approached and may have even crossed the equator, dissipated just off the Somali coast.