Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 16
January 16[edit]
1362: An unprecedented storm surge in the Netherlands resulted in Grote Mandrenke, Dutch for "Great Drowning of Men": at least 25,000 people were killed.
1983: Turkish Airlines Flight 158 crashed short of the runway at Ankara Esenboğa Airport in Ankara, Turkey due to whiteout conditions in a severe snowstorm. Forty seven out of 67 on board were killed.