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January 30

1607: Severe flooding struck the lowland regions around the Bristol Channel in Wales and England, sweeping away entire villages and killing around 2,000 people.

1916: The Sweetwater Dam in San Diego County, California was overtopped due to severe flooding.

1930: The first radiosonde was launched in Pavlovsk, USSR by Pavel Molchanov, sending weather data from high in the atmosphere to the Leningrad Weather Bureau and Moscow Central Forecast Institute.

2009: A severe heat wave reached its peak in southeastern Australia, with nearly half of Tasmania recording all-time record temperatures as high as 42 °C (108 °F).