Portal:Weather/On this day list/January 6
January 6[edit]
1996: The Blizzard of '96 began pounding the Eastern United States, and would eventually dump 2–4 feet (0.61–1.2 m) of snow on an area from Tennessee to Massachusetts.
1998: Cyclone Ron, the strongest tropical cyclone on record to impact Tonga, passed just 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Niuafoʻou, with maximum sustained winds of 165 mph (265 km/h).
2004: Cyclone Heta passed through the Samoan Islands, causing moderate damage and killing one person.
2005: Tropical Storm Zeta finally dissipated over the open Atlantic Ocean, several days after it was forecast to diminish. It was the final storm of the hyperactive 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.