Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 14

July 14

1960: Hurricane Abby passed just north of the Honduras coast, causing only minor damage.

1977: The first of the Himawari series of weather satellites, operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency, was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

1987: Strong thunderstorms dropped more than 100 millimetres (3.9 in) of rain in less than three hours over the city of Montreal, causing flash flooding that killed two people.

2000: The Pine Lake tornado, the deadliest in Canada since 1987, killed 12 people in central Alberta.