Portal:Weather/On this day list/November 16
November 16[edit]
1937: A plane attempting to land in bad weather near Ostend, Belgium, hit the chimney of a factory and crashed, killing several members of the Belgian royal family, including a baby born during the flight.
2007: Cyclone Guba reached peak intensity over the Coral Sea. Flooding from the storm's rainbands eventually killed more than 140 people in Papua New Guinea.
2020: Hurricane Iota, the 31st and final tropical cyclone of the record-breaking 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, made landfall in Nicaragua with maximum sustained winds of 145 miles per hour (230 km/h).