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October 15

1870: The Army Signal Service established the first federal weather office in the Chicago area, which would eventually become the National Weather Service forecast office for Chicago.

1969: Hurricane Inga dissipated well southeast of Bermuda, 25 days after it formed. This made it the third-longest-lived tropical cyclone on record for the North Atlantic.

1972: The NOAA-2 weather satellite was launched. NOAA-2 operated for more than 2 years in a polar orbit, returning radiometric data about cloud cover and atmospheric temperature around the globe.

1987: The Great Storm of 1987 hit France and England.