Portal:Weather/On this day list/July
July 1
[edit]1992: The national meteorological service of New Zealand, known as the MetService, was established as a state-owned enterprise.
July 2
[edit]1965: TIROS-10, the final weather satellite of the original TIROS program, was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
July 3
[edit]1996: Tropical Storm Cristina made landfall near Puerto Ángel, the third tropical cyclone to strike southern Mexico in 10 days.
July 4
[edit]1999: A severe derecho produced 90 miles per hour (145 km/h) winds that downed 25 million trees in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of northeastern Minnesota.
July 5
[edit]1805: Robert FitzRoy, captain of the HMS Beagle and a pioneering British meteorologist, was born in Suffolk, England.
July 6
[edit]2013: Hurricane Erick reached peak intensity as it passed 100 miles (160 km) offshore of Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, Mexico. Though the storm did not make landfall, flooding rains lead to the deaths of at least two people.
July 7
[edit]1991: A major derecho raced from South Dakota to New York, killing one person and causing over $100 million in damage.
July 8
[edit]1980: Aeroflot Flight 4225 crashed shortly after takeoff from Almaty International Airport in Soviet Kazakhstan due to turbulence caused by thermals during a heat wave, killing all 166 people on board.
July 9
[edit]1986: Typhoon Peggy made landfall in northern Luzon, Philippines, killing more than 300 people.
July 10
[edit]2009: A total of eleven bolts of lightning struck the launch pad of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, one of many delays which plagued shuttle mission STS-127.
July 11
[edit]1892: The Tête Rousse Glacier on the Mont Blanc massif unleashed an outburst flood of meltwater, killing at least 200 people in the valley near Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, France.
July 12
[edit]1996: Hurricane Bertha, an unusual early-season Atlantic hurricane, made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina.
July 13
[edit]1951: The Great Flood of 1951 reached its peak at 2 million acres (8096 km²) flooded in Kansas and Missouri.
July 14
[edit]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.
July 15
[edit]2003: Hurricane Claudette came ashore near Port O'Connor, Texas, destroying more than 200 homes along the Gulf Coast.
July 16
[edit]1997: Hurricane Danny formed as Tropical Depression Four, eventually dropping 36.71 inches (932 mm) of rain on Dauphin Island, Alabama. This was the most rain ever recorded from a tropical cyclone in the state.
July 17
[edit]2006: An active period of derechos began across the Midwestern United States and eastern Canada, killing several people over 5 days.
July 18
[edit]1986: Hurricane Estelle reached peak intensity over the open Pacific Ocean. Despite never directly impacting land, the storm would bring unusually rough surf to Hawaii that destroyed several homes and killed two people.
July 19
[edit]1996: Unprecedented rainfall started the Saguenay flood, killing at least seven people and causing as much as $1.5 billion (CAD) in damage in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec.
July 20
[edit]2008: Hurricane Bertha, the longest-lived July Atlantic hurricane on record, dissipated over Atlantic Canada.
July 21
[edit]1987: A rare high-altitude violent tornado downed around 1,000,000 trees in Yellowstone National Park and surrounding wilderness.
July 22
[edit]2006: Hurricane Daniel reached peak intensity over the open Pacific Ocean, with maximum sustained winds of 130 knots (150 mph; 240 km/h).
July 23
[edit]2014: TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashed near Penghu Airport on Magong Island, Taiwan, killing 44 of 54 on board. Bad weather due to the passage of Typhoon Matmo was partially blamed for the crash.
July 24
[edit]1979: Tropical Storm Claudette made landfall near the Texas/Louisiana border, causing record rainfalls and $400 million dollars (1979 USD) in damage.
July 25
[edit]2001: A red rain was observed in the Indian state of Kerala. The phenomenon would continue sporadically for several weeks throughout the state. Its cause was never definitively determined.
July 26
[edit]2013: INSAT-3D, a weather and communications satellite built by the Indian Space Research Organisation, was launched into geostationary orbit.
July 27
[edit]2010: Heavy rains that would last for four days began across much of Pakistan, causing historic flooding that would kill more than 1,700 people.
July 28
[edit]1987: A major landslide due to weeks of heavy rain in the Valtelline valley in northern Italy killed 22 people.
July 29
[edit]1976: NOAA-5, the final weather satellite of the "Improved TIROS" series of satellites, was launched.
July 30
[edit]1960: Tropical Storm Brenda tracked along the coast of the Eastern United States, bringing flooding rains to several states.
July 31
[edit]2022: A volcano warning is accidentally issued for a wildfire in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska.