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"The Storm of the Century" continued to bring extreme weather to the eastern United States on this date in 1993. Parts of the Appalachian Mountains received up to 60 inches of new snow and Syracuse, N.Y. was covered with a fresh blanket of snow 43 inches thick. The storm caused $6 billion in damage and was responsible for 208 deaths.
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The unusual weather was not isolated to the U.S. as the G-20 countries showed the greatest change toward colder year-over-year weather in three years with extreme cool and wet weather around the globe. The U.K. had the coldest July in seven years but ... the wettest start to Summer in at least 240 years which in part contributed to the very weak +1.2% like-for-like retail industry gains and the worst in 8 months. The cool trends were not limited to the Northern Hemisphere as Argentina showed the greatest July year-over-year change toward colder weather in over 100 years with the first snow in 89 years in Buenos Aires. France also showed the greatest year-over-year change toward colder July weather in decades. Asia and parts of Russia were the exception where the month trended slightly warmer and much drier than a year ago. The table below highlights the year-over-year changes in weather for the G-20.
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Nice weather continues this week with above normal temperatures, but that will come to a drastic end over the weekend. Highs will make it up near 60ยบ again on Thursday before the transition Friday to approaching low pressure. Highs will cool into the 30s & 40s over the weekend as clouds & winds increase Saturday leading to snow showers Saturday night into Sunday. The snow level should lower to around 4,000 feet where over several inches of snow may fall. Clearing Monday with fair weather out into next week.
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