Portal:Weather/On this day list/March

March 1

2018: The GOES-17 geostationary weather satellite was launched.

March 2

2003: Cyclone Japhet made landfall near Vilankulo, Mozambique, bringing torrential rain that helped relieve a drought but also brought floods that killed 25 people in Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

March 3

1971: A large blizzard hit much of eastern Canada, killing over 30 people.

March 4

1899: Cyclone Mahina, the deadliest tropical cyclone in Australian history, killed more than 400 in Far North Queensland.

March 5

2002: Typhoon Mitag reached peak intensity over the northwestern Pacific Ocean with 1-minute maximum sustained winds of 260 km/h (160 mph). Mitag was the first super typhoon on record in the month of March.

March 6

2008: A storm system that would impact most of the eastern half of North America and last for four days started to take shape in the southern United States. There were 15 reports of tornadoes, parts of Ohio would receive over 28 inches (71 cm) of snow, and 17 people were killed.

March 7

1717: The Great Snow of 1717 finally came to an end, after weeks of heavy snow buried areas of the Northeastern United States with 5 feet (1.5 m) of snow or more.

March 8

1988: The remnants of Cyclone Bola passed about 110 kilometers (70 mi) north of New Zealand, causing severe flooding on the North Island.

March 9

2014: Cyclone Lusi formed near Vanuatu, causing major flooding over several days that killed 10 people.

March 10

2005: Cyclone Ingrid made landfall on the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. This was its second of several landfalls across Northern Australia over the course of 10 days.

March 11

2010: Severe flooding led to the failure of the Kyzyl-Agash Dam in Qyzylaghash, Almaty, Kazakhstan, killing at least 43 people.

March 12

1993: What became known as the Storm of the Century began causing major damage across a large portion of the Southeastern United States and Cuba with heavy snows, strong winds, a storm surge, and tornadoes. The storm would eventually go on to have a major impact on the Northeastern United States and Atlantic Canada, and kill 300 people.

March 13

2019: An extratropical storm system began to rapidly intensify over Colorado, bringing blizzard conditions and wind gusts as high as 97 miles per hour (156 km/h) to the state. This storm would move eastward across the Central United States, eventually causing record flooding in several states due to heavy rains and melting snow.

March 14

1933: A tornado outbreak struck parts of Tennessee, killing dozens of people, including 15 in Nashville.

March 15

1920: A severe blizzard began in North Dakota which would eventually kill 34 people.

March 16

1942: An extensive tornado outbreak struck the Midwestern United States, killing 152 people.

March 17

2012: Cyclone Lua made landfall near Pardoo Station, Western Australia. Though the storm packed 1-minute maximum sustained winds of 175 kilometres per hour (109 mph), only minor damage was reported due to the sparse population of the area.

March 18

1925: The Tri-State Tornado, the longest-tracked tornado in history, killed almost 700 people in the United States Midwest.

March 19

2012: A weather radar system named OU-PRIME, used for teaching and research at the University of Oklahoma, was struck by lightning and disabled.

March 20

2006: Cyclone Larry made landfall near Innisfail, Queensland, resulting in almost $1 billion (USD) in damage.

March 21

1952: A tornado outbreak killed more than 200 people in the Southern United States.

March 22

2014: Days of heavy rain led to a major mudslide which destroyed 49 homes east of Oso, Washington, killing 43 people.

March 23: World Meteorological Day

2014: Cyclone Gillian reached peak intensity over the southeastern Indian Ocean, with wind gusts of up to 315 kilometres per hour (195 mph).

March 24

1911: The passenger ship SS Yongala sank in a cyclone south of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. All 122 passengers and crew were lost.

March 25

1913: The worst flood in Ohio history began as levees protecting downtown Dayton failed.

March 26

1969: Meteor-1 1 the Soviet Union's first fully operational weather satellite, was launched.

March 27

2009: The dam holding back Situ Gintung, a lake near Jakarta, Indonesia, failed due to heavy rains in the early morning. At least 100 people died in the ensuing flood.

March 28

1920: A tornado outbreak killed more than 300 people in a large portion of the central and southeastern United States.

March 29

1998: A supercell dropped 13 tornadoes across southern Minnesota, killing two people in the state's earliest tornado outbreak on record.

March 30

2006: Cyclone Glenda, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever in the Australian region, made landfall near Onslow, Western Australia.

March 31

2014: Cyclone Hellen made landfall near Mitsinjo, Madagascar, killing 8 people.