Portal:Weather/On this day list/March
March 1
[edit]2018: The GOES-17 geostationary weather satellite was launched.
March 2
[edit]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
[edit]1971: A large blizzard hit much of eastern Canada, killing over 30 people.
March 4
[edit]1910: The deadliest avalanche in Canadian history killed 62 people near Rogers Pass, British Columbia.
March 5
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]1997: Cyclone Gavin struck Fiji, killing 18 people and causing millions of dollars in damage. It was the strongest tropical cyclone ever to affect the island.
March 8
[edit]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
[edit]2014: Cyclone Lusi formed near Vanuatu, causing major flooding over several days that killed 10 people.
March 10
[edit]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
[edit]2010: Severe flooding led to the failure of the Kyzyl-Agash Dam in Qyzylaghash, Almaty, Kazakhstan, killing at least 43 people.
March 12
[edit]1888: The Great Blizzard of 1888 began dropping snow on the Northeastern United States. Eventually snow would drift as high as 40 to 50 feet (12 to 15 m), and 400 people would perish.
March 13
[edit]1979: Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600 flew into a thunderstorm while attempting to land at Doha International Airport, Qatar, encountering a microburst that forced the plane into the ground, killing 45 of the 64 people onboard.
March 14
[edit]2006: A dam holding back the Ka Loko Reservoir on the island of Kauai burst due to extremely heavy rains, killing seven people.
March 15
[edit]1920: A severe blizzard began in North Dakota which would eventually kill 34 people.
March 16
[edit]1942: An extensive tornado outbreak struck the Midwestern United States, killing 152 people.
March 17
[edit]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
[edit]1925: The Tri-State Tornado, the longest-tracked tornado in history, killed almost 700 people in the United States Midwest.
March 19
[edit]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
[edit]2006: Cyclone Larry made landfall near Innisfail, Queensland, resulting in almost $1 billion (USD) in damage.
March 21
[edit]1952: A tornado outbreak killed more than 200 people in the Southern United States.
March 22
[edit]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
[edit]1923: Joanne Simpson, renowned research meteorologist and the first woman to receive a PhD in meteorology, was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
March 24
[edit]1911: The passenger ship SS Yongala sank in a cyclone south of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. All 122 passengers and crew were lost.
March 25
[edit]1982: Typhoon Nelson made landfall on the central Philippines, killing 288 people.
March 26
[edit]1969: Meteor-1 1 the Soviet Union's first fully operational weather satellite, was launched.
March 27
[edit]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
[edit]1983: NOAA-8, the first weather satellite of the Advanced TIROS-N series, was launched into a polar orbit.
March 29
[edit]1998: A supercell dropped 13 tornadoes across southern Minnesota, killing two people in the state's earliest tornado outbreak on record.
March 30
[edit]2006: Cyclone Glenda, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever in the Australian region, made landfall near Onslow, Western Australia.
March 31
[edit]2014: Cyclone Hellen made landfall near Mitsinjo, Madagascar, killing 8 people.