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September 5[edit]
1966: Hurricane Faith struck the Faroe Islands as the northernmost tropical cyclone in history, with winds of over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h).
1978: Hurricane Norman made landfall in southern California as a weak tropical depression, one of only a few tropical cyclones on record to do so. The storm's remnants would produce a rare late-summer snowfall in the Sierra Nevada mountains that killed 4 hikers.
1996: Hurricane Fran made landfall in North Carolina, causing almost $5 billion (2006 USD) in damage.
2003: Hurricane Fabian made landfall on Bermuda as a Category 3 hurricane, the strongest to strike the island in 40 years.
2007: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its Fourth Assessment Report, giving grave predictions about future global warming.