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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
700 AM CDT Mon Aug 26 2024

...ON THIS DATE IN WEATHER HISTORY...

In 1965, late night severe thunderstorms associated with
a strong cold front produced 100 mph straight line winds
in the Chicago area and Northwest Indiana.  Three nights
later, on August 29th, the temperature at Midway Airport
in Chicago plunged to 43 degrees.  This established the
coldest temperature ever recorded at Midway Airport in
the month of August.

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In 1883, the Indonesian volcano, Krakatoa, began a
series of eruptions that would lead to the most powerful
catastrophic eruption in recorded history.  The initial
eruptions on the 26th were powerful but were not
considered out of the ordinary to the local residence of
nearby islands.  Unfortunately, during the night, these
eruptions became more powerful and the following day,
Krakatoa exploded with 13,000 times the power of the
Hiroshima bomb in 1945.  This incredibly powerful
explosion completely obliterated approximately 26 square
miles of the island sending ash 260,000 feet in to the
air.  The shock waves from the explosion were heard,
literally, around the world.  Aneroid barometers in
Boston Massachusetts and London England registered the
explosions shock wave which circled the earth seven
times.An estimated 36,000 people perished in the
eruption, some were as a far away as Africa.  Over the
next five years following the eruptions, world
temperatures averaged 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit colder due
to the volcanic ash blocking sunlight.

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