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By Brandon Butcher

Story Published: Mar 3, 2008 at 12:15 PM EDT

Story Updated: Oct 26, 2009 at 10:55 AM EDT

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Dates:

03/22/2008

03/22/2009

03/22/2010

Event Description

March 22nd

Normals / Records:
Average High: 45°F
Average Low: 28°F

Record High: 75°F (1948)
Record Low: 12°F (1934)

Average Precipitation: 0.13"
Record: 1.46" (1967)
Month-to-Date: 2.71"
Year-to-Date: 9.51"

Average Snowfall: 0.20"
Record: 8.90" (1967)
Month-to-Date: 6.3"
Seasonal Snowfall to-Date: 43.2"

Moon Phase:

RISE		SET
Sunrise:	6:50 AM	Sunset:	7:04 PM
Civil:	6:22 AM	Civil:	7:32 PM
Nautical:	5:49 AM	Nautical:	8:05 PM
Astro:	5:16 AM	Astro:	8:38 PM
Moon:	8:28 AM	Moon:	-----

Length of Day: 12 hours, 13 min

On This Date

Major flooding in the east. Floods were at their crest on rivers from Maine to Ohio. New Hampshire is hard hit with factories and industries destroyed and hundreds left homeless. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania reached 6.1 feet, Harrisburg hit 3.5 feet, and Hartford hit 8.6 feet, a depth greater than ever before. 107 lives were lost and damage was placed at $270 million, 1936
A blockbuster coastal storm lashed New York and New England. Norfolk, Connecticut was buried under 33 inches of snow. 24 inches was reported at Pittsfield, Massachusetts and 18 inches piled up at Gardner, Massachusetts. Snow amounts exceeded 30 inches in the Catskills in southeastern New York. 3 to 5 inches of rain deluged south coastal New England and wind gusts reached 60 to 90 mph, 1977

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