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Areas of Excessive Rainfall and Severe Thunderstorm Potential Today

Widespread showers and thunderstorms are forecast for much of the Eastern and Southern U.S. today. Isolated severe thunderstorms may produce large hail and damaging winds over eastern North Carolina and eastern Florida. In the Northeast U.S. heavy rainfall through Saturday may result in isolated flash flooding and minor flooding on rivers and streams. Flood Watches are in effect. Read More >

Weather History Archive

Weather History - March 6th

Local and Regional Events:

March 6th, 1987:

Twenty-eight cities in the north-central U.S. reported record-high temperatures for the date. Pickstown, South Dakota, was the hot spot in the nation with a reading of 83 degrees. The high of 71 at Saint Cloud, Minnesota, smashed their previous record by 21 degrees. 

March 6th, 2000:

A grass fire of unknown origin was exacerbated by dry conditions and strong winds, burning 1500 acres of grassland northwest and north of Brandon in Minnehaha County. The fire threatened several homes, but no homes were damaged, although farmland and equipment burned. In a separate event the same day, a controlled burn went out of control, exacerbated by the conditions and strong winds. The fire caused one fatality and one injury. The damage was confined to grassland.