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On This Day In Weather History - November 18

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1976   Sunny skies and southerly winds helped the temperature to climb from a morning low of 43 degrees to an afternoon high of 78 degrees, providing a one day respite in the midst of Kansas City's coldest November. Otherwise - a very quiet day, with only two years with precipitation of a quarter of an inch or more.


National


1421   72 Dutch villages were swept away when waves from an intense storm system breached coastal dikes on the North Sea Coast of the Netherlands. The so-called St.Elizabeth Flood killed 10,000 people.