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On This Day In Weather History - November 13

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1986   The mercury dipped to 3 degrees above zero at KCI, as Kansas City was in the grips of a five day early season cold wave. That low of 3 degrees proved to be the coldest temperature of 1986-87 season.


National


1933   The first dust storm of the great Dust Bowl era of the 1930's occurred. The storm spread from Montana to the Ohio Valley to the Atlantic Seaboard, resulting in a black rain over New York and a brown snow in Vermont. Dust reduced the visibility in Tennessee to just half a mile.