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On This Day In Weather History - December 8
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1917	The average temperature for the day was zero (Max, +7, .Min, .-7), the earliest in the cool season that this has been recorded.
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2002	Super Typhoon Pongsona devastated Guam with sustained winds of 180 mph. It destroyed 2,000 homes. Electricity and water were shut off. Schools were closed and transformed into emergency shelters. Cars were flipped and stacked three high.
1963	A Boeing 707 exploded near Elkton, MD killing 81. Lightning is believed to have caused the explosion of residual fuel vapor in one of the outboard wing tanks as the plane passed through a vicious, out-of-season thunderstorm.

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