Portal:Weather/On this day list/December
December 1
[edit]1768: The slave ship Fredensborg sunk in a storm off the coast of Norway.
December 2
[edit]2004: Typhoon Nanmadol made landfall near Casiguran on Luzon, Philippines, killing at least 70 people.
December 3
[edit]2004: Cyclone Agni, a very rare tropical cyclone which approached and may have even crossed the equator, dissipated just off the Somali coast.
December 4
[edit]2012: Typhoon Bopha, the strongest tropical cyclone on record to strike the island of Mindanao, Philippines, made landfall near Baganga. The storm hit with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph (280 km/h), and killed at least 1,900 people.
December 5
[edit]2005: Hurricane Epsilon, the longest lived December Atlantic hurricane in history, reached peak intensity over the open ocean.
December 6
[edit]2003: Tropical Storm Odette, an unusual December tropical cyclone in the northern Atlantic Ocean, made landfall in Jaragua National Park, Dominican Republic. Eight people were killed due to flooding.
December 7
[edit]1991: Cyclone Val began impacting the Samoan Islands, eventually causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage and killing 16 people.
December 8
[edit]1972: PAGASA, the weather forecasting organization of the Philippines, was created after the abolishment of the old Weather Bureau.
December 9
[edit]2003: Tropical Storm Peter, which had been a subtropical storm, became fully tropical. With the formation of Tropical Storm Odette five days earlier, this marked the first time that two tropical cyclones formed in December since 1887.
December 10
[edit]1951: As Typhoon Amy moved slowly across the Philippines, the volcano Mount Hibok-Hibok erupted several times. The typhoon killed nearly 1,000 people across the country, and the volcano killed or displaced nearly 30,000 people due to these and other eruptions in the surrounding days.
December 11
[edit]1997: The Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty which commits its signatories to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to combat global warming, was adopted in Kyoto, Japan.
December 12
[edit]1887: The final tropical cyclone of the 1887 Atlantic hurricane season dissipated over Costa Rica. This was the fifth off-season storm of the year, the most of any year on record.
December 13
[edit]1916: A devastating series of avalanches known as "White Friday" killed 270 soldiers when it struck Austrian and Italian positions along the Italian Front of World War I. Some of the avalanches may have been deliberately triggered by mortar fire.
December 14
[edit]1991: A day after Cyclone Wasa dissipated near the Austral Islands, its remnants regenerated and were given the name Cyclone Arthur.
December 15
[edit]2021: A major severe weather outbreak struck the Central United States, including a derecho with winds up to 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) and 120 tornadoes—the most ever recorded in an outbreak in the month of December.
December 16
[edit]1997: Typhoon Paka struck Guam, damaging or destroying more than 10,000 structures on the island.
December 17
[edit]1944: Typhoon Cobra struck the US Fast Carrier Task Force in the Philippine Sea, killing 790 sailors.
December 18
[edit]1908: Paul Siple, an antarctic explorer who proposed and helped develop the concept of wind chill, was born in Montpelier, Ohio
December 19
[edit]2009: A blizzard brought snowfall of well over 20 inches (51 cm) to parts of the eastern United States, including record totals in Washington, D.C. and Roanoke, Virginia.
December 20
[edit]1947: The Hydrometeorological Institute of Montenegro began operations.
December 21
[edit]1992: Martinair Flight 495 crash-landed in severe weather at Faro Airport in Faro, Portugal.
December 22
[edit]2004: A major snowstorm started dropping as much as 29 inches (74 cm) of snow in the Midwestern United States and Eastern Canada.
December 23
[edit]2015: A tornado outbreak struck the Midwestern and Southeastern United States, killing 13 people.
December 24
[edit]1984: Hurricane Lili, one of just four Atlantic hurricanes on record in December, dissipated just north of Hispaniola.
December 25
[edit]1717: An early morning storm struck a large portion of northern Europe, causing a storm surge that killed around 14,000 people in the Netherlands, Germany, and Scandinavia.
December 26
[edit]2015: A tornado outbreak killed 13 people and caused major damage in northeastern Texas.
December 27
[edit]1836: The deadliest avalanche ever to strike the United Kingdom killed eight people in Lewes, Sussex, England.
December 28
[edit]1879: A waterspout destroyed a rail bridge over the Firth of Tay, Scotland, causing a train crash which killed at least 75 people.
December 29
[edit]1994: Turkish Airlines Flight 278 crashed while attempting to land at Van Ferit Melen Airport in a driving snowstorm, killing 57 of the 76 people on board.
December 30
[edit]2000: A winter storm known as a nor'easter brought up to 29 inches (74 cm) of snow to the Northeastern United States.
December 31
[edit]1963: An unusual snowstorm struck a broad area of the Southeastern United States, leaving record snows in several states.