This Day in Weather History

On This Day In Weather History - July 1
Local
1988	The average temperature was only 63 degrees, even though Kansas City was in the midst of a drought, a cool Canadian high pressure center had moved farther south than normal, so that the daytime high was only 66 degrees, the lowest high temperature for the date and month.
National
1988	Mount Washington, NH reported 4 inches of snow.
1931	The summer flood along the Yangtze River during July and August 1931 was the most severe in history, with over 51 million Chinese affected. 3.7 million people perished from this greatest disaster of the century due to disease, starvation or drowning. This flood was preceded by a prolonged drought in China during the 1928-1930 period.
1825	Kentucky's first official weather observation was taken in Newport. The day was calm with sunny skies in the morning and increasing clouds in the afternoon. The temperature peaked around 80 degrees.