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On This Day In Weather History - July 4
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1984	Independence Day was a soggy one as showers and thunderstorms produced 3.63 inches of rain. From then on July of 1984 was relatively dry with just 1.03 inches between July 5 1984 and the end of August 1984.
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1776	Thomas Jefferson, on his way to Congress to sign the Declaration of Independence, purchased a thermometer. At 2 pm it was cloudy with a temperature of 76 degrees.
1956	The world's greatest one-minute rainfall amount was recorded: 1.23 inches at Unionville, MD.
1980	The first of 17 consecutive days with temperatures 100 degrees or hotter in Kansas City, MO.

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