Tropical Storm Marco was the smallest tropical cyclone on record. The
thirteenth named storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, Marco
developed out of a broad area of low pressure over the northwestern
Caribbean during late September 2008. Influenced by a tropical wave on
October 4, a small low-level circulation center developed over Belize.
After crossing the southern end of the Yucatán Peninsula, the low was
declared Tropical Depression Thirteen early on October 6. The
depression quickly intensified into a tropical storm (pictured) and was
given the name Marco later that day. Marco reached its peak intensity
with winds of 65 miles per hour (100 km/h) early on October 7. Around
this time, tropical storm force winds extended 11.5 miles (18.5 km)
from the center of the storm, making Marco the smallest tropical cyclone
on record. Around 1200 UTC, Marco made landfall near Misantla,
Veracruz. The storm rapidly weakened after landfall, dissipating later
that day. Because of its small size, Marco caused minimal damage.
However, the storm's heavy rains led to floods up to 10 feet (3.0 m)
deep that covered highways and damaged homes.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Marco_(2008)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
404:
Aelia Eudoxia, empress consort of Byzantine emperor Arcadius,
died from complications of childbirth.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aelia_Eudoxia>
1683:
German immigrants to the Pennsylvania Colony founded
Germantown, the first permanent German settlement in North America.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American>
1908:
Austria-Hungary announced the annexation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, causing a crisis that permanently damaged their relations
with Russia and the Kingdom of Serbia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_crisis>
1973:
Egypt, under the leadership of President Anwar Sadat, launched
Operation Badr in co-ordination with Syria, crossing the Suez Canal and
attacking the fortified Israeli Bar Lev Line, starting the Yom Kippur
War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War>
1998:
University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was attacked and
fatally wounded for being gay near Laramie, Wyoming, US, dying six days
later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Shepard>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
wizened:
Withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wizened>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need
just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
--Le Corbusier
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Le_Corbusier>