Hurricane Nora was the fourteenth named tropical cyclone and seventh hurricane of the 1997 Pacific hurricane season, and only the third tropical storm on record to reach Arizona. Forming on September 16 off the Pacific coast of Mexico, the storm was aided by waters warmed by El Niño, and eventually peaked at Category 4 intensity on the Saffir- Simpson Hurricane Scale. It made its first landfall as a hurricane in central Baja California; later the same day, it became one of the few hurricanes to make a landfall in northern Baja. The storm was blamed for two direct casualties in Mexico, as well as substantial beach erosion on the Mexican coast and flash flooding in Baja. Although Nora weakened quickly after landfall, its remnants lashed the Southwestern United States with tropical-storm-force winds, torrential rain, and flooding. Arizona received record precipitation. The remnants persisted far inland, dissipating near the Arizona–Nevada border, although near- hurricane-force winds were observed as far north as Cedar City, Utah.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1776:
American Revolutionary War: On hearing the British troops sounding their bugles as if it were a fox hunt, the American colonists held their ground and were victorious at the Battle of Harlem Heights in present-day New York City. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Harlem_Heights
1940:
World War II: Italy captured the town of Sidi Barrani, but its invasion of Egypt progressed no further. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_invasion_of_Egypt
1961:
Typhoon Nancy (radar image pictured), with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, made initial landfall in Muroto, Kōchi, Japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Nancy_(1961)
1982:
A Lebanese militia under the direct command of Elie Hobeika carried out a massacre in the Palestinian refugee camp of Sabra and Shatila, killing at least 700 civilians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre
1994:
The British government lifted its ban that prevented Sinn Féin and several Irish republican and loyalist groups from being broadcast on television and radio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988%E2%80%9394_British_broadcasting_voice_restrictions
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
compotator: One who drinks (alcoholic beverages) with another; a fellow drinker. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/compotator
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind, One with the clouds that are whirled o'er the lea, One in many, O broken and blind, One as the waves are at one with the sea! Ay! when life seems scattered apart, Darkens, ends as a tale that is told, One, we are one, O heart of my heart, One, still one, while the world grows old. --Alfred Noyes https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_Noyes
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