A bunch of weather history for y'all today!

• 1890: A severe hailstorm struck Strawberry, Arizona. Five days after the storm hail still lay in drifts 12 to 18 inches deep.
• 1913: Des Moines, Iowa experiences the earliest freeze on record
• 1945: The Pee Dee River at Pee Dee, South Carolina reached its all-time highest crest of 33.30 feet. This far surpassed its major flood stage of 28 feet.
• 1961: Hurricane Esther made a nearly complete circle south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The hurricane passes through the cape and into Maine.
• 1983: Forty-one cities reported record cold temperatures during the morning. Houston, Texas, hit 50*F, and Williston, North Dakota plunged to 19*F.
• 1987: Hurricane Emily, the first hurricane to roam the Caribbean in nearly six years, made landfall over the Dominican Republic late in the day, packing 125 mph winds. Emily took the lives of three people. Meanwhile, Miami, Florida reported a record temperature of 92*F.
• 1988: An early morning thunderstorm produced baseball size hail at Plainview, in Hale County Texas. Late in the evening more thunderstorms in the Southern High Plains Region produced wind gusts to 75 mph at Plainview, Texas and Crosby, Texas.
• 2005: For the first time in the historical record, two hurricanes reached category 5 intensity in the Gulf of Mexico in a single season as Hurricane Rita intensified before making landfall. (Katrina and Rita)