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...ON THIS DATE IN WEATHER HISTORY.
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In 2012, Death Valley California had a "low" temperature
of 107 degrees.  This tied the world record for warmest
low temperature.  With a high of 128 degrees, the average
temperature for the date was 117.5 degrees, which is the
world record for the hottest calendar day average
temperature.  

In 1951, the Kansas River Valley Flood reached a plateau
when the Kansas, Neosho, Verdigris and Marais Des Cygnes
Rivers inundated most of Northeast and East Central
Kansas.  Primed by record-setting rainfalls that swamped
most of these areas in May and June, the flooding was
escalated by astonishing 8 to 16 inch rainfalls that
inundated many areas from July 9th to the 12th.   The
Kansas River crested 4 to 6 FEET ABOVE ALL RECORDS from
Manhattan to Bonner Springs, and crests on the Marais Des
Cygnes, Verdigris and Neosho Rivers crested some 9 FEET
ABOVE ALL OF THEIR RESPECTIVE RECORDS.	In all, 28 died
in the worst flood on record for the Kansas River and its
tributaries that caused around $1 billion damage.