1979 - Hurricane Frederick smashed into the Mobile Bay area of Alabama packing 132 mph winds. Winds gusts to 145 mph were reported as the eye of the hurricane moved over Dauphin Island AL, just west of Mobile. Frederick produced a fifteen foot storm surge near the mouth of Mobile Bay. The hurricane was the costliest in U.S. history causing 2.3 billion dollars damage.
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Day: Patchy fog before 10am. Sunny, with a high near 70. North wind 0 to 5 mph.
Night: Patchy fog after 3am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 44. Southwest wind 0 to 5 mph.
Day: Patchy fog before 10am. Partly sunny, with a high near 69. Southwest wind 0 to 5 mph.
Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 47. Southwest wind around 5 mph.
Day: A slight chance of rain showers after 9am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 71.
Night: A slight chance of rain showers before 9pm. Mostly clear, with a low around 48.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 72.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 47.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 75.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 50.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 78.
Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 52.
Day: Mostly sunny, with a high near 76.
Thu's High Temperature
104 at 4 Miles South Of Tolleson, AZ and Phoenix, AZ
Thu's Low Temperature
29 at Austin, NV
Dixfield is a town in Oxford County, Maine, United States. Dixfield is included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town area. The population was 2,253 at the 2020 census. The town motto of Dixfield is "The Only One", because it is the only town in the world to claim that name. Dr. Elijeh Dix, a substantial landowner in the area, bought the town (and Dixmont) which bears his name. Dixfield contains a census-designated place of the same name.
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