1815 - One of the greatest hurricanes to strike New England made landfall at Long Island and crossed Massachusetts and New Hampshire. It was the worst tempest in nearly two hundred years, equal to the hurricane which struck in 1938, and one of a series of severe summer and autumn storms to affect shipping lanes that year.
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Day: Sunny, with a high near 93. Heat index values as high as 103. South wind around 5 mph.
Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 72. South wind around 5 mph.
Day: A slight chance of rain showers between 7am and 1pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely. Partly sunny. High near 90, with temperatures falling to around 82 in the afternoon. Heat index values as high as 100. South southwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Night: Showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 69. Southwest wind 0 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.
Day: Rain showers likely before 1pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 1pm and 4pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 83. West wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 64. Northwest wind 0 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 83. North wind 0 to 10 mph.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 60. North northeast wind 0 to 5 mph.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 86. North wind 0 to 10 mph.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 60.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 87.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 63.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 88.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 64.
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107 at Rio Grande Village, TX
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17 at 14 Miles West-southwest Of Mackay, ID
Port Gibson is a city and the county seat of Claiborne County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,567 at the 2010 census. It is bordered on the west by the Mississippi River.
The first European settlers in Port Gibson were French colonists in 1729; it was part of their La Louisiane. After the United States acquired the territory from France in 1803 in the Louisiana Purchase, the town was chartered that same year. To develop cotton plantations in the area after Indian Removal of the 1830s, planters who moved to the state brought with them or imported thousands of enslaved African Americans from the Upper South, disrupting many families. Well before the Civil War, the majority of the county's population were enslaved.
Several notable people are natives of Port Gibson. The town saw action during the American Civil War. Port Gibson has several historical sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places (National Register of Historic Places listings in Claiborne County, Mississippi).
In the twentieth century, Port Gibson was home to The Rabbit's Foot Company. It had a substantial role in the development of blues in Mississippi, operating taverns and juke joints now included on the Mississippi Blues Trail.
In the second half of the twentieth century many jobs in agriculture were lost because of industrialization, which, combined with a lack of other jobs, has led to a substantial loss of population and to poverty in the city and the surrounding county. Port Gibson's population peaked in 1950. The last major employer, the Port Gibson Oil Works, a cottonseed mill, closed in 2002.
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