Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Cooperative Economic Insect Report, Vol. 15: December 3, 1965
Highlights: (1) Record California rains end. (2) Severe winter storm, upper Great Lake (3) Continued dry, much of Plains, southern Rockies. (4) Typical winter week of storms, contrast, and change.
Storms: Renewed heavy rains came to Los Angeles on Monday but gradually dimin ih 3_as they moved inland and ended on Thursday. Downtown Los Angeles received an additional inches on Monday, bringing the total in less than 2 weeks to inches. The previous November record was inches (for 30 days) and the monthly normal is only inches. Storm rainfall was near 15 inches in the mountains lying to the northwest, north, and northeast of the Los Angeles Basin. Damage was heavy due to flooding, washouts, and mudslides with at least 4 deaths attributed to the storm. Press reports indicate that a tornado occurred at Pomona, just east of Los Angeles. If confirmed, this would be very unusual for that area. As the storm moved northeastward, more than 4 inches of rain fell in 3 days at Flagstaff, Arizona. Snow blocked the passes in the Sierras and was heavy at higher elevations of the Cascades and Olympic Mountains to the north. Snow in variable amounts came to the Rockies also.
At midweek the storm pattern moved east of the Divide as a very deep Low (974 mb) moved northeastward through Wisconsin. Up to 2 feet of snow fell in northern Minnesota and the Lake Superior region Winds up to 50 m.p.h. Drifted the snow and temperatures dropped to the 10 - 15 range in the wake of the storm making this the first blizzard of the winter. Lighter snow fell in the northern Plains and from the eastern Great Lakes to northern New England. South of the narrow snow belt, there was rain, glaze, or sleet. There were thunderstorms from Illinois and Kentucky to Pennsylvania plus late - season tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. There was one fatality in a storm-wrecked trailer house in Kentucky. Weekly precipitation was light or missing from Texas northward to the Canadian Border and light to moderate over the eastern third of the Nation. Central portions of the Northeast drought area received up to 1 inch.
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