1985: Snowfall of 4 to 8 inches spread from the southwest part of South Dakota on the morning of the 13th to the northeast part of the state by early morning on the 14th. Winds gusted to 35 mph in the western half of the state and produced considerable blowing and drifting snow, which greatly reduced visibilities. The snowfall caused many accidents, including a four vehicle pileup that occurred three miles east of De Smet in Kingsbury County, during the afternoon of the 13th. Some snowfall amounts include; 7.0 inches in Britton; 5.5 inches in Timber Lake and 5.0 inches in Leola.

1904: An Atlantic hurricane passed by the North Carolina coast causing some damage. Oddly, the rotation of the storm brought the same coastline a snowstorm the following day.

1933: The first great dust storm of the Dust Bowl era of the 1930's occurred. The storm spread from Montana on the 12th to the Ohio Valley and the Atlantic Seaboard on the 13th, resulting in a black rain over New York and a brown snow in Vermont. Dust reduced the visibility to half a mile at Monteagle, TN, and to 3/4 of a mile at Bowman Field in Louisville.

1946: GE scientist Vincent Schaefer unloaded dry ice into a cloud over western Massachusetts, which subsequently produced snowfall. This experiment served as a basis for further studies to modify weather.

1976: An F3 tornado struck Sandon, Australia, on the Pacific coast. The tornado lifted a car 20 feet off the ground and threw it 300 feet into a ditch, killing the two occupants.