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...that on February 1, the National Weather Service began using the Enhanced Fujita Scale to assess tornado damage, in place of the obselete Fujita scale?
...that some weather records include a 57.8°C (136°F) air temperature in Libya, 3.8 cm (1.5 in) of rain in just one minute in Guadeloupe, and a 47.6 cm (18.75 in) circumference hailstone in Nebraska?
...that cold air damming is responsible for most winter weather in the Eastern United States?
...that a late-season tornado outbreak in October of 1996 set many tornado records in the northern Great Plains?
