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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Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 67. West northwest wind around 0 mph.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 92. Northeast wind 0 to 5 mph.
Night: Patchy fog after 5am. Mostly clear, with a low around 64. Southeast wind 0 to 5 mph.
Day: Patchy fog before 8am. Sunny, with a high near 91. Northeast wind 0 to 5 mph.
Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 65. South wind 0 to 5 mph.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 92. North northeast wind 0 to 5 mph.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 65. Southeast wind 0 to 5 mph.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 92. Northeast wind 0 to 5 mph.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 66. South wind 0 to 5 mph.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 92.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 67.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 93.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 67.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 93.
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103 at Rio Grande Village, TX
Fri's Low Temperature
22 at 14 Miles West-southwest Of Mackay, ID
Purvis is a U.S. city in and the county seat of Lamar County, Mississippi. It is part of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,175 at the 2010 census. The Town of Purvis was incorporated on February 25, 1888 and was founded by and named after Thomas Melville Purves, originally of Marion County, Alabama. Purves, born March 8, 1820, was a second generation Scottish-American; his grandfather emigrated to Charleston, South Carolina in 1765.
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