March
March 1936 brought severe flooding when temperatures rose above freezing. Above average to near average temperatures were recorded throughout the United States, except for the Pacific Northwest, which was not hit hard by the cold wave. Melting snow and ice caused rivers to burst their banks. It ended as the coldest winter of the 1930s. Four states saw their coldest winter on record, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. In one town in Iowa, the average winter temperature was 31 °F (17 °C) below average.
Read more about this topic: 1936 North American Cold Wave
Famous quotes containing the word march:
“The march of the human mind is slow.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“‘Oh beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly,
Play the Dead March as you carry me along;
Take me to the green valley, there lay the sod o’er me,
For I’m a young cowboy and I know I’ve done wrong.”
—Unknown. As I Walked Out in the Streets of Laredo (l. 5–8)
“What if there’s nothing up there at the top?
Where are the captains that govern mankind?
What tears down a tree that has nothing within it?
A blast of wind, O a marching wind,
March wind, and any old tune,
March march and how does it run.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)