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:
“Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“After the brief bivouac of Sunday,
their eyes, in the forced march of Monday to Saturday,
hoist the white flag, flutter in the snow storm of paper,”
—Patricia K. Page (b. 1916)
“The next thing his Lordship does, after clearing of the coast, is the dividing of his forces, as he calls them, into two squadrons, one of places of Scriptures, the other of reasons....
All that I have to say touching this, is that I observe a great part of those his forces do look and march another way, and some of them fight amongst themselves.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)