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Weather in northwest Orange County for Tuesday, March 21, 2023:
Today:
Rain, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. High near 62. Breezy, with a southeast wind 20 to 25 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 40 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Tonight:
Rain and possibly a thunderstorm. Low around 49. Southwest wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Rain is expected through Wednesday, followed by sunny skies and temperatures in the 60s.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1617 Pocahontas (Rebecca Rolfe) dies of either small pox or pneumonia while in England with her husband, John Rolfe.
- 1788 Almost the entire city of New Orleans, Louisiana, is destroyed by fire.
- 1806 Lewis and Clark begin their trip home after an 8,000 mile trek of the Mississippi basin and the Pacific Coast.
- 1865 The Battle of Bentonville, N.C. ends, marking the last Confederate attempt to stop Union General William Sherman.
- 1885 Birth of Raoul Lufbery, French-born American fighter pilot of World War I.
- 1906 Ohio passes a law that prohibits hazing by fraternities.
- 1910 The U.S. Senate grants ex-President Teddy Roosevelt an annual pension of $10,000.
- 1928 President Calvin Coolidge presents the Congressional Medal of Honor to Charles Lindbergh, a captain in the US Army Air Corps Reserve, for making the first solo trans-Atlantic flight. On June 11, 1927, Lindbergh had received the first Distinguished Flying Cross ever awarded.
- 1939 Singer Kate Smith records “God Bless America” for Victor Records.
- 1951 Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall reports that the U.S. military has doubled to 2.9 million since the start of the Korean War.
- 1963 Alcatraz Island, the federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, California, closes.
- 1965 The United States launches Ranger 9, last in a series of unmanned lunar explorations.
- 1971 Two U.S. platoons in Vietnam refuse their orders to advance.
- 1980 President Jimmy Carter announces to the U.S. Olympic Team that they will not participate in the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow as a boycott against Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.
