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Weather in northwest Orange County for Wednesday, March 29, 2023:
Today:
Rain, mainly before 11am. The rain could be heavy at times. High near 61. South wind 10 to 15 mph becoming west in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Tonight:
A chance of showers, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 11pm. Low around 47. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Partly to mostly sunny skies are expected through next week, with highs in the 60s.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
- 1652 Birth of Samuel Sewall, British colonial merchant and one of the Salem witch trial judges.
- 1774 Britain passes the Coercive Act against rebellious Massachusetts.
- 1818 Birth of Wade Hampton, Confederate general in the American Civil War.
- 1864 A group of Copperheads attack Federal soldiers in Charleston, Illinois. Five are killed and twenty wounded.
- 1885 The Salvation Army is officially organized in the United States.
- 1908 Automobile owners lobby Congress in support of a bill that calls for vehicle licensing and federal registration.
- 1921 President Warren Harding names William Howard Taft as chief justice of the United States.
- 1929 Birth of Frederick Exley, American novelist (A Fan’s Notes).
- 1930 Birth of Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, helped confirm the existence of quarks.
- 1962 The U.S. Air Force announces research into the use of lasers to intercept missiles and satellites.
- 1969 Dwight D. Eisenhower dies at Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, D.C.
- 1979 A major accident occurs at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear power plant
- 1986 The U.S. Senate passes $100 million aid package for the Nicaraguan contras.
- 1990 Jesse Owens receives the Congressional Gold Medal from President George Bush.
- 1999 An American Stealth F117 Nighthawk is shot down over northern Yugoslavia during NATO air strikes.
