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[edit] December 2
1996: The final WSR-57 weather radar was decommissioned.
[edit] December 16
1997: Typhoon Paka struck the island of Guam with winds which may have exceeded 200 mph (320 km/h).
[edit] December 17
1944: Typhoon Cobra struck a US Naval Fleet in the Philippine Sea, killing 790 sailors.
[edit] December 20
2006: The first of two blizzards within a 9-day period crippled the area around Denver, Colorado with up to 40 inches (1000 mm) of snow.
[edit] December 24
1984: Hurricane Lili, the longest-lived Atlantic hurricane on record in December, finally dissipates just north of Hispaniola.
[edit] December 26
2001: Tropical Storm Vamei forms only 1.4° (104 miles, 170 km) from the equator. This was the closest to the equator a tropical cyclone had ever formed. Tropical cyclones rarely approach the equator due to the lack of the Coriolis effect which typically powers their circulation.
[edit] December 31
1963: An unusual snowstorm struck a broad area of the Southeastern United States, leaving record snows in several states.
