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Semi-relevant events that are semi-relevant to meteorology: February 19
1600 - The stratovolcano Huaynaputina in Perú explodes. This is the most violent eruption in recorded South American history.
1859 - Svante Arrhenius is born. Arrhenius was a chemists and physicist that came up with the idea of the greenhouse effect in 1896. His law states that “if the quantity of carbonic acid increases in geometric progression, the augmentation of temperature will increase nearly in arithmetic progression.” It is simplified to ∆F=α ln(C/C0).
1884 - The Enigma tornado outbreak. Over 60 tornadoes ravage the southern United States. It was one of the largest tornado outbreaks in US history. The strongest rating were several F4 tornadoes (based on records). An estimated 120 to 1000 people died.
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