Ye cannot rival for one hour
October's bright blue weather.
Jackson
AD 679 Cotton-like matter about 6 feet long fell over Naniwa in Japan and was drifted by the wind here and there.
1839 De Cuppis at Rome saw a round dark spot crossing the Sun. Leverrier considered this to be a certain observation of the intraMercurian planet Vulcan.
1908 Tillypronie, Scotland, at a height of 1,120 feet, (341 m.) registered a temperature of 81° F. (27° C.)
1852 Four hop-pickers were killed and 16 injured when they were struck by lightning at Sutton Valence in Kent.
1831 Hailstones or ice masses as large as a fist fell at Constantinople.
1880 A great prominence on the Sun's limb rose to a height of over 350,000 miles (563,000 km.) in less than one hour.
1829 Large flakes of snow fell and covered the ground thickly at Chiswick, west London. The wind was strong from the north-east.
1130 A monster like a serpent flew over Bohemia and many other places for a short time about sunset. This may have been the serpentine track of a large meteor.
1604 Discovery date of the supernova known as Kepler's Star. The star reached maximum brightness, about magnitude -3, on October 28
1114 The River Thames was so low that multitudes of men and boys waded across between London Bridge and the royal tower.
1858 The tail of Donati's Comet reached a length of 50 million miles, (80 million km.) and appeared to be 60 degrees long.
1869 'Vast numbers' of spiders and webs fell at Tiverton in Devon.
1838 Many chondritic carbonaceous meteorites fell at Cold Bokkevold, South Africa.
1761 A tornado at Great Malvern in Worcestershire "had the appearance of a volcano" and was accompanied by great noise.
1780 A gale swept England: it was originally a hurricane which killed 20,000 people in the West Indies. A tornado did much damage at Hammersmith.
1942 A typhoon storm surge flooded 5,000 square miles of Bengal and drowned 40,000 persons.
1846 Blood-red rain and red dust fell at Lyon in France, accompanied by a 'hurricane' from the south.
1832 A thick yellow fog in Saxony was dissipated by an earthquake.
1877 A huge ball of green fire fell during a severe gale in England.
1824 The astronomer Gruithuisen saw an 'intermittently flashing light' on the dark part of the Moon.
1638 A tornado struck Widecombe church, Devon, during a service. A pinnacle fell through the roof. A lightning ball exploded in the church, killing 6 or 7 persons.
1928 A tornado crossed central London from Victoria to Euston, blowing much masonry into the streets.
1839 An earthquake which shook two-thirds of Scotland was centred on Comrie in Perthshire, the most earthquake-prone town in Britain.
1870 A great aurora seen from London. At 8 pm the sky seemed to be a mass of fire, and brilliant crimson rays shot up to the zenith.
1859 A hurricane-like gale in England, with a calm 'eye'. The Royal Charter steamer was lost with 480 lives. 68 other vessels were wrecked.
1859 One of the columns in the Temple of Jupiter Olympus at Athens was felled by a nocturnal 'hurricane' - probably a tornado.
1913 A tornado in South Wales killed three people and did much damage. The tornado later touched down in Cheshire, felling hundreds of trees.
1899 A round luminous object as large as the Moon was seen for 15 minutes in the sky over Luzarches in France.
1836 An inch of snow fell in London: near Bury St. Edmunds (Suffolk), the snow was nearly a foot deep and lay for five days.
1937 The asteroid Hermes passed within 485,000 miles (780,000 km.) of the Earth, missing collision by a few hours. It was about 5 miles (8 km.) wide. The asteroid has since been lost.
1322 The Sun became blood-coloured in England from 7 am to 1 pm.