December 1
edit1768: The slave ship Fredensborg sunk in a storm off the coast of Norway.
December 2
edit2004: Typhoon Nanmadol made landfall near Casiguran on Luzon, Philippines, killing at least 70 people.
December 3
edit2004: Cyclone Agni, a very rare tropical cyclone which approached and may have even crossed the equator, dissipated just off the Somali coast.
December 4
edit2012: Typhoon Bopha, the strongest tropical cyclone on record to strike the island of Mindanao, Philippines, made landfall near Baganga. The storm hit with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph (280 km/h), and killed at least 1,900 people.
December 5
edit1953: An F5 tornado killed 38 people near Vicksburg, Mississippi.
December 6
edit2003: Tropical Storm Odette, an unusual December tropical cyclone in the northern Atlantic Ocean, made landfall in Jaragua National Park, Dominican Republic. Eight people were killed due to flooding.
December 7
edit1991: Cyclone Val began impacting the Samoan Islands, eventually causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage and killing 16 people.
December 8
edit2007: The first in a series of winter storms began to affect portions of central and eastern North America. Over the next ten days 64 people would be killed as a result of the storms.
December 9
edit2003: Tropical Storm Peter, which had been a subtropical storm, became fully tropical. With the formation of Tropical Storm Odette five days earlier, this marked the first time that two tropical cyclones formed in December since 1887.
December 10
edit1951: As Typhoon Amy moved slowly across the Philippines, the volcano Mount Hibok-Hibok erupted several times. The typhoon killed nearly 1,000 people across the country, and the volcano killed or displaced nearly 30,000 people due to these and other eruptions in the surrounding days.
December 11
edit1992: A strong nor'easter caused severe coastal flooding in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States, especially the state of New Jersey.
December 12
edit2012: Cyclone Evan began impacting Samoa, eventually killing 14 people across the island country.
December 13
edit1916: A devastating series of avalanches known as "White Friday" killed 270 soldiers when it struck Austrian and Italian positions along the Italian Front of World War I. Some of the avalanches may have been deliberately triggered by mortar fire.
December 14
edit1991: A day after Cyclone Wasa dissipated near the Austral Islands, its remnants regenerated and were given the name Cyclone Arthur.
December 15
edit2016: The first satellite of the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System, a multi-satellite project using GPS signals to probe the inner workings of the atmosphere and ocean within tropical cyclones, was launched.
December 16
edit1997: Typhoon Paka struck Guam, damaging or destroying more than 10,000 structures on the island.
December 17
edit1944: Typhoon Cobra struck the US Fast Carrier Task Force in the Philippine Sea, killing 790 sailors.
December 18
edit1908: Paul Siple, an antarctic explorer who proposed and helped develop the concept of wind chill, was born in Montpelier, Ohio
December 19
edit2009: A blizzard brought snowfall of well over 20 inches (51 cm) to parts of the eastern United States, including record totals in Washington, D.C. and Roanoke, Virginia.
December 20
edit1947: The Hydrometeorological Institute of Montenegro began operations.
December 21
edit1992: Martinair Flight 495 crash-landed in severe weather at Faro Airport in Faro, Portugal.
December 22
edit2004: A major snowstorm started dropping as much as 29 inches (74 cm) of snow in the Midwestern United States and Eastern Canada.
December 23
edit2015: A tornado outbreak struck the Midwestern and Southeastern United States, killing 13 people.
December 24
edit1984: Hurricane Lili, one of just four Atlantic hurricanes on record in December, dissipated just north of Hispaniola.
December 25
edit2011: A severe extratropical cyclone struck Scandinavia, with winds up to 41 metres per second (92 mph; 150 km/h) recorded. In Finland it was described as the worst storm in 10 years, and one person was killed by a falling tree.
December 26
edit2015: A tornado outbreak killed 13 people and caused major damage in northeastern Texas.
December 27
edit1836: The deadliest avalanche ever to strike the United Kingdom killed eight people in Lewes, Sussex, England.
December 28
edit1879: A waterspout destroyed a rail bridge over the Firth of Tay, Scotland, causing a train crash which killed at least 75 people.
December 29
edit1994: Turkish Airlines Flight 278 crashed while attempting to land at Van Ferit Melen Airport in a driving snowstorm, killing 57 of the 76 people on board.
December 30
edit2000: A winter storm known as a nor'easter brought up to 29 inches (74 cm) of snow to the Northeastern United States.
December 31
edit1963: An unusual snowstorm struck a broad area of the Southeastern United States, leaving record snows in several states.