1987 - Thunderstorms produced more than seven inches of rain in Georgia. Four persons drowned, and two others suffered injury, as three couples attempted to cross Mills Stone Creek at Echols Mill in their automobile. Smoke from forest fires in California and Oregon spread across Utah into western Colorado.
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Day: A chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Sunny, with a high near 91. Heat index values as high as 103. Northeast wind 1 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight, then patchy fog. Partly cloudy, with a low around 75. Southeast wind 2 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Day: Patchy fog before 8am, then patchy fog and showers and thunderstorms likely between 8am and 2pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely between 2pm and 5pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely. Partly sunny, with a high near 90. Heat index values as high as 102. North wind 2 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely before 8pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 8pm and 2am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 75. Northeast wind 3 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Day: Showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 85. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Night: Showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 74. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Day: Showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 82. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Night: Showers and thunderstorms before 8pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 73. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Day: A chance of rain showers before 8am, then showers and thunderstorms likely. Partly sunny, with a high near 86. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely before 8pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 73. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Day: A chance of rain showers before 8am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 8am and 2pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely. Partly sunny, with a high near 86. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely before 8pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 73. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Day: A slight chance of rain showers before 8am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 8am and 2pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 85.
Julington Creek
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Green Cove Springs
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Black Creek, S.C.L. RR. bridge
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Switzerland is an unincorporated community in northwest St. Johns County, Florida, United States, adjacent to Fruit Cove.
Along with Fruit Cove, the community is associated to the zip code 32259. Julington Creek or Julington Creek Plantation is part of Fruit Cove. For newer residents, the area of Fruit Cove and Switzerland is called Saint Johns. Switzerland is along the eastern bank of the St. Johns River, across from Green Cove Springs and Middleburg in Clay County, and is south of Jacksonville. The name derives from the late 18th century and early 19th century New Switzerland Plantation of Francis Philip Fatio, which was established between 1771, when Fatio arrived in Florida, and 1774, when Fatio moved from the New Castle Plantation to New Switzerland.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the Switzerland area had one K-12 school named Julington Creek Elementary. In 1981, Allen D Nease Jr-Sr High School was opened and three feeder schools, Julington Creek Elementary, Mill Creek Elementary and Ponte Vedra Elementary 7-12th graders moved to Nease Jr-Sr High School. There are many schools in the Switzerland area. The main elementary schools are Hickory Creek Elementary and Cunningham Creek Elementary. The middle school is Switzerland Point Middle School, and the high school is Bartram Trail High School.
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