2018: The GOES-17 geostationary weather satellite was launched.
2003: Cyclone Japhet made landfall near Vilankulo, Mozambique, bringing torrential rain that helped relieve a drought but also brought floods that killed 25 people in Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
1971: A large blizzard hit much of eastern Canada, killing over 30 people.
1992: Cyclone Esau made landfall on New Caledonia, the strongest tropical cyclone on record to do so.
2002: Typhoon Mitag reached peak intensity over the northwestern Pacific Ocean with 1-minute maximum sustained winds of 260 km/h (160 mph). Mitag was the first super typhoon on record in the month of March.
2008: A storm system that would impact most of the eastern half of North America and last for four days started to take shape in the southern United States. There were 15 reports of tornadoes, parts of Ohio would receive over 28 inches (71 cm) of snow, and 17 people were killed.
2004: Cyclone Gafilo, the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the southern Indian Ocean, made landfall in Madagascar as a Category 5 storm.
1988: The remnants of Cyclone Bola passed about 110 kilometers (70 mi) north of New Zealand, causing severe flooding on the North Island.
2014: Cyclone Lusi formed near Vanuatu, causing major flooding over several days that killed 10 people.
2005: Cyclone Ingrid made landfall on the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. This was its second of several landfalls across Northern Australia over the course of 10 days.
2010: Severe flooding led to the failure of the Kyzyl-Agash Dam in Qyzylaghash, Almaty, Kazakhstan, killing at least 43 people.
2006: The worst day of a multi-day outbreak of tornadoes struck the Midwestern and South Central United States, killing 9 people in Illinois and Missouri.
2019: An extratropical storm system began to rapidly intensify over Colorado, bringing blizzard conditions and wind gusts as high as 97 miles per hour (156 km/h) to the state. This storm would move eastward across the Central United States, eventually causing record flooding in several states due to heavy rains and melting snow.
1862: Vilhelm Bjerknes, known as one of the founding fathers of weather forecasting, was born in Christiana (now Oslo), Norway.
1920: A severe blizzard began in North Dakota which would eventually kill 34 people.
1942: An extensive tornado outbreak struck the Midwestern United States, killing 152 people.
2012: Cyclone Lua made landfall near Pardoo Station, Western Australia. Though the storm packed 1-minute maximum sustained winds of 175 kilometres per hour (109 mph), only minor damage was reported due to the sparse population of the area.
1925: The Tri-State Tornado, the longest-tracked tornado in history, killed almost 700 people in the United States Midwest.
2012: A weather radar system named OU-PRIME, used for teaching and research at the University of Oklahoma, was struck by lightning and disabled.
2006: Cyclone Larry made landfall near Innisfail, Queensland, resulting in almost $1 billion (USD) in damage.
1952: A tornado outbreak killed more than 200 people in the Southern United States.
2014: Days of heavy rain led to a major mudslide which destroyed 49 homes east of Oso, Washington, killing 43 people.
1913: A tornado struck the city of Omaha, Nebraska on Easter Sunday, killing more than 100 people.
1911: The passenger ship SS Yongala sank in a cyclone south of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. All 122 passengers and crew were lost.
1948: A second tornado in six days struck Tinker Air Force Base, after the first official tornado prediction ever issued.
1969: Meteor-1 1 the Soviet Union's first fully operational weather satellite, was launched.
2009: The dam holding back Situ Gintung, a lake near Jakarta, Indonesia, failed due to heavy rains in the early morning. At least 100 people died in the ensuing flood.
2004: Hurricane Catarina, the only known severe tropical cyclone ever to form in the southern Atlantic Ocean, made landfall north of Torres, Brazil. More than $350 million (USD) in damage and as many as 10 deaths were caused by the storm.
1998: A supercell dropped 13 tornadoes across southern Minnesota, killing two people in the state's earliest tornado outbreak on record.
2006: Cyclone Glenda, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever in the Australian region, made landfall near Onslow, Western Australia.
2014: Cyclone Hellen made landfall near Mitsinjo, Madagascar, killing 8 people.