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Aerial view of Lake McConaughy from the south. The lake, formed by Kingsley Dam, is a man-made body of water that is 22 miles (35 km) long, 4 miles (6.4 km) wide at its largest point, and 142 feet (43 m) deep near the dam (at full capacity) – it was constructed between 1936 and 1941 and is fed by the North Platte River. [2]
Matthew David McConaughey was born on November 4, 1969 in Uvalde, Texas. [1] [2] He has Irish heritage, particularly from the County Cavan/County Monaghan area. [3]His mother, Mary Kathleen (née McCabe), a published author and a former kindergarten teacher, [4] was from Trenton, New Jersey. [5]
Matthew McConaughey filmography. Matthew McConaughey is an American actor who made his breakthrough by starring in the Richard Linklater -directed coming of age comedy Dazed and Confused in 1993. [1][2] His first lead role was in the 1996 film adaptation of the John Grisham novel A Time to Kill. [3]
Kingsley Dam is located on the east side of Lake McConaughy in central Keith County, Nebraska, and was the second largest hydraulic fill dam in the world at the time of its completion. [1] It was built as part of the New Deal project. [2] The dam is 162 feet (49 m) tall, 3.1 miles (5.0 km) long, and 1,100 feet (340 m) wide at its base.
The temperature was 1.71°F (0.95°C) above the 20th century average. It was the hottest ever recorded May in the Northern Hemisphere, and for all of Asia. [9] June 2020 had an average global surface land and water temperature of 61.56 °F (16.42 °C), which was 1.66°F (0.92°C) above the 20th century average.
Hurricane Delta was the record-tying fourth named storm of 2020 to make landfall in Louisiana, as well as the record-breaking tenth named storm to strike the United States in that year. The twenty-sixth tropical cyclone, twenty-fifth named storm, tenth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the record-breaking 2020 Atlantic hurricane season ...
The 2020 California wildfire season, part of the 2020 Western United States wildfire season, was a record-setting year for wildfires in California. Over the course of the year, 8,648 fires burned 4,304,379 acres (1,741,920 ha), [1][2] more than four percent of the state's roughly 100 million acres of land, making 2020 the largest wildfire ...
Mid-January storm complex. In mid-January 2020, a complex system of winter storms that crossed North America, bringing heavy snowfall and high winds to Atlantic Canada and the northern United States between 15 and 18 January. At least one person was killed, in California, while at least one went missing, in Newfoundland.