DURHAM, N.H. — In keeping with a year that has seen rankings of the century’s top athletes, books, news events and entertainers, climatologist Barry Keim has come up with his Top 10 New England weather events of the century.

But he didn’t rate them. Instead, he listed the events — from floods to the Blizzard of ’78 to last year’s ice storm — chronologically.

The list begins with Nov. 3-4, 1927, and a storm that dropped almost 10 inches of rain across central Vermont, leading to flooding and 84 deaths. It is still considered the worst weather event in state history.

It was one of three rainstorms Keim listed.

In mid-March 1936, two heavy storms and a greater-than-normal snowpack produced New England’s worst flooding on record. In Hooksett, 18 to 20 feet of water gushed down the main street. Flooding from the Merrimack River badly damaged the Amoskeag Mills in Manchester.

On Oct. 20-21, 1996, record rainfall fell in Maine and New Hampshire. In Camp Ellis, Maine, 19.2 inches fell, and in 24 hours, 10.8 inches soaked Mount Washington.

On April 12, 1934, the highest wind speed ever recorded — 231 mph — whipped across Mount Washington.

Two hurricanes and even a tornado made Kleim’s list, as well.

The Hurricane of 1938 on Sept. 21 killed more than 600 people, primarily from a 17-foot storm surge along the Connecticut and Rhode Island coasts. High winds and rain also destroyed large stands of trees all the way to the White Mountains, with flash flooding in Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire.

On Aug. 17-19, 1955, Hurricane Diane dropped a New England record of 18.15 inches of rain in 24 hours, and a total of 19.75 inches, causing massive flooding. Making it worse, the hurricane arrived only a few days after Hurricane Connie.

The Worcester Tornado touched down June 9, 1953, with winds of 200 mph to 260 mph. In 80 minutes, it carved a 46-mile path from Petersham, Mass., to Southboro, Mass., and killed 90 people.

The same day, tornadoes touched Exeter and Sutton, Mass.

The other three events came in winter — two blizzards and the ice storm of Jan. 5-9, 1998. Power outages took months to fix; northern New England’s forests will take decades to recover.

On Feb. 22-28, 1969, a nor’easter dropped more than three feet of snow across large portions of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, with 98 inches on Mount Washington. Only two weeks earlier, another storm dropped one to two feet of snow on the region.

And on Feb. 5-7, 1978, the heavy snow and hurricane-force winds of the Blizzard of ’78 — caused by an intense coastal nor’easter — paralyzed the region for more than a week. Fifty inches of snow blanketed Northern Rhode Island, while most of southeastern New England was buried under three feet or more.