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Damage from the storm totaled over $200 million (1991 USD) [2] and thirteen people were killed in total, six of which were an outcome of the sinking of Andrea Gail, which inspired the book and later movie, The Perfect Storm.
- The Atlantic Low
- Ingesting A Hurricane Remnant
- Impact
- The 'Unnamed Hurricane'
- The Halloween Blizzard of 1991
After a strong cold front swept off the East Coast, an area of low pressure developed along the front east of Nova Scotia on Oct. 28, 1991, quickly intensifying into the following day. As it did so, a strong area of high pressure was burgeoning over eastern Canada, producing a tremendous pressure gradient between the high and the lowering pressure ...
On Oct. 29, the large non-tropical low south of Nova Scotia began to absorb Hurricane Grace, wrapping in its tropical moisture and likely receiving an injection of energy. You can see the evolution of this development in a YouTube clip featuring Stu Ostro’sanalysis from The Weather Channel’s coverage of the storm. Grace was whipped quickly just sou...
High winds lashed the New England coast on Oct. 30 and 31, with peak Massachusetts gusts of 78 mph at Chatham, 74 mph at Thatcher Island and 68 mph at Marblehead. A 63-mph gust was reported at Newport, Rhode Island. These high winds whipped up pounding surf caused by the long overwater fetch length and duration of the Perfect Storm, leading to coas...
This is where it got weird. As the overall storm began to weaken after lashing the East Coast, a tiny circulation within the storm intensified over the warm Gulf Stream into a full-fledged hurricane on Nov. 1, 1991. The U.S. Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters flew into this hurricane and measured maximum flight-level winds of 99 mph a few thousand...
As the Perfect Storm was morphing into an unnamed hurricane, a blizzard of historic proportions was raging over parts of the upper Midwest. The storm developed over the far western Gulf of Mexico off the Texas coast on Oct. 30, then strengthened and tracked north-northeast toward Minnesota and Wisconsin on Halloween and Nov. 1. Its connection with ...
Oct 30, 2018 · The Halloween storm caused $168 million damage and killed six other people, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said. The storm moved over warm Gulf Stream waters and turned...
In 1991, as Halloween nears, a cold front moves south from Canada, a hurricane swirls over Bermuda, and an intense storm builds over the Great Lakes. These forces converge to create the cruelest holiday trick of all, a 100-year tempest that catches the North Atlantic fishing fleet off guard and unprotected.
Oct 30, 1991 · The Perfect Storm makes landfall along the North Atlantic seaboard, October 30, 1991. NOAA image. Also known as the Halloween Storm, “The Perfect Storm” of literary and Hollywood fame wracked the Atlantic seaboard in late October 1991 and sunk the Andrea Gail.
Apr 5, 2019 · Many locations up and down the Atlantic coast saw tide, flood, and storm surge records broken. In Ocean City, Maryland, a record high tide of 7.8 feet occurred beating the old record of 7.5 feet recorded during a March 1962 storm. Damages in Massachusetts topped $100 million dollars.
Jan 4, 2019 · Dubbed "The Perfect Storm" by National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologist Bob Case, this remarkable weather event cost the 6-person crew of the Andrea Gail their lives as the storm exploded around then in late October 1991.
