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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...
Mar 16, 2024 · By the time the storm was over, it had caused nearly $500 million in damage and 13 deaths. Meteorologists remained divided about what exactly had caused this “perfect storm” to grow so suddenly before retrograding.
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 29, 2021 · Thirty years ago, a trio of atmospheric factors came together to form a storm so uniquely dangerous and powerful that its mesmerizing development could only be described in one way: perfect.
Oct 30, 1991 · On 30 October 1991, this nor’easter reached peak intensity when it was 340 miles (547 km) south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, but the storm had been building since 28 October 1991 when it killed the six crew members of the Andrea Gail.
