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Map key. The Perfect Storm originated from a cold front that exited the east coast of the United States. On October 28, the front spawned an extratropical low to the east of Nova Scotia. Around that time, a ridge extended from the Appalachian Mountains northeastward to Greenland, with a strong high pressure center over eastern Canada.
- 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 ...
Dec 14, 2023 · “The Perfect Storm” was released in June 2000, near the ninth anniversary of the real-life storm that inspired the book and subsequent film. The film’s marketing campaign emphasized its thrilling and suspenseful nature.
Mar 16, 2024 · In 1991, the fishing vessel F/V Andrea Gail set off from Massachusetts and got caught in a "Perfect Storm," leading the ship and its six-man crew to become lost at sea.
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....
October 30-31, 2021 marks 30 years since this major coastal storm wrought havoc on coastal southern New England and the offshore waters.
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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.
