The Great New England Hurricane of 1938 (CAT 3 - September 21, 1938) CAT 3 - September 21, 1938 The Great New England Hurricane of 1938 was one of the most destructive and powerful storms ever to strike Southern New England. This system developed in the far eastern Atlantic, near the Cape Verde Islands on September 4.
It made a twelve day journey across the Atlantic and up the Eastern Seaboard before crashing ashore on September 21 at Suffolk County, Long Island, then into Milford, Connecticut. The eye of the hurricane was observed in New Haven, Connecticut, 10 miles east of Milford. The center made landfall at the time of astronomical high tide, moving north at 60 mph. Sustained hurricane force winds occurred throughout most of Southern New England. The hurricane produced storm tides of 14 to 18 feet across most of the Connecticut coast, with 18 to 25 foot tides from New London east to Cape Cod.
Rainfall from this hurricane resulted in severe river flooding across sections of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Summary. A Decade of Monster Hurricanes. Super Typhoon Haiyan as it made landfall in the PhilippinesNOAA Earlier this month, Super Typhoon Haiyan stunned the meteorological community. The Navy's Joint Typhoon Warning Center, which tracked the storm, estimated its maximum one-minute sustained wind speeds at more than 195 miles per hour based on satellite imagery. If confirmed, that would exceed the official wind speed estimates for all other hurricanes and typhoons in the modern period.
(Prior to 1969, some Pacific storms were recorded as stronger, but these measurements are now considered too high.) But here's the thing: Haiyan isn't the globe's only record-breaking hurricane in recent years. At the outset, we need an important caveat. The Atlantic Basin: The Atlantic region—which encompasses the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico as well as the open Atlantic north of the equator—is the best studied hurricane basin on Earth, thanks to the work of the Miami-based National Hurricane Center. And that's not Wilma's only record. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory - Historical Atlantic Hurricane and Tropical Storm Records.
Gabriel A. Vecchi and Thomas R. Knutson Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA, Princeton, NJ. Observational records of tropical storm and hurricanes are essential in order to discern how climatic changes have influenced tropical storms and hurricanes, and to build predictive understanding of the influence of climate on hurricanes. Here we provide a brief summary of work, in which GFDL scientists have been involved, that aim at assessing and improving our century-scale records of Atlantic tropical cyclones.
This website includes access to storm databases with estimates of the influence of observational changes, images and audio files. Click for larger image Figure 1: Atlantic tropical storms lasting more than 2 days have not increased in number. There has been a very pronounced increase in the number of tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic since the late-1980s. Figure 2: Atlantic tropical storm counts adjusted for likely missing storms. (Click for larger image) 9 Records Blown Away by Superstorm Sandy. NASA Goddard Photo and Video/CC BY 2.0 "We knew that this was going to be a very dangerous storm, and the storm has met our expectations," said Mayor Michael Bloomberg in a press conference on Monday evening – and meet them it did.
Although not quite a hurricane by the time she reached landfall in New York, superstorm Sandy stunned with her strength, size and tenacity, setting a striking number of records before moving on from the East Coast and marching her sassy self off to northern climes. "There are no precedents for Sandy," Bill Read, former director of the National Hurricane Center told the Houston Chronicle, and indeed, the numbers prove the statement.
Here's how Sandy has outdone the others, earning her the title as one of the record-breakingest storms in recorded history. 1. With a record low barometric pressure of 27.76, Sandy was the strongest hurricane north of Cape Hatteras to ever make landfall. 2. She was a big girl. 3. 4. MTAPhotos/CC BY 2.0 The surf was up, and how. 5. 6. The Most Devastating Hurricanes in U.S. History. 5 Deadliest Hurricanes Next Throughout history hurricanes and tropical storms have caused massive amounts of damage and misery in the United States. On the following pages we look at some of most devastating in history, from the deadliest hurricanes to major flood disasters caused by tropical storms. (PHOTOS & MORE: Hurricane Week) Storm surge is a common theme in the five deadliest hurricanes and caused the majority of the deaths and destruction.
(VIDEO: What is Storm Surge?) 1. 1900 Galveston, Texas Hurricane: Roughly 8,000 people were killed by this Category 4 hurricane, though some estimates put the death toll as high as 12,000. 2. 1928 Southeast Florida/Lake Okeechobee Hurricane: Roughly 2,500 were killed, but it's possible this number is as high as 3,000. 3. 2005 Hurricane Katrina (MS/LA): A total of 1,200 direct deaths. (WATCH: Tropical Update) 4. 1893 Cheniere Caminanda Hurricane (LA): Between 1,100 and 1,400 were killed by this Category 4 hurricane.
Ten Most Damaging US Hurricane Maps & Satellite Images | Esri Disaster Maps. Hurricane Sandy vs. Katrina Infographic Examines Destruction From Both Storms. Over 100 people have died in the U.S. alone so far from Hurricane Sandy, and concerns are mounting that with hundreds of thousands still without power in frigid temperatures, the death toll will continue to climb. As the East Coast examines the destruction, comparisons have been made to other catastrophic storms. Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged the Gulf Coast in 2005, killed over 1,800 people and cost nearly $125 billion. Both storms were deadly, destructive and devastating to the thousands who lost their homes and livelihoods. View the infographic below to see how they compare by the numbers. Infographic by Tim Wallace and Jaweed Kaleem.
Editor’s note: This infographic has been updated to to reflect new and more comprehensive data on the number of people displaced or who will potentially be displaced by Hurricane Sandy-related damage, including people in shelters and people who are not in shelters but have had to leave their homes. Superstorm Sandy: How storm morphed from "boring" to killer superstorm. NASA released this animation of imagery from its GOES-13 satellite of Superstorm Sandy from its development in the Caribbean on October 23, 2012, through its eventual weakening to a remnant low pressure area on October 31, 2012. Courtesy NASA.gov. WASHINGTON It was the moment a run-of-the-mill hurricane mutated into a monster named Sandy. Paradoxically, it was the same time Sandy lost much of its wind power, dropping from a hurricane to a tropical storm. It was a Friday night and Sandy had just passed the Bahamas and was being enveloped by an ordinary cold front coming off the Southeast.
It was changing how it got its power, where its highest winds were and even what it looked like. But mostly it was getting bigger. It was that enormity that set off alarms in the people who knew weather, especially those living in the New York area. "It was just this monster coming at us," he said. The question is, how likely is it that there will be more? The result? Sandy wasn't always a big bully. Hurricane Sandy Fast Facts. (CNN) -- Here's a look at what you need to know about Hurricane Sandy. As a hurricane and post-tropical cyclone, Sandy is responsible for 117 deaths in the U.S. and 69 more in Canada and the Caribbean. October 22-November 5, 2012 - Hurricane Sandy, as a hurricane and a post-tropical cyclone, kills at least 117 people in the United States and 69 more in Canada and the Caribbean.
The death toll in the U.S includes 53 in New York state, 34 in New Jersey, 12 in Pennsylvania, six in West Virginia, four in Connecticut, one in Maryland, and seven elsewhere in the U.S. Records:October 29, 2012 - Hurricane hunter aircraft measure Sandy's central pressure at 940 millibars -- 27.76 inches - the lowest barometric reading ever recorded for an Atlantic storm to make landfall north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
October 29, 2012 - The surge level at Battery Park in New York tops 13.88 feet at 9:24 p.m. surpassing the old record of 10.02 feet, set by Hurricane Donna in 1960. Hurricane Sandy. Hurricane Sandy (unofficially known as "Superstorm Sandy") was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, as well as the second-costliest hurricane in United States history. Classified as the eighteenth named storm, tenth hurricane and second major hurricane of the year, Sandy was a Category 3 storm at its peak intensity when it made landfall in Cuba.[1] While it was a Category 2 storm off the coast of the Northeastern United States, the storm became the largest Atlantic hurricane on record (as measured by diameter, with winds spanning 1,100 miles (1,800 km)).[2][3] Estimates as of March 2014 assess damage to have been over $68 billion (2013 USD), a total surpassed only by Hurricane Katrina.[4] At least 286 people were killed along the path of the storm in seven countries.[5] Sandy developed from a tropical wave in the western Caribbean Sea on October 22, quickly strengthened, and was upgraded to Tropical Storm Sandy six hours later.
Storm path.