History
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Many of you may remember the iconic image of the Six Flags roller coaster sitting in a pool of water caused by the tremendous flooding that occurred west of Atlanta on September 19-21, 2009. After a week of rainy conditions, a deluge fell overnight on September 20-21, bringing 15 inches or more to a few…
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You might remember the chaos caused by Hurricane Floyd traveling up the East Coast. From the Facebook page for “This Day in Weather History”: September 12th, 1999 – Hurricane Floyd, a Category 4 storm with top winds of 145 mph, was making residents along the U.S. East Coast very nervous as it steamed steadily westward.…
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Fifteen years ago a tragedy unfolded in clear skies over New York City and Washington DC. What you might not remember is that Hurricane Erin was to the east of the Northwest on that date. If it had followed a different path, history might have been quite different. You can read about the impacts of…
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Eleven years ago, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast. One of the hardest hit areas was the Mississippi Coast, where Stennis Air Force Base is located. Many NOAA personnel were located there and suffered severe personal losses from the direct hit. Last year they put together a story site which contains information about…
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Harrison Sincavage posted an article at iWeatherNet today about the shocking (to me and other meteorologist friends) statement that the National Hurricane Center put out about the expected impacts of Hurricane Katrina, which was approaching maximum storm intensity in the Gulf of Mexico on this date eleven years ago today. If you’ve never read the warning,…
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The eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia is one of the largest eruptions in recorded history. It is said that the shock wave from the explosive blast went around the earth three times. Most of the people killed by the eruption, over 36,000 people, were killed by the great tsunami that swept through the Indonesian archipelago.…
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The Capital Weather Gang has a great article this week on the impacts of the “Year without a Summer”, which was caused by the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia in 1815. After a year the sulfuric acid droplets in the stratosphere had spread out enough to seriously decrease the sunlight and incoming solar energy,…
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