On the morning of September 23, 1815, a severe storm struck Long Island and New England. It had been 180 years since the last recorded hurricane had hit the area so the term ‘hurricane’ had fallen out of use and the newspapers referred to the tempest as a “Great Storm” or “Great Gale”. The prior […]
On September 22, 1565, a hurricane struck a French fleet sent to support Fort Caroline in Florida. The survivors were hunted down by the Spanish and slaughtered, ensuring Spanish control of La Florida. Although Spain had laid claim to Florida following the explorations of Juan Ponce de Leon in 1513, in this contentious period of […]
Early on the morning of September 19, 1955, Hurricane Hilda slammed into Tampico, Mexico. The storm, which brought great death and destruction to the city, was the second of a trio of hurricanes to plague the Mexican Gulf coast that year. Hilda began as a tropical depression forming over the Leeward Islands on Sept. 10th […]
On the afternoon of September 15, 1945, a major hurricane made landfall in southern Florida, causing great destruction. The storm roared up the middle of the peninsula, passing over Orlando. An experimental Army radar station located near the city recorded the storm’s progress along this track, while a young Army lieutenant recorded the radar scope […]
On September 15, 1960, Hurricane Ethel became a Category Five hurricane in the Gulf of America, becoming the most northerly hurricane to reach this maximum status on record. Hurricane Ethel formed from a disturbance in the central Gulf just as Hurricane Donna was dying out over the Labrador Sea. As the storm moved northward, it […]
On September 11, 1875, Father Benito Viñes, director of the Meteorological Observatory of the Royal College of Belén in Havana, Cuba, issued his first hurricane forecast. It is very likely the first such hurricane forecast ever publicly issued. The Jesuit priest had been assigned to the Observatory in 1870 and arrived in Cuba by March […]
The article can be found at http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20150912/NEWS/150919818?Title=Busy-hurricane-season-highlights-forecast-challenges.
The article can be accessed at http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2015/09/as_atlantic_hurricane_season_p.html.
On the morning of September 10, 1960, Hurricane Donna came roaring through the Florida Keys as it began its rampage up the east coast of the United States. Four days later it had affected every state along the Eastern Seaboard leaving an astonishing trail of destruction. Donna began as a Cape Verde storm, forming in […]
September’s science meeting consisted of 4 presentations: Evan Forde – What’s up with TCs in proximity to SALs 1987-2008 Robert Rogers – Observations of the asymmetric structure and intensity evolution of Hurricane Edouard (2014). Part I: Kinematic structure and distribution of deep convection Rochelle Worsnop (University of Colorado-Boulder) – Power spectrum and spatial coherence of […]
