Labor Day weekend.....
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Labor Day weekend.....
This is traditionally a hot time for a TS or hurricane to be threatening somewhere. But with all the early activity this year, does anyone think Labor Day weekend will carry on the tradition in 2005?
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dixiebreeze wrote:Excuse the double post -- don't know what happened
No problem.I haved been thru that sometimes.
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Here are some:
Labor Day weekend hurricanes
By Jack Williams, USATODAY.com
If a hurricane is going to ruin a holiday weekend, the long Labor Day weekend is the one that's most likely to be affected.
The Fourth of July is the only other major U.S. holiday during the hurricane season, but hurricanes are much more likely at the end of August and the beginning of September than in early July.
The following hurricanes have hit or threatened the USA over the Labor Day weekend beginning in 1935:
1935: The strongest hurricane on record to strike the United States hit the Florida Keys with winds close to 200 mph on Labor Day 1935. The unnamed storm killed 423 people, including 259 World War I veterans who were living in camps while building the highway to Key West.
More on the 1935 Labor Day hurricane
1948: An unnamed hurricane came ashore south of New Orleans overnight Sunday into Labor Day. Moisant International Airport in New Orleans observed 90 mph gusts and air pressure at the Huey Long Bridge in New Orleans fell to 29.21 inches of mercury. Heavy damage was done to oil rigs and other equipment in the Gulf of Mexico.
NWS: Louisiana hurricanes 1901 - 1948
1952: Hurricane Able hit near Beaufort, S.C., overnight Saturday into Sunday with 90 mph winds and heavy rain that fell over eastern South Carolina. By Labor Day it was a weakening tropical storm inland near the North Carolina-Virginia border racing to the northeast. The storm was blamed for two deaths and $3 million (1952 dollars) in damage.
1979: After sweeping across the Caribbean Sea with 150 mph winds that killed more than 1,000 people on Dominica and in the Dominican Republic, Hurricane David threatened Florida at the beginning of the Labor Day weekend, forcing evacuations along the Florida coast. David struck a glancing blow to Florida, just north of the Gold Coast, tore across Cape Canaveral and back out to sea. It came ashore near Savannah, Ga., on Tuesday and then chewed its way up the East Coast, downing trees and power lines well into New England.
More on Hurricane David
1985: Hurricane Elena ruined the Labor Day weekend for most of Florida's Gulf Coast, without ever actually coming ashore in Florida. Elena forced the evacuation of nearly one million people from low-lying coastal areas from Tampa to New Orleans. At the time, it was the largest peacetime evacuation in U.S. history. After hovering off the West Florida coast for three days, Elena finally made landfall near Biloxi, Mississippi on Sept, 2 Labor Day, as a Category 3 hurricane. Estimates of the total economic loss from Elena were near $1.3 billion.
St. Petersburg Times: Hurricane Elena, 1985
1996: The most recent hurricane to threaten the USA over the Labor Day weekend was Hurricane Edouard in 1996. After threatening the mid-Atlantic states and New England from Friday through Sunday, forcing many beach-front businesses to close on what is usually one of their busiest weekends of the year, Edouard turned away. It lashed Nantucket Island, Mass., with gusty winds — at least one gust up to 90 mph — and sent rain and wind over the mainland. The National Hurricane Center issued watches and warnings from Cape Lookout, N.C., north across Cape Cod, Mass. A hurricane warning was issued for parts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts on Sunday, Sept. 1.
More on Hurricane Edouard
Labor Day weekend hurricanes
By Jack Williams, USATODAY.com
If a hurricane is going to ruin a holiday weekend, the long Labor Day weekend is the one that's most likely to be affected.
The Fourth of July is the only other major U.S. holiday during the hurricane season, but hurricanes are much more likely at the end of August and the beginning of September than in early July.
The following hurricanes have hit or threatened the USA over the Labor Day weekend beginning in 1935:
1935: The strongest hurricane on record to strike the United States hit the Florida Keys with winds close to 200 mph on Labor Day 1935. The unnamed storm killed 423 people, including 259 World War I veterans who were living in camps while building the highway to Key West.
More on the 1935 Labor Day hurricane
1948: An unnamed hurricane came ashore south of New Orleans overnight Sunday into Labor Day. Moisant International Airport in New Orleans observed 90 mph gusts and air pressure at the Huey Long Bridge in New Orleans fell to 29.21 inches of mercury. Heavy damage was done to oil rigs and other equipment in the Gulf of Mexico.
NWS: Louisiana hurricanes 1901 - 1948
1952: Hurricane Able hit near Beaufort, S.C., overnight Saturday into Sunday with 90 mph winds and heavy rain that fell over eastern South Carolina. By Labor Day it was a weakening tropical storm inland near the North Carolina-Virginia border racing to the northeast. The storm was blamed for two deaths and $3 million (1952 dollars) in damage.
1979: After sweeping across the Caribbean Sea with 150 mph winds that killed more than 1,000 people on Dominica and in the Dominican Republic, Hurricane David threatened Florida at the beginning of the Labor Day weekend, forcing evacuations along the Florida coast. David struck a glancing blow to Florida, just north of the Gold Coast, tore across Cape Canaveral and back out to sea. It came ashore near Savannah, Ga., on Tuesday and then chewed its way up the East Coast, downing trees and power lines well into New England.
More on Hurricane David
1985: Hurricane Elena ruined the Labor Day weekend for most of Florida's Gulf Coast, without ever actually coming ashore in Florida. Elena forced the evacuation of nearly one million people from low-lying coastal areas from Tampa to New Orleans. At the time, it was the largest peacetime evacuation in U.S. history. After hovering off the West Florida coast for three days, Elena finally made landfall near Biloxi, Mississippi on Sept, 2 Labor Day, as a Category 3 hurricane. Estimates of the total economic loss from Elena were near $1.3 billion.
St. Petersburg Times: Hurricane Elena, 1985
1996: The most recent hurricane to threaten the USA over the Labor Day weekend was Hurricane Edouard in 1996. After threatening the mid-Atlantic states and New England from Friday through Sunday, forcing many beach-front businesses to close on what is usually one of their busiest weekends of the year, Edouard turned away. It lashed Nantucket Island, Mass., with gusty winds — at least one gust up to 90 mph — and sent rain and wind over the mainland. The National Hurricane Center issued watches and warnings from Cape Lookout, N.C., north across Cape Cod, Mass. A hurricane warning was issued for parts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts on Sunday, Sept. 1.
More on Hurricane Edouard
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