Perfect Storm question
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Perfect Storm question
Has there ever been another storm like it? Or even remotely like it? I heard things about Hurricane Karl in 1980 but I don't think it was anything like the Perfect Storm.
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Re: Perfect Storm question
Category 5 wrote:Has there ever been another storm like it? Or even remotely like it? I heard things about Hurricane Karl in 1980 but I don't think it was anything like the Perfect Storm.
The March 12-15, 1993 "Storm of the Century" was certainly comparable if not stronger. Linda Greenlaw, one of the only female captains of a swordfishing boat, recalls the Perfect Strom in her book "The Hungry Ocean". She was friends with the captain of the Andrea Gail, one of the boats that was lost in the storm. Linda has said that the March 12-15 Storm of the Century produced higher waves and stronger winds than the Perfect Storm.
Storm of the Century Web Site (note: you may have to copy/paste that link below into your browsser window):
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/arch/cases/930312/hist.rxml
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Yes, in November (around Thanksgiving of) 1898. It was called The Portland Gale. It was created by the combination of an extratropical low from the Great Lakes and a Tropical or Subtropical Low from the GOM, that phased into a massive hybrid bomb off the Carolinas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Gale
http://www.barnstablepatriot.com/sscape/portland.html
http://www.hazegray.org/features/1898gale/
* PS I'm actually in the process of helping to prepare a paper on this unusually event, and am considering producing a comprehensive website about it once I'm finished based upon our research.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Gale
http://www.barnstablepatriot.com/sscape/portland.html
http://www.hazegray.org/features/1898gale/
* PS I'm actually in the process of helping to prepare a paper on this unusually event, and am considering producing a comprehensive website about it once I'm finished based upon our research.
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