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More people died from drowning in this storm than during Hurricanes Hugo and Andrew combined. [5] Overall, the storm's surge, winds, and tornadoes damaged or destroyed 18,000 homes. [29] A total of 47 people died in Florida due to this storm. [4] Despite all the rainfall and tornadoes, lots of snow also dropped in the Panhandle regions of Florida.
Five people were killed in Florida by three separate tornadoes spawned by a major derecho with embedded supercells. This derecho was the southern edge of the 1993 Storm of the Century . The derecho an Cuba spawn 7 tornadoes in actual province of Artemisa and Pinar del Rio
In 1993, journalist and author Sebastian Junger planned to write a book about a fishing boat caught in the 1991 Halloween Nor'easter storm. Technically, this storm was an extratropical cyclone . In the course of his research, he spoke with Bob Case , who had been a deputy meteorologist in the Boston office of the National Weather Service at the ...
It's been 10 years since Superstorm Sandy hit New York and New Jersey, killing dozens and destroying hundreds of homes. CBS New York is releasing a documentary looking back at one of the biggest ...
At the Jersey Shore, the main defense mustered against another Superstorm Sandy is unimaginable amounts of sand. Superstorm Sandy 10 years later: Quadrillion buckets of sand, $500M, yet future ...
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The snowfall of 1947 exceeded 2 ft (61 cm) with drifts and snow piles from plowing that reached 12 ft (3.7 m) and for months as temperatures did not rise high enough to melt the snow. The 1993 "Superstorm" manifested as a blizzard in most of the affected areas.
Yeah. This is one of the problems with naming extratropical cyclones. I agree that the name should change to either Superstorm (1993) or Storm of the Century (1993). In fact, if I remember my wikipedia page naming conventions correctly, since more people refer to/know of this storm as "Storm of the Century", it should be the article's name.