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The Columbus Day storm of 1962 (also known as the big blow of 1962, [2] and originally in Canada as Typhoon Freda) was a Pacific Northwest windstorm that struck the West Coast of Canada and the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States on October 12, 1962.
The Columbus Day Storm was a monster the size of a coastline. Today, meteorologists call it the most severe nontropical storm in the history of the lower 48 states. It blew down 15 billion board ...
1962: Columbus Day Storm began life as tropical storm Typhoon Frieda/Freda. 1979: February 13 windstorm leads to the catastrophic failure of the Hood Canal Bridge. 1981: Friday the 13th Windstorms, November 13–15 [6] 1990: November 22–24, Mercer Island bridge sinking Washington state [7] 1993: Inauguration Day windstorm, January 20.
This same storm was named the Columbus Day Storm [2] in the United States, where it caused $235 million in damage and the deaths of 46 people. In the early hours of October 13 the storm made landfall in British Columbia, Canada with sustained wind speeds of 90 km/h (56 mph) with gusts to 145 km/h (90 mph), causing $750 million in damage and the ...
Typhoon Freda (1962) (T6223, 72W) – a typhoon which formed and remained in the open ocean but later struck the west coast of Canada and the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States as a potent extratropical cyclone, and became known as the Columbus Day Storm of 1962.
Columbus Day storm of 1962; H. Hurricane Alma (1962) Hurricane Daisy (1962) K. Typhoon Karen This page was last edited on 2 May 2020, at 02:33 (UTC). Text is ...
Sure, the center of Hurricane Helene didn’t hit Columbus when it blew into Georgia and veered eastward, but the storm still made local weather history.
The 1962 Pacific hurricane season was a moderately active Pacific hurricane season that included two hurricane landfalls. The 1962 Pacific hurricane season officially started on May 15, 1962 in the eastern Pacific and June 1, 1962 in the Central Pacific Hurricane Center 's area of responsibility and lasted until November 30, 1962 in both regions.