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The flares and CMEs of the August 1972 solar storms were similar to the Carrington event in size and magnitude; however, unlike the 1859 storms, they did not cause an extreme geomagnetic storm. The March 1989 geomagnetic storm knocked out power across large sections of Quebec , while the 2003 Halloween solar storms registered the most powerful ...
Known as the Great Storm of 1703, and described by Defoe as "The Greatest, the Longest in Duration, the widest in Extent, of all the Tempests and Storms that History gives any Account of since the Beginning of Time." [1] The book was published by John Nutt in mid-1704. [1] It was not a best seller, and a planned sequel never materialised. [1]
The hurricane caused great loss of life, with a death toll of between 6,000 and 12,000 people; [31] the number most cited in official reports is 8,000, [26] [43] giving the storm the third-highest number of deaths of all Atlantic hurricanes, after the Great Hurricane of 1780 and Hurricane Mitch in 1998. [44]
The storm attained a very low barometric pressure of 918–922 hPa (27.1–27.2 inHg) [2] [a] and tracked eastwards to the north of Ireland, with gusts of over 100 knots (185 km/h; 115 mph) before moving across the north of England to continental Europe, where it eventually dissipated. At the time, it was the worst storm to hit Ireland for 300 ...
Four different hurricanes, one in June and three in October, caused at least 1,000 deaths each; [1] [2] this event has never been repeated, and only in the 1893 and 2005 seasons were there two such hurricanes. [3] The season also had the deadliest Atlantic hurricane of all time, the Great Hurricane of 1780. Only one of the known storms was not ...
The 1848 Tampa Bay hurricane (also known as the Great Gale of 1848) was the strongest known hurricane to impact the Tampa Bay area of the U.S. state of Florida.Along with the 1921 Tampa Bay hurricane and Hurricane Milton in 2024, it is one of only three major hurricanes to make landfall along Central Florida's west coast since Florida became a United States territory in 1821.
[12] [13] A rumor that she used a rope to keep the children together during the blinding storm is widely circulated, but one of the children claimed it was not true. That year, "Song of the Great Blizzard: Thirteen Were Saved" or "Nebraska's Fearless Maid", [14] was written and recorded in her honor by William Vincent and published by Lyon & Healy.
The Great storm of 1703 was a destructive extratropical cyclone that struck central and southern England on 26 November 1703. High winds caused 2,000 chimney stacks to collapse in London and damaged the New Forest , which lost 4,000 oaks.