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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 1962 storm still ranks as one of the biggest, if not the biggest, to ever hit the Northwest. ... The Columbus Day Storm of 1962. This story from News Tribune archives was originally published ...
The largest storm events have struck the Pacific Northwest every 15 to 30 years according to modern records. Among the strongest were the 1962 Columbus Day storm , which formed from the remnants of Typhoon Frieda/Freda and killed 50 people; the 1993 Inauguration Day windstorm, which killed 6 people; and the 2006 Hanukkah Eve windstorm , which ...
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.
The extratropical remains of Freda would continue east through the Pacific Ocean, making landfall in the Pacific Northwest of Canada & the United States on October 12, 1962. 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 ...
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 ...
Columbus Day storm of 1962; N. North Sea flood of 1962; W. Winter of 1962–1963 in the United Kingdom This page was last edited on 4 July 2023, at 23:01 (UTC). ...
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