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The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, historically referred to as the Big Blow, [3] [a] the Freshwater Fury and the White Hurricane, was a blizzard with hurricane-force winds that devastated the Great Lakes Basin in the Midwestern United States and Southwestern Ontario, Canada, between November 7 and 10, 1913.
The cold front that merged with Hurricane Sandy at the end of October 2012 fueled Sandy's transition into a powerful extratropical cyclone, which brought strong winds and high waves across the Great Lakes. Lake Michigan recorded wave heights of 20 to 22 feet and wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph.
1900 Galveston hurricane: United States ... Great Lakes Storm of 1913: ... List of disasters in Croatia by death toll; List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland ...
The Galveston Hurricane. Year: 1900. Death Toll: 6,000–12,000. Financial Impact: Estimated $30 million at the time ... It continued its rampage all the way to the Great Lakes region.
Similar to the 1996 Lake Huron cyclone, the 1941 hurricane tracked over the Great Lakes in September, when the lakes are at their warmest. [2] Hurricane Hazel entered the Great Lakes region as an extratropical storm just west of Toronto. The storm had lost most of its intensity after tracking over 600 miles (970 km) inland.
1926 Nova Scotia hurricane: Hurricane Nova Scotia Approximate number, most deaths occurred at sea. 54 2018 2018 Eastern Canada heat wave: Heat wave Eastern Canada [26] 53 1943 German submarine U-174: Shipwreck Sank southwest of Newfoundland: No survivors [27] 53 1942 German submarine U-520: Shipwreck Sank east of Newfoundland: No survivors [28 ...
Damage and death figures are for the U.S. only. Storm caused an additional 67 deaths and ~US$7 billion in damage across the Caribbean. 54 2018 Hurricane Florence: Tropical cyclone Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina: $24,230,000,000 Category 4 hurricane that caused major damage and 54 recorded fatalities in the US; 24 direct and 30 ...
The death happened Nov. 12 when a gravel truck “hauling to aid in storm clean up turned over,” says a release. Helene, a Category 4 hurricane when it made landfall in Florida on Sept. 26, is ...