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  • NCDC: Satellite Events Art Gallery: Cyclones

    The Perfect Storm Late October and November are months with weather in rapid transition in the eastern U.S. To the west, large fresh cold air masses from Canada begin to envelope the Midwest on a regular basis. To the east, the Atlantic Ocean is slower to lose its stored summer heat than... more

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  • Rated by A-Doode on Mar 10 2009, 7:53am

    What's so perfect about storms anyway?

  • Rated by randomcarp on May 05 2005, 12:38pm

    The real story behind the bizzare storm portrayed in "The Perfect Storm". Includes information about the evolution of the storm, satellite pictures, damage reports, information about satellite tracking and the Andrea Gail, and why a hurricane at the center of the massive storm remained unnamed.

  • Rated by coastofnowhere on Apr 13 2005, 8:46pm

    The Perfect Storm Late October and November are months with weather in rapid transition in the eastern U.S. To the west, large fresh cold air masses from Canada begin to envelope the Midwest on a regular basis. To the east, the Atlantic Ocean is slower to lose its stored summer heat than the continent, and hurricanes sometimes form over the warm waters. The contrast between two very dissimilar air masses often results in massive storms just offshore of North America. These tempests, called "Nor'easters" in the Atlantic states, have sunk many ocean vessels, and this storm lived up to the reputation of being severe. On October 28, 1991, a extratropical cyclone developed along a cold front which had moved off the Northeast coast of the U.S. By 1800 UTC, this low was located a few hundred miles east of the coast of Nova Scotia. With strong upper air support, the low rapidly deepened and became the dominant weather feature in the Western Atlantic. Hurricane Grace, which had formed on October 27 from a pre-existing subtropical storm and was initially moving northwestward, made a hairpin turn to the east in response to the strong, westerly deep-layer mean flow on the southern flank of the developing extratropical low. Grace was a large system and it was already generating large swells ranging in size from about 15 feet offshore of North Carolina to about 10 feet near the Florida coastline. Click here to read more about The Perfect Storm!