The Okeechobee Hurricane still stands today after all this time as one of the deadliest hurricanes in the history of the Atlantic basin. Most of the damage from that storm was where the population had centered; in Dade and Broward counties, claiming the lives of 2500...but in it’s entirety, but killed over 4,000 people from its path though the Caribbean.  

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Sally was called by NOAA “an erratic hurricane, both in its track and intensity”, that made landfall along the coast of Alabama at category 2 intensity. There was over 30 inches of rain in Pensacola from this deluge and that equated to what said to have been four months of rain in a tiny window of only four hours.

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In 1957, the Soviets shocked the United States by becoming the first nation to launch a satellite into orbit around the earth when they successfully put Sputnik into orbit.  Then, on September 14 of 1959, a Soviet rocket crashed into the moon’s surface, becoming the first man-made object sent from earth to reach the lunar surface.

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At its time, Ike was the second-costliest in United States history. Ike was blamed for at least 195 deaths, 113 of whom were in the US. Due to just how massive Ike was, there was clear devastation stretching from coastal Louisiana all the way to Corpus Christi, Texas. Ike would also cause flooding and significant damage along the Mississippi coastline through the Florida Panhandle.

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She was called the SS Central America, known as the Ship of Gold. Today we are recounting the story of when she sank in a hurricane, taking with her 425 of her 578 passengers and crew and 30,000 pounds (14,000 kg) of gold.

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Hawaii’s tourism is driven by eternally active volcanoes and the site of the first ever attack on US soil when Pearl Harbour was bombed by Japan in WW2. This storm happened on the date that would see the only other attack on US soil, when that happened in 2001.

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On August 29th, 2021 New Orleans was battered to a pulp by Hurricane Ida. 16 years prior to that very day, they were drowned by the effects of Katrina. Today , however, is actually THE day when New Orleans would effectively change forever; after Hurricane Betsy, this day in weather history.

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This massive storm is believed to have killed at least 4,000 people in Newfoundland, making it one of the top ten deadliest Atlantic hurricanes, the deadliest hurricane to strike Canada and it was also the first one in Canada’s recorded history.

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Percy Saltzman was already a veteran meteorologist. Likely he had no idea that he would go on to be the first face on Canadian TV when CBC TV inaugurated English language broadcasting in Canada.

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With tennis ball sized hailstones raining down on Calgary, for its time it was the most destructive hail storm in Canadian history. For 30 minutes these large masses of mangled congealed ice rocks hammered down on the city and not only damaged homes & cars, there were destroyed crops and trees that were split open and even killed birds while they were still in flight!

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