Beaten with fear and sound and wet and chill, they crawled to the hurricane deck and looked out haggardly at a world of water that reached clear to the surrounding hills.

Only a few more than 10,000 boats had been registered with the Division of Harbors and Rivers at the end of the 1960 boating season, but many had been taken out of the water early when the threat of a hurricane brought the season to an early close.

* 1915 – A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at.

Hurricanes occasionally hit the islands, with the hurricane season running from June to November.

Hurricanes occasionally hit the islands, with the hurricane season running from June to November.

The 1955 Atlantic hurricane season shows Hurricane Ione passing nearby between the 14th and 18th of that month, with Bermuda being affected by winds of almost gale force.

Wright observed how well trees with taproots withstood hurricane force winds.

El Niño is credited with suppressing hurricanes and made the 2009 hurricane season the least active in twelve years.

This massive hurricane not only battered the Honduran coastline, but engulfed nearly the entire country with its powerful winds and torrential downpours.

On the other hand, hurricane formation was greatly diminished from 1968 to 1994, which for some reason coincides with the great Sahel drought.

The ship sank in a hurricane and the project foundered with it.

* 1950 – The Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950, otherwise known at the time as the " Storm of the Century ", strikes New England with hurricane force winds resulting in massive forest blow-downs and storm surge damage along the Northeast coast including New York City.

* 2005 – Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.

* 2005 – Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.

* SS Republic of 1853, a ship lost in an 1865 hurricane with a large cargo of gold coins

The dry season spans from November to May while the wet season coincides with the Atlantic hurricane season from June to November.

To coincide with the Atlantic ocean hurricane season, " Spindrift " was released as the official second radio single on June 1, 2007, whereas " The Larger Bowl ( A Pantoum )" saw single status on June 25, 2007.

More recently, in 1980 and 1987, hurricanes devastated banana and coconut plantations ; 1998 and 1999 also saw very active hurricane seasons, with Hurricane Lenny in 1999 causing extensive damage to the west coast of the island.

The islands are subject to tropical storms and hurricanes, with the hurricane season running from June to November.

** Hurricane Opal makes landfall at Pensacola Beach, Florida as a Category 3 hurricane with winds.

* September 2 – Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: The strongest hurricane ever to strike the United States landfalls in the Upper Florida Keys as a Category 5 storm with 185 mph winds, killing 423.

Rodney, who was ill, sailed for Europe with the rest of his fleet in order to recover, refit his fleet, and to avoid the Atlantic hurricane season.

* September 19 – Just weeks after arrival at Pensacola, the Spanish missionary colony is decimated by a hurricane that kills hundreds, sinks five ships, with a galleon, and grounds a caravel ; the 1, 000 survivors divide to relocate / resupply the settlement, but suffer famine & attacks, and abandon the effort in 1561.

A large glass bowl with a large flat bottom and tall mostly vertical curved sides is called a hurricane.

Following a hurricane and a renewed outbreak of disease, the colony collapsed, with the English departing for the nearby French colony on Sainte-Croix, the Danes fleeing to Saint Christopher and home, and the Dutch assisting their countrymen on Ter Tholen in stealing everything of value, particularly the remaining Danish guns and ammunition.

In 1835 the steamer " Tigris " of the English Euphrates expedition went down in a hurricane just above Anah, near where Julian's force had suffered from a similar storm.

Jamaica lies in the Atlantic hurricane belt ; as a result, the island sometimes experiences significant storm damage.

The last hurricane was category-one Hurricane Earl in September 2010, and the last tropical storm was Tropical Storm Noel in 2007 ( downgraded from Hurricane Noel by the time the storm reached Nova Scotia ).

* 1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.

Other phenomena unrelated to tides but using the word tide are rip tide, storm tide, hurricane tide, and black or red tides.

These techniques are superficially comparable to weather models that show hurricane storm tracks ; each of several algorithms independently models a complex system ( the weather, in this case ) somewhat differently from each of its sister weather algorithms, and the average of all the algorithms ' output is taken to be the most likely " storm track ".

The storm is the first hurricane to cause $ 1 billion in unadjusted damages, giving it the nickname " Billion Dollar Betsy ".

** The third hurricane of the season, the first recorded example of a storm crossing from the Eastern Pacific basin into the Atlantic basin, occurred in Oaxaca.

The loss may be widespread due to a natural disaster like an ice storm or hurricane, or local by being cut underground in construction or damaged in a thunderstorm or car accident.

*** Hurricane Irene ( 1981 ), part of the 1981 Atlantic hurricane season, Category 3 hurricane ; moved across the Atlantic both ways, eventually hitting France as an extratropical storm

Sometimes powerful windstorms form if the pressure falls rapidly, traveling along the Gulf Stream at great speed, resembling a hurricane, and finally crashing in this bay with their maximum power, such as the Klaus storm.

A civil defense siren ( also referred to as an air raid, civil defence, tornado, tsunami, fire, flood, weather, time, curfew, earthquake, storm, police, emergency, hurricane, or other outdoor warning siren / whistle / horn / alarm ) is a mechanical or electronic device ( modern-day sirens are electrically powered whether they are electronic or electro-mechanical ) for generating sound to provide warning of approaching danger and sometimes to indicate when the danger has passed.

Following the storm, a long, high seawall was constructed to protect the city from floods and hurricane storm surge.

Cyclone, tropical cyclone, hurricane, and typhoon are different names for the same phenomenon a cyclonic storm system that forms over the oceans.

The strongest effect on Jacksonville was from Hurricane Dora in 1964, the only recorded storm to hit the First Coast with sustained hurricane force winds.

However, a hurricane and the accompanying storm surge wiped out the entire town.

Although NOAA currently sends images to South America, the frequency drops from 30-minutes to 3 hours whenever a storm occurs in North America, which is roughly 40 % of the time during the hurricane season.

With a large proportion of the U. S. population living near our sea and lake shores, and an estimated 75 % of U. S. vacations being spent at the beach, there has been Federal interest — and a Corps of Engineers mission — in protecting these areas from hurricane and coastal storm damage.

This storm event was similar in nature to a hurricane.