Portal:Weather/On this day list/November
November 1: Start of the Australian region and South Pacific cyclone seasons
[edit]1991: A strong storm system, better known as The Perfect Storm became a hurricane while lashing New England and Atlantic Canada with 30-foot (10-meter) waves and winds gusting above 60 mph (100 km/h).
November 2
[edit]1997: Typhoon Keith passed through the Northern Mariana Islands with maximum sustained winds of 160 miles per hour (260 km/h), but did not directly hit any islands, and caused no deaths.
November 3
[edit]2015: Cyclone Chapala, the strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Gulf of Aden, made landfall in mainland Yemen, killing at least 9 people.
November 4
[edit]1993: China Airlines Flight 605 overran the runway at Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong and crashed into Victoria Harbour while attempting to land during Tropical Storm Ira. There were no major injuries, and all passengers and crew were able to escape safely before the plane sank.
November 5
[edit]1991: Tropical Storm Thelma caused major flooding in the Philippines, killing more than 5000 people.
November 6
[edit]2001: An extratropical storm system, formed partially from the remnants of two hurricanes, struck Atlantic Canada with winds as high as 96 miles per hour (154 km/h).
November 7
[edit]2006: Japan's deadliest tornado since World War II destroyed several buildings and killed 9 people in Saroma, Hokkaido.
November 8
[edit]2008: Hurricane Paloma, the second-strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean in November, reached peak intensity near the Cayman Islands, with maximum sustained winds of 125 knots (145 mph; 230 km/h).
November 9
[edit]1913: The deadliest storm ever to hit the Great Lakes destroyed 19 ships and killed 250 people.
November 10
[edit]1997: Hurricane Rick made landfall in southern Mexico, the second-latest Pacific hurricane ever to do so.
November 11
[edit]1940: The Armistice Day Blizzard dumped two or more feet (0.6 meters) of snow on the United States' Midwest, killing 154 people.
November 12
[edit]1961: Hurricane Tara struck the Mexican state of Guerrero, killing as many as 500 people.
November 13
[edit]1972: A major extratropical cyclone known as Cyclone Quimburga struck northern and central Europe, causing severe damage and wind gusts as high as 245 kilometres per hour (152 mph).
November 14
[edit]2013: Tropical Storm Podul made landfall in southern Vietnam, bringing up to 973 millimetres (38.3 in) of rain to the Quảng Ngãi Province, and causing major flooding that killed 42 people.
November 15: Start of the South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
[edit]1974: The NOAA-4 weather satellite was launched.
November 16
[edit]2007: Cyclone Guba reached peak intensity over the Coral Sea. Flooding from the storm's rainbands eventually killed more than 140 people in Papua New Guinea.
November 17
[edit]1999: Hurricane Lenny made landfall on Saint Croix. It was an unusual storm in many ways, striking the island as the strongest Atlantic hurricane on record for the month of November, while moving in an unprecedented west-to-east direction through the Caribbean.
November 18
[edit]2017: The NOAA-20 weather satellite was launched.
November 19
[edit]1912: Robert Simpson, former director of the National Hurricane Center and co-inventor of the Saffir–Simpson scale of hurricane intensity, was born in Corpus Christi, Texas.
November 20
[edit]2007: Cyclone Guba reached peak intensity as it drifted near Papua New Guinea, causing flooding which would kill 149 people.
November 21
[edit]1971: Tropical Storm Laura made landfall in Belize, causing only minor damage.
November 22
[edit]2016: Hurricane Otto became the latest-forming major (Category 3 or higher) Atlantic hurricane on record.
November 23
[edit]1992: Typhoon Gay made landfall on the island of Guam. Due to the storm's strong winds and relative lack of rain, salt water that sprayed across the island caused extensive damage to vegetation.
November 24
[edit]1969: Hurricane Martha made landfall in the Veraguas Province of Panama, making it the only known tropical cyclone to directly hit the country.
November 25
[edit]1950: The Great Appalachian Storm of 1950 brought up to 57 inches (145 cm) of snow to areas in and near the Appalachian Mountains.
November 26
[edit]1997: Cyclone Osea reached peak intensity while passing through French Polynesia, destroying most buildings and infrastructure on Maupiti.
November 27
[edit]2014: A major hailstorm caused severe damage and injured 39 people in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
November 28
[edit]1939: A smog event struck St. Louis, Missouri. The smog was so thick that cars needed headlights to drive during mid-day.
November 29
[edit]1992: A series of unusually powerful storms produced flash flooding, large hailstones, and two strong tornadoes in southeastern Queensland, Australia.
November 30: End of the East Pacific, Central Pacific and Atlantic hurricane seasons
[edit]1960: Typhoon Ophelia passed over Ulithi atoll in the Caroline Islands, destroying most structures on the island and sparking great societal change among the island's native population.