Portal:Weather/On this day list/October
October 1
[edit]1986: Hurricane Paine reached peak intensity just off the coast of Cabo San Lucas, with sustained winds of 100 miles per hour (160 km/h).
October 2
[edit]1858: A hurricane hit San Diego, California, the only known hurricane ever to strike the Pacific coast of the United States.
October 3
[edit]2010: The storm system that would eventually become Hurricane Otto began producing torrential rains in the northeastern Caribbean Sea, eventually bringing more than 20 inches (51 cm) of rain to the US and British Virgin Islands.
October 4
[edit]2013: An intense storm system dropped up to 58 inches (150 cm) of snow in western South Dakota, and spawned several significant tornadoes elsewhere in the central United States.
October 5
[edit]1951: Hurricane How sunk the ship Southern Isle off the coast of the Eastern United States, killing 17 crew.
October 6
[edit]1981: NLM CityHopper Flight 431, a short-range passenger flight, flew into a tornado and broke apart near Moerdijk, Netherlands. All 17 on board were killed.
October 7
[edit]1737: A severe cyclone killed 3,000 people in Calcutta, India.
October 8
[edit]1881: The deadliest typhoon in history destroyed the port city of Haiphong, Vietnam (then Dai Nam), killing around 300,000 people.
October 9
[edit]1997: Hurricane Pauline, the costliest hurricane ever recorded in the eastern Pacific Ocean, made landfall near Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca.
October 10
[edit]1817: C. H. D. Buys Ballot, one of the founding fathers of meteorology, was born in Kloetinge, Netherlands.
October 11
[edit]1846: A major hurricane made landfall near Havana, Cuba, killing hundreds of people.
October 12
[edit]1962: The Columbus Day Storm brought damaging winds of more than 100 mph (160 km/h) to a large area of the Pacific Northwest.
October 13
[edit]1998: Typhoon Zeb reached peak intensity east of the Philippines, with maximum sustained winds of 180 miles per hour (290 km/h). The storm would make landfall near Ilagan the next day, killing more than 100 people.
October 14
[edit]1964: Hurricane Isbell made landfall near Everglades City, Florida, causing heavy rain and several tornadoes, as well as killing seven people.
October 15
[edit]1870: The Army Signal Service established the first federal weather office in the Chicago area, which would eventually become the National Weather Service forecast office for Chicago.
October 16
[edit]1975: GOES-1, the first Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite was launched to observe cloud patterns, surface temperatures, and other atmospheric trends best viewed from space.
October 17
[edit]1998: Heavy rainfall, which would eventually cause severe flooding, began in central Texas, resulting in almost $1 billion (USD) in damage.
October 18
[edit]2009: Hurricane Rick, the third strongest Pacific hurricane on record, reached peak intensity with sustained winds of 180 miles per hour (290 km/h).
October 19
[edit]1989: Typhoon Elsie struck Luzon, Philippines, as a category 5 storm, killing 47 people.
October 20
[edit]2004: Typhoon Tokage made landfall on southern Japan, killing 95 people.
October 21
[edit]1998: Typhoon Babs struck the Philippines just days after the destructive landfall of Typhoon Zeb, killing more than 300 people.
October 22
[edit]1986: Hurricane Roslyn made landfall in Mazatlán, Mexico, causing only minor damage.
October 23
[edit]1971: Typhoon Hester made landfall near Huế, South Vietnam (now Vietnam), killing more than 100 people.
October 24
[edit]2008: An unusual tropical cyclone made landfall in Yemen, causing historic floods which resulted in nearly $1 billion in damage and killed 180 people.
October 25
[edit]1997: An unseasonably early winter storm hit the Midwestern United States, bringing record cold and snow to Nebraska.
October 26
[edit]2010: An extratropical storm system brought a major tornado outbreak to the Central and Southeastern United States.
October 27
[edit]1959: An unnamed hurricane, the deadliest and one of the strongest ever to make landfall in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, struck Mexico near Manzanillo, Colima, killing around 1800 people.
October 28
[edit]1996: The extratropical remnants of Hurricane Lili struck Great Britain, causing ₤150 million in damage and killing two people.
October 29
[edit]2011: An unseasonably severe snowstorm caused dozens of deaths and record power outages in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states.
October 30
[edit]2010: Hurricane Tomas passed through the Windward Islands, killing 14 people. This was the latest on record that a hurricane has affected the area.
October 31
[edit]1961: Hurricane Hattie, a strong Category 4 Atlantic hurricane, struck Belize City, Belize (then British Honduras), killing more than 300 people.