Portal:Weather/On this day list/November

November 1: Start of the Australian region and South Pacific cyclone seasons

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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

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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

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2007: The extratropical remnants of Hurricane Noel struck Atlantic Canada and eastern New England, bringing hurricane-force winds to many coastal areas, as well as snow in Maine and parts of Canada.

November 4

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1935: The Yankee Hurricane, so-called because of its unusual path traveling from the northeast, made landfall near Miami Beach, Florida, killing 19 people in Florida and The Bahamas.

November 5

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2009: Hurricane Ida made landfall in Nicaragua, causing major damage that left 40,000 people homeless.

November 6

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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

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2013: Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest typhoon to make landfall anywhere in recorded history (tied with 2016's Typhoon Meranti), struck the island of Samar in the Philippines. More than 6,000 people were killed by the storm, mostly in Eastern Samar.

November 8

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2014: The strongest storm ever recorded in the Bering Sea reached peak intensity.

November 9

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2005: An unusually late-season tornado struck the city of Hamilton, Ontario.

November 10

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1967: The ESSA-6 weather satellite was launched.

November 11

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2009: Cyclone Phyan made landfall in the state of Maharashtra, India, causing very heavy rain that lead to the deaths of 20 people.

November 12

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1909: A hurricane made landfall in northwestern Haiti, killing hundreds.

November 13

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1984: Hurricane Klaus dissipated in the northern Atlantic Ocean.

November 14

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1969: The Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 12 mission into space was struck by lightning, nearly causing a mission abort.

1989: Dozens were killed in a severe weather outbreak across the eastern half of North America, mainly in the Southeastern and Northeastern United States.

November 16

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2020: Hurricane Iota, the 31st and final tropical cyclone of the record-breaking 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, made landfall in Nicaragua with maximum sustained winds of 145 miles per hour (230 km/h).

November 17

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2017: Cyclone Numa became a subtropical cyclone in an unusual location: the western Mediterranean Sea.

November 18

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2014: A major cold snap through much of the US reached its peak, with some temperatures reaching 45 degrees below normal.

November 19

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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

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1996: Hurricane Marco, the longest-lived tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean in November, reached its peak intensity while meandering over the Caribbean Sea.

November 21

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1992: Cyclone Forrest, which had prompted unprecedented evacuations in Bangladesh before veering eastward, made landfall in northwestern Myanmar causing relatively minor damage.

November 22

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2020: Cyclone Gati, the strongest tropical cyclone on record to strike Somalia, made landfall near Hafun, killing 9 people.

November 23

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1984: An unusually strong early-season Nor'easter reached its peak intensity off the coast of Florida.

November 24

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1703: An intense European windstorm began to affect southern England and the English Channel. This storm or series of storms would last for more than a week, killing as many as 15,000 at sea.

November 25

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2003: Typhoon Lupit passed close to Ulithi, FSM, completely inundating the atoll.

November 26

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2009: Typhoon Nida, one of the most powerful typhoons of the decade, reached peak intensity over the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with maximum sustained winds of 285 kilometres per hour (180 mph).

November 27

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1701: Anders Celsius, inventor of the Celsius temperature scale used in most countries, was born in Uppsala, Sweden.

November 28

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1905: The Mataafa Storm struck the North American Great Lakes, sinking or damaging 29 ships and killing 36 people.

November 29

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2001: Cyclone Trina formed near the Cook Islands, eventually causing severe flooding on the island of Mangaia after 8 days of heavy rain.

1925: A late-season tropical storm made landfall just south of Tampa, Florida, eventually killing dozens of people, mostly due to sinking ships.