what is perfect storm and what happend In the 1991 halloween Nor'easter?

Answer 1

not sure what happened where you are but if that's the Halloween Blizzard I remember -- we got 3 feet of snow most due to Lake effect snow -- will google some junk -- 1991 Halloween Nor'easter -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Halloween_Nor'easter - 42k - Cached - Similar pages

1991 Atlantic hurricane season -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Atlantic_hurricane_season - 77k - Cached - Similar pages

The Perfect Storm - October 1991
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/satellite/satelliteseye/cyclones/pfctstorm91/pfctstorm.html

Answer 2

They made a good movie about it. I stayed at a home on Cape Ann that got it good. There were three houses in the family compound and only one was there at the end of the storm. It survived because the storm threw a boulder into the ground floor that was the size of a VW and it stabilized the house and that was the one the whole family was gathered in. Between surges they would run downstairs and get family mementos like painting and run back up the stairs as the water came back in. Can you imagine how scared they must have been? However, they didn't know the other houses were completely gone until the storm ended. They just gathered in the house that was built the highest on the beach. In the book and movie, a fishing boat out of Glouchester, Mass left and didn't come back. All on board were lost at sea. It, like my tale, is a true story and just broke my heart. I'd already read the book when I went to see the movie and started crying when the title came up. LOL

Answer 3

In October of 1991 a storm stronger than any in recorded history hit the coast off of Gloucester, Massachusetts. This "Perfect Storm" — so called because it was three storms combined into one — created an almost apocalyptic situation in the Atlantic ocean, where boats encountered waves of 100 feet (30 meters) — the equivalent of a ten-story building. These storms are some of the strongest and most terrifying manifestations of nature's strength

Answer 4

a cold front moving down from Canada ran into a weakening hurricane that was moving North through the Atlantic. Their energy combined into a huge and very rare tempest. The movie "the Perfect Storm" dramatized the ordeal of fishermen who were caught at sea at the point of the storm's worst fury. It produced waves 100 ft high and winds and became a giant cyclone. Part of it was designated a minor hurricane but not given a name.

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Answer 5

I remember that one. Picture a low pressure area spinning like a pinwheel counterclockwise. It comes up the Atlantic coast and the left side of the pinwheel blows wet northeast winds with lots of rain off the ocean into New England. The storm moves northeastward toward the Canadian maritimes, but a trough of low pressure ahead of a front moving west to east through the northeast combines with the low pressure to create a deeper low. Now the thing is intense, like a winter noreaster, and it actually backs down toward the New England coast again and hangs there for a couple of days, spinning off waves of wind and rain that stirred up the ocean and causes lots of coastal damage before it finally spins off to Newfoundland. Just a bunch of factors that contributed to a very big windy rainy low that hung around the coast for too long.