The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency has compiled a list of hurricanes that have had a significant impact in the Bay State. Take a look.
September 21 marks the 71st anniversary of the largest, most damaging hurricane to strike Southern New England in the past century. The Great Hurricane of 1938 killed 600 people and injured more than 4000 more. 75,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed. It is still the worst natural disaster in the history of New York, Connecticut, [...]
I always knew there was a reason I kept some of my early work on television. It is so I can look at it and cringe. Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Tropical Storm Floyd. Here is a selection of some of my coverage before, during, and after the storm. Try to ignore the [...]
Tropical Storm Floyd roared through Southern New England September 16-17, 1999. The storm was a hurricane as it hammered the Mid-Atlantic, but it weakened as it moved over the eastern part of North Carolina. Floyd was downgraded from a category one hurricane to a tropical storm as it crossed Delaware Bay around midday on Thursday, [...]
The remnants of Tropical Storm Danny had a decent impact in Southern New England. The storm brought and impressive band of heavy rain, with more than five inches reported in some spots in Southeastern Massachusetts. Street flooding was reported in several areas. The storm also managed to bring some wind gusts strong enough to down [...]
ABC6 Stormtracker Jim Corbin shares some home video of Hurricane Bob on the 18th anniversary of the last hurricane to directly strike the Southern New England coast. This video from Jim Corbin ( heard briefly on the phone and seen very briefly looking out the window!) shows Hurricane Bob on August 19, 1991 affecting Westboro, [...]
One of the things that can be helpful when looking at a storm’s potential track and impact is to look back at previous storms. As far as I can tell, the most recent storm with a track similar to Bill’s forecast track was Hurricane Edouard in 1996. Hurricane Edouard, although not a landfalling hurricane in [...]
Here is a collection of YouTube videos from the last hurricane to strike the Southern New England coast — Hurricane Bob in 1991. There are multiple videos in the collection. You can see the playlist by clicking on the arrows at the sides of the video window.
A collection of miscellaneous photos from Bob, the last hurricane to strike the Southern New England coast. Some of these pictures come from a short, but very informative, web page about Hurricane Bob. Click here for more.
Special thanks to Charles Hall for more great hurricane damage photos. These are from Riverside, RI after Hurricane Carol in 1954.