On this date in weather history, September 12, 1944: A tropical system moved through the Windward Islands on September 8. By the 9th, the hurricane was found by reconnaissance aircraft northeast of Puerto Rico. The cyclone moved west-northwest, and was just off the northern Bahamas on the evening of the 12th. Since the storm was extremely large and intense, the Miami Hurricane Warning Office named it the Great Atlantic Hurricane. Moving to the north, the center passed just east of Hatteras at 9:20 am on the 14th. Continued acceleration to the north-northeast became apparent as the center made landfall on eastern Long Island at 10 pm the same day, and then into New England near Point Judith, Rhode Island an hour later before escaping back out to sea offshore of Massachusetts. The center skimmed the coast of Maine before moving into southeast New Brunswick, and eventually Newfoundland before merging with a non-tropical cyclone near Greenland. The rainfall map for the Great Atlantic Hurricane was created by Paul Kocin.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 10:00:00 +0000
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