Hurricanes and the Middle Atlantic States
This reference traces the region's 400-year recorded hurricane history, from Jamestown to the present, drawing on accounts in newspaper articles, books, private journals, and interviews. Emphasizing the human side of a hurricane's aftermath rather than scientific aspects, each hurricane account tells how individuals and communities reacted to the storms. Storms are profiled in year-by-year entries from the 1600's to the current century
Print Book, English, ©2007
Blue Diamond Books, Springfield, Va., ©2007
399 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
9780978628000, 0978628004
163616894
Hurricanes: an overview: Tropical cyclones: structure, seasonality, frequency, duration, strength
the Saffir-Simpson Scale, storm surge, tornadoes, naming
Hurricanes: Forecasting history
Hurricanes: 1600s
1700s
1800s
1900s
2000s
Nor'easters: a sampler of notable nor'easters from 1950 to the present
Hurricane preparedness/safety
APPENDICES: Appendix A. The Beaufort Wind Force Scale
Appendix B. Retired hurricane names
Appendix C. National Weather Service field offices in the Middle Atlantic States
Appendix D. Mid-Atlantic state offices of climatology