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  1940 Atlantic hurricane season - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1940 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1940, and lasted until November 30, 1940.
After reaching a peak of 90 mph winds, the hurricane weakened to a minimal hurricane until hitting near the Georgia/South Carolina border on the 11th.
The hurricane caused around 100 deaths, 80 from the mountainous flooding, and $3 million in damage at the coastal area of Georgia and South Carolina.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1940_Atlantic_hurricane_season   (430 words)

  
 DeadlyStorms.com - Atlantic & Caribbean Hurricane Timeline & Season Summaries
The hurricane struck the Caribbean in the midst of the American Revolution and took a heavy toll on the British and French fleets contesting for control of the area.
Hurricanes caused $4.1 billion in damage in the United States and killed 147 people in the United States, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean islands, according to estimates from the National Hurricane Center.
Hurricane Lenny was memorable because it formed at the tail end of the season and because it moved easterly across the Caribbean, finally hitting the Dutch, French and British islands of the Northeast Caribbean last week.
www.deadlystorms.com /xtra/hurricane_timeline.htm   (9014 words)

  
 North Atlantic Hurricanes: Number of Atlantic HurricanesYears
Figure 3 shows the number of hurricanes in the August to October months for the different ENSO phases.
In most El Niño (La Niña) years, there are fewer (more) hurricanes than average, with some exceptions (such as 1951, 1963, 1969, 1970 and 1973), which could be related to decadal variability on the Atlantic hurricane activity or to the overestimation of hurricane windspeed in the years 1940 to 1960.
The relation between ENSO and hurricanes is stronger in the last 25 years.
iri.columbia.edu /climate/ENSO/globalimpact/TC/Atlantic/no_hurricane.html   (98 words)

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