Late Season Tropical Storms that have affected the U.S. north of
Hatteras Late Season Tropical Storms that have affected the U.S.
north of Hatteras As it appears increasingly likely that a
‘Frankenstorm’ may hit the U.S. coast somewhere between Delaware
and Maine between October 29th and November 1st I thought I
would take a look back and see what other late season storms of
this nature and magnitude have previously affected the region.
The Great Storm of October 29, 1693: Virginia to Long Island A
tremendous storm, possibly tropical in origin, changed the
course of rivers and modified the coastline from the Delmarva
Peninsula to Long Island. It is believed that Fire Island (just
east of New York City) was bisected by the storm. The same
apparently occurred to many coastal portions of the Delmarva
Peninsula and region around Chesapeake Bay. The Benjamin
Franklin ’Eclipse’ Hurricane of November 2, 1743: New Jersey to
Maine David M. Ludlum in his classic book ‘Early American
Hurricanes: 1492-1870’ (American Met