Portal:Weather/On this day list/November 1
November 1: Start of the Australian region and South Pacific cyclone seasons[edit]
1570: The All Saints' Flood, possibly causing the highest storm surge in the history of the Netherlands, killed around 20,000 people.
1974: AMeDAS, a network for gathering weather data around the islands of Japan, began operation.
1985: Hurricane Juan degenerated into an extratropical cyclone over Tennessee, and began causing rain in Virginia and West Virginia. Rain would continue to fall in the Virginias for 5 more days, leading to historic floods that would kill 62 people.
1991: A strong storm system, better known as The Perfect Storm became a hurricane while lashing New England and Atlantic Canada with 30-foot (10-meter) waves and winds gusting above 60 mph (100 km/h).
1997: Cyclone Martin pushed a destructive storm surge across Manihiki atoll in the Cook Islands, destroying nearly all buildings on the island and killing 20 people.