Portal:Weather/On this day list/October
October 1[edit]
2015: Hurricane Joaquin, one of the worst hurricanes to hit the Bahamas on record, sunk the SS El Faro, killing 33 crew aboard.
October 2[edit]
1898: The strongest hurricane on record to strike the U.S. state of Georgia made landfall on Cumberland Island, killing 179 people in the state.
October 3[edit]
2005: Typhoon Longwang struck Fujian, China, causing major flooding that killed 147 people in the country.
October 4[edit]
1869: The 1869 Saxby Gale, an Atlantic hurricane, killed more than 100 people around the Bay of Fundy.
October 5[edit]
1948: A hurricane made three landfalls in one day, passing over Havana, Cuba and Miami, Florida in the process.
October 6[edit]
1941: A major hurricane made landfall in southern Florida, killing at least 10 people in the US and Bahamas.
October 7[edit]
2014: The Himawari 8 geostationary weather satellite, operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency, was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center.
October 8[edit]
1976: Hurricane Madeline made landfall near Zihuatanejo, Mexico, killing 7 people.
October 9[edit]
1943: An unnamed hurricane made landfall near Mazatlán, Mexico, killing around 100 people.
October 10[edit]
1780: The Great Hurricane of 1780, the deadliest tropical cyclone ever in the Atlantic Ocean, began its trek through the Caribbean Sea, which eventually led to the deaths of 27,500 people.
October 11[edit]
2005: Hurricane Vince made landfall on the Iberian Peninsula as a tropical depression, the only tropical cyclone since the 1800s to do so.
October 12[edit]
1981: Hurricane Norma made landfall near Mazatlán, Mexico, killing one person and causing severe crop damage. Its remnants would later cause severe flooding in Texas and Oklahoma, killing five more people.
October 13[edit]
1998: Typhoon Zeb reached peak intensity east of the Philippines, with maximum sustained winds of 180 miles per hour (290 km/h). The storm would make landfall near Ilagan the next day, killing more than 100 people.
October 14[edit]
1761: A tornado touched down in the area of Great Malvern, Worcestershire, in England.
October 15[edit]
1972: The NOAA-2 weather satellite was launched. NOAA-2 operated for more than 2 years in a polar orbit, returning radiometric data about cloud cover and atmospheric temperature around the globe.
October 16[edit]
1975: GOES-1, the first Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite was launched to observe cloud patterns, surface temperatures, and other atmospheric trends best viewed from space.
October 17[edit]
1944: A major hurricane struck Isla de la Juventud, Cuba, killing around 300 people.
October 18[edit]
1985: Typhoon Dot, one of the most severe tropical cyclones ever to strike the area, struck the Bicol Region of the Philippines, killing 101 people.
October 19[edit]
2005: Hurricane Wilma produced the lowest sea-level atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere while over the Caribbean Sea, at 882 millibars (26.05 inHg).
October 20[edit]
2004: Typhoon Tokage made landfall on southern Japan, killing 95 people.
October 21[edit]
1972: Cyclone Bebe struck Funafuti atoll in the Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu), completely flooding the island and killing 6 people.
October 22[edit]
1943: The crew of a German U-boat covertly planted Weather Station Kurt in northern Newfoundland and Labrador, attempting to gain an advantage in wartime weather forecasting.
October 23[edit]
1983: Heavy rain from the remnants of Tropical Storm Octave (1983) caused record crests on several rivers in Arizona.
October 24[edit]
2010: Hurricane Richard made landfall in Belize. One person was killed when their boat capsized, and another was mauled to death by a jaguar which escaped due to storm damage.
October 25[edit]
1992: Tropical Storm Zeke, the record-breaking 24th named storm of the 1992 Pacific hurricane season, formed over the open ocean south of Baja California.
October 26[edit]
1996: An unusual autumn tornado outbreak struck the northern Great Plains, including 14 in Minnesota, which was more than had ever struck the state for the entire month of October.
October 27[edit]
1959: An unnamed hurricane, the deadliest and one of the strongest ever to make landfall in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, struck Mexico near Manzanillo, Colima, killing around 1800 people.
October 28[edit]
1996: The extratropical remnants of Hurricane Lili struck Great Britain, causing ₤150 million in damage and killing two people.
October 29[edit]
2012: Hurricane Sandy struck the Northeastern United States as an extratropical cyclone, causing severe flooding which killed 286 people.
October 30[edit]
2005: Hurricane Beta, the last major hurricane of the hyperactive 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, reached peak intensity with maximum sustained winds of 115 miles per hour (185 km/h) off the coast of Nicaragua.
October 31[edit]
1876: One of the deadliest tropical cyclones in history struck the Backergunge District of British India (present-day Bangladesh), killing 100,000 people directly. Another 100,000 people would die in a subsequent famine.