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[edit] October 2

1858: A hurricane hit San Diego, California, the only known hurricane ever to strike the Pacific coast of the United States.

[edit] October 3

1970: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is formed.

1979: A rare autumn tornado hit Windsor Locks, Connecticut, the costliest tornado ever to strike the Northeastern United States.

[edit] October 4

1869: The 1869 Saxby Gale, an Atlantic hurricane, killed more than 100 people around the Bay of Fundy.

[edit] October 6

1981: NLM Cityhopper Flight 431, a short-range passenger flight, flew into a tornado near Moerdijk, Netherlands. All 17 on board were killed.

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1737: A severe cyclone killed 3,000 people in Calcutta, India.

[edit] October 10

1780: The Great Hurricane of 1780 began its trek through the Carribean Sea, which eventually led to the deaths of 22,000 people.

[edit] October 11

1846: The Great Havana Hurricane of 1846 killed 163 people in Cuba.

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1634: The Burchardi flood struck the north coast of Germany and Denmark, killing thousands.

1962: The Columbus Day Storm brought damaging winds of more than 100 mph (160 km/h) to a large area of the Pacific Northwest.

1979: The record lowest air pressure ever recorded on earth, 870 mbar, is measured in the eye of Typhoon Tip.

[edit] October 13

2006: Lake Storm "Aphid" dumped two feet of incredibly heavy snow on Buffalo, New York, destroying 90% of the city's trees and resulting in 13 deaths.

[edit] October 15

1987: The Great Storm of 1987 hit France and England.

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1975: The first Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-1) was launched to observe cloud patterns, surface temperatures, and other atmospheric trends best viewed from space.

[edit] October 19

2005: Hurricane Wilma produces the lowest atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere while over the Caribbean Sea.

[edit] October 22

1943: The crew of a German U-boat covertly planted Weather Station Kurt in northern Newfoundland, attempting to gain an advantage in wartime weather forecasting.

[edit] October 25

1921: the Tampa Bay Hurricane made landfall near Tarpon Springs, Florida.

[edit] October 29

1998: Hurricane Mitch, after drifting off the coast for nearly a week, finally makes landfall in Honduras. It would cause historic flooding over the next few days, killing as many as 18,000 people.

[edit] October 31

1961: Hurricane Hattie, a strong Category 4 tropical cyclone, struck Belize City, Belize (then British Honduras). After crossing Central America as a tropical depression, the storm restrengthened, and was renamed "Simone" because naming conventions in the Pacific Ocean are different from those in the Atlantic. After making landfall in southern Mexico, the storm crossed back into the Gulf of Mexico, and was renamed again as "Inga". It is the only storm ever to receive three names.