Great Lakes Storm of 1913 - Wikipedia
The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, historically referred to as the Big Blow, [3] [a] the Freshwater Fury and the White Hurricane, was a blizzard with hurricane-force winds that devastated the Great Lakes Basin in the Midwestern United States and Southwestern Ontario, Canada, between November 7 and 10, 1913.
Remembering the November 1913 "White Hurricane" - National Weather Service
Nov 7, 2013 · Nicknamed the “White Hurricane,” this major winter storm stuck the Great Lakes on November 7-10, 1913, resulting in a dozen major shipwrecks, with an estimated 250 lives lost. It remains the largest inland maritime disaster, in terms of number of ships lost, in U.S. history.
Why the ‘White Hurricane’ of November 1913 was the Great ... - mlive
Nov 9, 2018 · The second phase, called the "White Hurricane," kicked in on Nov. 9, which became the storm's deadliest day, especially for sailors on Lake Huron who were busy ferrying grain and iron ore to...
The White Hurricane: The Great Lakes Blizzard of 1913
Jun 7, 2024 · Known by a number of nicknames, including, “the Big Blow,” “the Freshwater Fury,” and “the White Hurricane,” the blizzard of 1913 battered the Great Lakes region of the U.S. and Canada from November 6 through November 10, 1913.
'White Hurricane': Remembering the Great Lakes Storm of 1913
Nov 13, 2013 · Those are just a few of the phrases coined to refer to the Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the deadliest and most destructive storm to ever hit the Great Lakes region. The storm struck in...
‘Four days of hell’: Remembering the 1913 storm that sunk a …
Nov 9, 2023 · One hundred and ten years ago, a storm that raged for four days across the region sunk a dozen ships and claimed the lives of more than 250 sailors. The 1913 storm earned many nicknames,...
hurricane force winds, blinding snow squalls, freezing spray, and massive wave trains over the Great Lakes. • The “White Hurricane” was the deadliest and most intense phase of the Great Storm of 1913 – and is the focus of this Numerical Model Retrospective.
Remembering the Great Lakes Storm of 1913
Nov 6, 2020 · Call it what you will—the White Hurricane, the Freshwater Fury, the Big Blow, or the Great Lakes Storm of 1913—this natural disaster was the most deadly and destructive to ever hit the Great Lakes.
White Hurricane - Wikipedia
White Hurricane can refer to these weather events: Great Blizzard of 1888, a powerful blizzard that affected the Northeast United States; Great Lakes Storm of 1913, a blizzard that affected the Great Lakes region of the U.S. and Canada; Great Blizzard of 1978, a blizzard that affected the Great Lakes region of the U.S. and Canada
Cleveland, Ohio was slammed particularly hard from the storm...with nearly two feet of snow falling from the 9th through the 11th...including 17.4 inches on the 10th alone. Travel was paralyzed by snow clogging streets...and power was out for multiple days.