Tropical Storm Carrie was a tropical storm that affected the East Coast of the United States in early September 1972. The third tropical cyclone of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season, it formed on August 29 from a complex sequence of meteorological events starting with the emergence of a tropical wave into the Atlantic in the middle of August. Tracking generally northward, Carrie reached an initial peak intensity as a moderate tropical storm before nearly weakening back into tropical depression status. The storm began to reintensify in a baroclinic environment after turning toward the northwest; its winds of 70 mph (110 km/h) as it was transitioning into an extratropical system eclipsed the cyclone's previous maximum strength. The extratropical remnants of Carrie skirted eastern New England before making landfall in Maine on September 4 and dissipating over the Gulf of St. Lawrence over the next two days. Overall damage was light, with total losses valued at $1,780,000, and four deaths.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1839:
First Opium War: British vessels opened fire on Chinese war junks enforcing a food sales embargo on the British community on the Kowloon Peninsula. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kowloon
1843:
Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies and Pedro II of Brazil (both pictured) were married in an extravagant wedding at the Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_Cristina_of_the_Two_Sicilies
1934:
Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust was first published in full. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Handful_of_Dust
1977:
A gang-related shooting took place in Chinatown, San Francisco, leaving five dead and spurring police to end Chinese gang violence in the city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dragon_massacre
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
tawny: 1. Of a light brown to brownish orange colour. 2. (transitive) To cause (someone or something) to have a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn. 3. (intransitive) To become a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn. 4. A light brown to brownish orange colour. tawny: 5. (specifically, heraldry) Synonym of tenné (“a rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown”) 6. Something of a light brown or brownish orange colour (particularly if it has the word tawny in its name). 7. (Somerset) The common bullfinch or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula). 8. (alcoholic beverages) In full tawny port: a sweet, fortified port wine which is blended and matured in wooden casks. 9. (obsolete) 10. A fabric of a light brown to brownish orange colour. 11. (probably derogatory) A person with skin of a brown colour. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tawny
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir mens' blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. --Daniel Burnham https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Daniel_Burnham