During the 1911 Atlantic hurricane season, a below-average number of six known tropical cyclones formed in the Atlantic during the summer and fall months. Three non-developing tropical depressions are also thought to have existed, including one that began the season in February and one that ended the season when it dissipated in December. Half of the officially recognized storms intensified into hurricanes, of which two attained Category 2 status on the modern-day Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale. Most of the cyclones directly impacted land. A westward-moving hurricane made landfall south of Savannah, Georgia on August 28, killing 17 people and leaving severe damage in and around Charleston, South Carolina. Two weeks earlier, the Pensacola, Florida, area had suffered from a storm in the Gulf of Mexico that produced winds of 80 mph (130 km/h) over land. The fourth storm of the season struck the coast of Nicaragua, killing 10 people and inflicting extensive damage. Given the relative lack of real-time observations at the time, storm data is based largely on re-analyzing the Atlantic hurricane database.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1565:
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded St. Augustine in Spanish Florida, the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the continental United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Augustine%2C_Florida
1849:
Austria reconquered the Republic of San Marco , an Italian revolutionary state that had declared its independence 17 months earlier. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_San_Marco
1914:
In the first naval battle of World War I, British ships defeated the German fleet in the Heligoland Bight area of the North Sea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Heligoland_Bight_%281914%29
1924:
An unsuccessful insurrection against the Soviet rule in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, known as the August Uprising, began. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Uprising
1957:
U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond began a filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 that lasted for 24 hours and 18 minutes, the longest one ever by a single Senator. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
pareidolia (n): The tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something meaningful; for example, seeing shapes in clouds http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pareidolia
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
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