Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 28, 2011



During the 1911 Atlantic hurricane season, a below-average number of six known tropical cyclones formed in the Atlantic. 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 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. (more...)

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