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Compass card (1607), featuring the spelling "Noreast" The term nor'easter came to American English by way of British English.Early recorded uses of the contraction nor (for north) in combinations such as nor'-east and nor-nor-west, as reported by the Oxford English Dictionary, date to the late 16th century, as in John Davis's 1594 The Seaman's Secrets: "Noreast by North raiseth a degree in ...
Nor'easters can be classified into 2 categories, Miller Type-A and Miller Type-B, depending on their point of origin, and the type helps determine who experiences winter weather from the storm.
The Superstorm of 1993, a classic Miller type A nor'easter. The Miller classification is a technique that meteorologists use to classify nor'easters.The system splits nor'easters into five categories: Miller A, Miller B, Miller C, Miller D, and Miller E; the classification system initially started out with the first two categories.
The 1993 Storm of the Century (also known as the 93 Superstorm, The No Name Storm, or the Great Blizzard of '93/1993) was a cyclonic storm, or nor'easter, that formed over the Gulf of Mexico on March 12, 1993.
A Gulf low or Texas Low is a low pressure area that forms or intensifies over the Gulf of Mexico and moves northeast on the western side of the Appalachian Mountains and sometimes on the Atlantic coast to become a nor'easter. Because they move from over or near the Gulf of Mexico, these storm systems are capable of transporting copious amounts ...
Nor'easters are often associated with snow, but this week's storm featured only rain, although it still had the defining quality to make it a nor'easter --the direction of the wind. Some of the ...
Nor’easters have long slammed the East Coast with snow and high winds, causing severe damage. These are the 10 worst ones in recorded history.
The wall cloud is a spinning layer of clouds descending from the mesocyclone. The wall cloud tends to form closer to the center of the mesocyclone. The wall clouds do not necessarily need a mesocyclone to form and do not always rotate. As the wall cloud descends, a funnel-shaped cloud may form at its center.