Saturday, November 18, 2006

1950 Hurricane Season



There were thirteen storms that year. Two Tropical Storms and one hurricane reaching Cat 5.

The season started August 12th and ended October 21st.

The storms now had names, like Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog, Easy, Fox, George, How, Item, Jig, King, #12 and Love.

The central pressures were measured that year from 979 millibars to 955 millibars of the Cat 3 storms of which there were five. There were two Cat 4s.

The Cat 5 storm was Hurricane Dog and there was no central pressure measurement on this storm that started August 30 - Spetember 17th.



The Census Bureau of the USA would register a population of nearly 150 million people, half of what it is today. 74,833,249 were men and 75,846,122 were women of all ethnicities within the USA borders.


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