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Jun 30, 2000 · 1 Video. 99+ Photos. Action Adventure Drama. An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger. Director. Wolfgang Petersen. Writers. Sebastian Junger. William D. Wittliff. Stars. George Clooney. Mark Wahlberg. John C. Reilly. See production info at IMDbPro. RENT/BUY. from $3.79.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Wolfgang Petersen
- 2000-06-30
- The Atlantic Low
- Ingesting A Hurricane Remnant
- Impact
- The 'Unnamed Hurricane'
- The Halloween Blizzard of 1991
After a strong cold front swept off the East Coast, an area of low pressure developed along the front east of Nova Scotia on Oct. 28, 1991, quickly intensifying into the following day. As it did so, a strong area of high pressure was burgeoning over eastern Canada, producing a tremendous pressure gradient between the high and the lowering pressure ...
On Oct. 29, the large non-tropical low south of Nova Scotia began to absorb Hurricane Grace, wrapping in its tropical moisture and likely receiving an injection of energy. You can see the evolution of this development in a YouTube clip featuring Stu Ostro’sanalysis from The Weather Channel’s coverage of the storm. Grace was whipped quickly just sou...
High winds lashed the New England coast on Oct. 30 and 31, with peak Massachusetts gusts of 78 mph at Chatham, 74 mph at Thatcher Island and 68 mph at Marblehead. A 63-mph gust was reported at Newport, Rhode Island. These high winds whipped up pounding surf caused by the long overwater fetch length and duration of the Perfect Storm, leading to coas...
This is where it got weird. As the overall storm began to weaken after lashing the East Coast, a tiny circulation within the storm intensified over the warm Gulf Stream into a full-fledged hurricane on Nov. 1, 1991. The U.S. Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters flew into this hurricane and measured maximum flight-level winds of 99 mph a few thousand...
As the Perfect Storm was morphing into an unnamed hurricane, a blizzard of historic proportions was raging over parts of the upper Midwest. The storm developed over the far western Gulf of Mexico off the Texas coast on Oct. 30, then strengthened and tracked north-northeast toward Minnesota and Wisconsin on Halloween and Nov. 1. Its connection with ...
The Perfect Storm is a 2000 American disaster drama film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and based on the 1997 creative non-fiction book of the same name by Sebastian Junger. The film was adapted by William D. Wittliff , with an uncredited rewrite by Bo Goldman , and tells the story of the Andrea Gail , a commercial fishing vessel that was lost ...
The 1991 Perfect Storm, also known as The No-Name Storm (especially in the years immediately after it took place) and the Halloween Gale/Storm, was a damaging and deadly nor'easter in October 1991. Initially an extratropical cyclone , the storm absorbed Hurricane Grace to its south and evolved into a small unnamed hurricane later in its life.
A perfect storm is a meteorological event aggravated by a rare combination of circumstances. The term is used by analogy to an unusually severe storm that results from a rare combination of meteorological phenomena .
The Perfect Storm. Jump to Edit. Summaries. An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger. In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail.
Oct 27, 2021 · The Story Behind ‘The Perfect Storm’. We caught up with author Sebastian Junger to find out how he reported the incredible Outside Classic story of the Andrea Gail’s crew, what’s changed in the...
