WeatherInsights?: The Weather Channel Blog - October 2009
October 30, 2009 Meteorological perfection Add this to: Digg
Reddit Facebook Newsvine Stu Ostro, Senior Meteorologist   Today
marks the anniversary of the peak of what for awhile was known
as the "Halloween Storm," until Bob Case of the National Weather
Service coined it "The Perfect Storm," and then came the book &
movie which chronicled the plight of the Andrea Gail and
escalated this weather event's legacy into popular culture.
With Jim Cantore reporting live today from Gloucester,
Massachusetts and The Weather Channel airing The Perfect Storm
tonight, I'm reproducing here the blog entry I posted on the
15th anniversary in 2006. And while I'm at it, here are links to
a great sequence of satellite images showing the life cycle of
the storm and an animation of the evolution at the surface and
aloft.  Mr. Case was not engaging in hyperbole. This was truly
an extraordinary confluence of atmospheric ingredients. Although
other East Coast cyclones (e.g.