Great Atlantic Hurricane - September 1944  The system that
became this hurricane moved through the Windward Islands on
September 8.  By the 9th, the hurricane was found by
reconnaissance aircraft northeat of Puerto Rico.  The cyclone
moved west-northwest, and was just off the northern Bahamas on
the evening of the 12th.  Since the storm was extremely large
and intense, the Miami Hurricane Warning Office named it "Great
Atlantic Hurricane."  Moving to the north, the center passed
just east of Hatteras at 9:20 am on the 14th.  Continued
acceleration to the north-northeast became apparent as the
center made landfall on eastern Long Island at 10 pm the same
day, and then into New England near Point Judith, Rhode Island
an hour later before escaping back out to sea offshore
Massachusetts.  The center skimmed the coast of Maine before
moving into southeast New Brunswick, and eventually Newfoundland
before merging with a nontropical cyclone near Greenland.   The
rainfall map below for the Great Atlantic Hurricane wa