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"The technical name for the new surprise was a 'midlatitude cyclone.' The folks in its path, however, would later call it the No Name Hurricane, since it experienced all the drive of an hurricane, but was never officially chosen as you. And because the brunt of the surprise would reach the Eastern Seaboard around Oct 31, it would also acquire another name: the Halloween Gale." (Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm) People in the Northeastern United States have been interacting with winter storms for years and years, and folks in the South and on the East Coastline have handled hurricanes and tropical storms for for as long, but it's exceptional for the weather systems that produce such storms to actually collide with each other and create a more powerful surprise. Actually it's strange enough that when it just happened in late Oct 1991, one weatherman dubbed it the "perfect surprise". Indeed, the perfect surprise of 1991 was unique in many respects. By nourishing off of Hurricane Elegance and another surprise south, the nor'easter that was striking the Northeast and Canada became an incredibly powerful surprise that struck the North Atlantic before swinging back south and again developing into a tropical storm. In the process it produced waves more than 100 legs near Nova Scotia and brought on substantial flooding across the East Coast. It was also responsible for a small number of deaths throughout the spot. The storm may have been one particular that residents in the area would remember and speak about in comparison to subsequent storms, but the perfect surprise is well-known in the united states because of Sebastian Junger's publication, The Perfect Storm.
