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1927 Nova Scotia hurricane, the Glossary

The 1927 Nova Scotia hurricane (also known as the 1927 Great August Gale or the Great Gale of August 24) was the deadliest tropical cyclone striking Canada in the 20th century.^[1]

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Annapolis County, Nova Scotia

Annapolis County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia located in the western part of the province located on the Bay of Fundy.

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Annapolis Valley

The Annapolis Valley is a valley and region in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Atlantic Canada

Atlantic Canada, also called the Atlantic provinces (provinces de l'Atlantique), is the region of Eastern Canada comprising the provinces located on the Atlantic coast, excluding Quebec.

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Atmospheric pressure

Atmospheric pressure, also known as air pressure or barometric pressure (after the barometer), is the pressure within the atmosphere of Earth.

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Brockton, Massachusetts

Brockton is a city in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States; the population was 105,643 at the 2020 United States census.

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Canadian dollar

The Canadian dollar (symbol: $; code: CAD; dollar canadien) is the currency of Canada.

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Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelago and island country of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about.

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Charlottetown

Charlottetown is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County.

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Coordinated Universal Time

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time.

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Corner Brook

Corner Brook (2021 population: 19,333 CA 29,762) is a city located on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

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Cornwallis River

The Cornwallis River is in Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Curling, Newfoundland and Labrador

Curling is a mainly residential neighbourhood of the city of Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Digby, Nova Scotia

Digby is an incorporated town in southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Eastport, Maine

Eastport is a city and archipelago in Washington County, Maine, United States.

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Extratropical cyclones, sometimes called mid-latitude cyclones or wave cyclones, are low-pressure areas which, along with the anticyclones of high-pressure areas, drive the weather over much of the Earth.

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Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States.

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Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic

The Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic is a museum in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, operating seasonally from mid-May through mid-October.

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Grade (slope)

The grade (US) or gradient (UK) (also called stepth, slope, incline, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line refers to the tangent of the angle of that surface to the horizontal.

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Grand Banks of Newfoundland

The Grand Banks of Newfoundland are a series of underwater plateaus south-east of the island of Newfoundland on the North American continental shelf.

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Halifax, Nova Scotia

Halifax (Scottish-Gaelic: Halafacs or An Àrd-Bhaile) is the capital and most populous municipality of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the most populous municipality in Atlantic Canada.

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Harbourville, Nova Scotia

Harbourville is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Kings County on the Minas Channel of the Bay of Fundy.

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HURDAT

The Hurricane Databases (HURDAT), managed by the National Hurricane Center (NHC), are two separate databases that contain details on tropical cyclones, that have occurred within the Atlantic Ocean and Eastern Pacific Ocean since 1851 and 1949 respectively.

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Hurricane Bill (2009)

Hurricane Bill was a large Atlantic hurricane that brought minor damage across mainly Atlantic Canada and the East Coast of the United States during August 2009. 1927 Nova Scotia hurricane and hurricane Bill (2009) are cape Verde hurricanes and hurricanes in Canada.

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Hurricane Earl (2010)

Hurricane Earl was a long-lived and powerful Cape Verde hurricane that impacted the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, the East Coast of the United States, and Eastern Canada. 1927 Nova Scotia hurricane and hurricane Earl (2010) are cape Verde hurricanes and hurricanes in Canada.

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Iceland

Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.

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Jan Mayen

Jan Mayen is a Norwegian volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean with no permanent population.

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Lakeville, Nova Scotia

Lakeville is a small village in Kings County, Nova Scotia.

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Lawrence, Massachusetts

Lawrence is a city located in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, on the Merrimack River.

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List of hurricanes in Canada

The list of hurricanes in Canada refers to any tropical cyclone originating in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean affecting the country of Canada. 1927 Nova Scotia hurricane and list of hurricanes in Canada are hurricanes in Canada.

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Lists of Atlantic hurricanes

Lists of Atlantic hurricanes, or tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean, are organized by the properties of the hurricane or by the location most affected.

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Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

Lunenburg is a port town on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Maine

Maine is a state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the Lower 48.

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Maritime Museum of the Atlantic

The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is a maritime museum located in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Massachusetts Route 24

Route 24 is a freeway south of Interstate 93 (I-93) in southeastern Massachusetts, linking Fall River with the Boston metropolitan area.

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Maximum sustained wind

The maximum sustained wind associated with a tropical cyclone is a common indicator of the intensity of the storm.

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Middleborough, Massachusetts

Middleborough is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Monthly Weather Review

The Monthly Weather Review is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Meteorological Society.

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Nantucket

Nantucket is an island about south from Cape Cod.

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National Weather Service

The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States federal government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related products to organizations and the public for the purposes of protection, safety, and general information.

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New Brunswick

New Brunswick (Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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New England

New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

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New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad

The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, commonly known as The Consolidated, or simply as the New Haven, was a railroad that operated principally in the New England region of the United States from 1872 to December 31, 1968.

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Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region.

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Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is a province of Canada, located on its east coast.

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Pictou County

Pictou County is a county in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Portland, Maine

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine and the seat of Cumberland County.

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Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island (PEI;;; colloquially known as the Island) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Sable Island

Sable Island (île de Sable, literally "island of sand") is a small Canadian island situated southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and about southeast of the closest point of mainland Nova Scotia in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Saffir–Simpson scale

The Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS) classifies hurricanes—which in the Western Hemisphere are tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities of tropical depressions and tropical storms—into five categories distinguished by the intensities of their sustained winds.

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Saint John, New Brunswick

Saint John is a seaport city located on the Bay of Fundy in the province of New Brunswick, Canada.

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Sentinel & Enterprise

The Sentinel & Enterprise is a morning daily newspaper published in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, with a satellite news bureau in Leominster, Massachusetts.

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Ship

A ship is a large vessel that travels the world's oceans and other navigable waterways, carrying cargo or passengers, or in support of specialized missions, such as defense, research and fishing.

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Springhill, Nova Scotia

Springhill is a community located in central Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Surface weather analysis

Surface weather analysis is a special type of weather map that provides a view of weather elements over a geographical area at a specified time based on information from ground-based weather stations.

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Sydney, Nova Scotia

Sydney is a former city and urban community on the east coast of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada within the Cape Breton Regional Municipality.

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Taunton River

The Taunton River, historically also called the Taunton Great River, is a river in southeastern Massachusetts in the United States.

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The Bridgewater Bulletin

The Bridgewater Bulletin was a weekly community newspaper published on Nova Scotia’s South Shore by Lighthouse Publishing Ltd, one of the last family-owned newspapers in Canada.

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Tropical cyclone

A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls.

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Tropical wave

A tropical wave (also called easterly wave, tropical easterly wave, and African easterly wave), in and around the Atlantic Ocean, is a type of atmospheric trough, an elongated area of relatively low air pressure, oriented north to south, which moves from east to west across the tropics, causing areas of cloudiness and thunderstorms.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

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University of St. Joseph's College

The University of St.

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Wolfville

Wolfville is a Canadian town in the Annapolis Valley, Kings County, Nova Scotia, located about northwest of the provincial capital, Halifax.

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Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Yarmouth is a town in southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada.

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1900 Galveston hurricane

The 1900 Galveston hurricane, also known as the Great Galveston hurricane and the Galveston Flood, and known regionally as the Great Storm of 1900 or the 1900 Storm, is the deadliest natural disaster in United States history. 1927 Nova Scotia hurricane and 1900 Galveston hurricane are cape Verde hurricanes and hurricanes in Canada.

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1926 Nova Scotia hurricane

The 1926 Nova Scotia hurricane (also known as the 1926 Great August Gale) was one of the deadliest Canadian hurricanes in the 20th century. 1927 Nova Scotia hurricane and 1926 Nova Scotia hurricane are category 3 Atlantic hurricanes, hurricanes in Canada and natural disasters in Nova Scotia.

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1927 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1927 Atlantic hurricane season was a relatively inactive season, with eight tropical storms, four of which became hurricanes. 1927 Nova Scotia hurricane and 1927 Atlantic hurricane season are 1920s Atlantic hurricane seasons, 1927 meteorology and 1927 natural disasters.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1927_Nova_Scotia_hurricane

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1927 Nova Scotia hurricane, the Glossary

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See also

1920s Atlantic hurricane seasons

1927 disasters in Canada

1927 in Nova Scotia

1927 meteorology

1927 natural disasters

Natural disasters in Nova Scotia

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