The system continued westward with disorganized convection, and was unable to develop further due to strong wind shear. This caused a low pressure area to develop on October 23 about 175 mi (282 km) east-northeast of the northern Lesser Antilles. It tracked westward, initially without organization, and by October 22 was interacting with a trough while approaching the Lesser Antilles. Noel's remnants subsequently merged with Cyclone Tilo, a powerful European windstorm, which later struck Western Europe and contributed to the North Sea flood of 2007 on the night of November 8–9.Įxtratropical cyclone / Remnant low / Tropical disturbance / Monsoon depressionĪ tropical wave exited the coast of Africa on October 16. After its extratropical transition, Noel became a very strong low pressure system, causing flooding and wind damage over Maine and Eastern Canada, with heavy rainfall occurring across Atlantic Canada, and snowfall over some areas of Eastern Quebec and Labrador. It was the deadliest North Atlantic hurricane of the 2007 hurricane season. The storm caused at least 163 direct deaths along its path, primarily in Dominican Republic and Haiti, due to flooding and mudslides. (The Canadian Hurricane Centre classified Noel as a "post-tropical storm" until 2200 UTC on November 4, when the CHC determined that Noel had lost all tropical characteristics.) The hurricane accelerated northeastward after crossing the Bahamas, and on November 2, it transitioned into an extratropical cyclone. Noel turned northward, and on November 1, it attained hurricane status. It strengthened to winds of 60 mph (97 km/h) before making landfall on western Haiti and the north coast of eastern Cuba. The sixteenth tropical depression, fourteenth named storm, and the sixth hurricane of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, Noel formed on October 27 from the interaction between a tropical wave and an upper-level low in the north-central Caribbean. Hurricane Noel was a deadly and very damaging tropical cyclone that carved a path of destruction across the Atlantic Ocean from the Caribbean Sea to Newfoundland in late October 2007. Part of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Cuba, Turks and Caicos Islands, Bahamas, Florida, Eastern United States, Eastern Canada, Greenland, Western Europe (966 mbar (28.53 inHg) while extratropical) Monthly 30 Year Normals (1981-2010) - Graphics and TextHurricane Noel near peak intensity north of The Bahamas, while undergoing extratropical transition, on November 2 Monthly Precipitation Totals and Departures from Normal Prior to that date, the normals were based on PRISM data from 1971-2000.
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