There was little central pressure change until the cyclone passed the latitude of Astoria, Oregon, at which time the low began to degrade. The storm then raced nearly northward at an average speed of 40 miles per hour (64 km/h), with the center situated just 50 miles (80 km) off the Pacific Coast. The low moved northeastward, and then hooked straight north, as it neared southwest Oregon.
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The extratropical low redeveloped intensely off the coast of Northern California, due to favorable upper-level conditions, producing record rainfall across the San Francisco Bay Area that delayed some games in the 1962 World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the New York Yankees. However, post-season analysis concluded that the system continued weakening as it continued northeastward, crossing the 180th meridian later that afternoon, before completing the transition that evening. The system became an extratropical cyclone as it moved into colder waters and interacted with the jet stream. Moving northeastward at a steady rate of 16 mph (26 km/h), the storm slowly underwent an extratropical transition, becoming extratropical operationally on the morning of October 10, still with winds of 45 mph (65 km/h). Making a turn to the northeast, Freda maintained typhoon-status winds for several more days, before weakening into a tropical storm on October 9, as it started experiencing the effects of cold air.
After stabilizing to the north, Freda maintained its strength through the Pacific, before beginning to weaken slowly on October 6. On October 4, the typhoon quickly intensified, reaching its peak of 115 mph (185 km/h) on the next day, with a minimum central pressure of 948 millibars (27.99 inHg), making the storm the equivalent of a Category 3 typhoon on the Saffir–Simpson scale. On that afternoon, Freda intensified into a typhoon, with 1-minute sustained winds of 80 mph (130 km/h). Now named Freda, the system rapidly intensified as it proceeded northeastward over the open Pacific waters. After moving westward and making a large bend around the island, the new system slowly gained strength, and on the morning of October 3, the system became a tropical storm about 500 miles (800 km) from Wake Island, over the central Pacific Ocean. On the morning of September 28, a tropical disturbance formed south of the island of Eniwetok Atoll. The system brought strong winds to the Pacific Northwest and southwest Canada, and was linked to 46 fatalities in the northwest and Northern California resulting from heavy rains and mudslides.Įxtratropical cyclone / Remnant low / Tropical disturbance / Monsoon depression in the 20th century with respect to wind velocity, it is unmatched by the March 1993 " Storm of the Century" and the " 1991 Halloween Nor'easter" ("The Perfect Storm"). The storm is a contender for the title of the most powerful extratropical cyclone recorded in the U.S. The storm ranks among the most intense to strike the region since at least 1948, likely since the Janu" Great Gale" and snowstorm. The Columbus Day Storm of 1962 is considered to be the benchmark of extratropical wind storms. Afterward, the system moved into Canada and weakened, before being absorbed by another developing storm to the south on October 17. On October 13, the cyclone made landfall on Washington and Vancouver Island, and then curved northwestward. On October 11, Freda turned eastward and accelerated across the North Pacific, before striking the Pacific Northwest on the next day. On October 9, Freda weakened into a tropical storm, before transitioning into an extratropical cyclone on the next day. Freda maintained its intensity for another day, before beginning to gradually weaken, later on October 6. The storm quickly intensified, reaching its peak as a Category 3-equivalent typhoon on October 5, with maximum 1-minute sustained winds of 115 mph (185 km/h) and a minimum central pressure of 948 millibars (28.0 inHg). On October 3, the system strengthened into a tropical storm and was given the name Freda, before becoming a typhoon later that day, while moving northeastward. Freda originated from a tropical disturbance over the Northwest Pacific on September 28. Typhoon Freda was the twenty-eighth tropical depression, the twenty-third tropical storm, and the eighteenth typhoon of the 1962 Pacific typhoon season. The Columbus Day Storm of 1962 (also known as the Big Blow, and originally, and in Canada as Typhoon Freda) was a Pacific Northwest windstorm that struck the West Coast of Canada and the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States on October 12, 1962. Part of the 1962 Pacific typhoon season and 1962–63 North American winter
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