Type | Extratropical cyclone Nor'easter |
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Formed | November 20, 2006 |
Dissipated | December 1, 2006 |
Lowest pressure | 944 mbar (hPa) |
Maximum snowfall or ice accretion | 5 inches (13 cm) |
Fatalities | 1 |
Damage | Not yet known |
Areas affected | East Coast of the United States, Southern Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, United Kingdom |
Part of the 2006–07 North American winter storms |
The November 2006 nor'easter was a powerful extratropical cyclone that formed offshore of the Southeastern United States on November 20, bringing heavy rains, high winds, beach erosion, and coastal flooding to the Carolinas and southern New England. In addition, the earliest snowfall ever noted in both Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia occurred on the southwest side of this cyclone. Over 10,000 were without power during the storm. No longer a nor'easter, the extratropical cyclone accelerated rapidly across the North Atlantic while rapidly strengthening, becoming a cyclonic storm again by November 25, but this time with hurricane-force sustained winds. The intense low made a cyclonic loop west of Iceland, before being absorbed by another strengthening extratropical cyclone to the west of Great Britain, late on December 1.