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I have heard a brother of the story-telling trade at Naples preaching to a pack of good-for-nothing honest, lazy fellows by the sea-shore, work himself up into such a rage and passion with some of the villains whose wicked deeds he was describing and inventing, that the audience could not resist it;
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describes ″A perfect storm of thunder and lightning all over England (except London) doing fearful and fatal damage″ when recording monthly rainfall measurements for that year. This record is kept by the UK Meteorological Office. The next recorded instance is in the March 20, 1936, issue of the
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was a powerful storm by any measure, there have been other storms that have exceeded its strength. According to Case, the type of convergence of weather events to which he was referring, while unusual, is not exceptionally rare or unique, despite the way the phrase is commonly used.
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and they and the poet together would burst out into a roar of oaths and execrations against the fictitious monster of the tale, so that the hat went round, and the bajocchi tumbled into it, in the midst of a perfect storm of sympathy.
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The Oxford English Dictionary has published references going back to 1718 for "perfect storm", though the earliest citations use the phrase in the sense of "absolute" or "complete", or for emphasis, as in "a perfect stranger".
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of Junger's book. Since the release of the movie, the phrase has grown to mean any event where a situation is aggravated drastically by an exceptionally rare combination of circumstances.
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in Texas: "The weather bureau describes the disturbance as 'the perfect storm' of its type. Seven factors were involved in the chain of circumstances that led to the flood."
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is a meteorological event aggravated by a rare combination of circumstances. The term is used by analogy to an unusually severe
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in 1997 and its success brought the phrase into popular culture. Its adoption was accelerated with the release of the
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The first known use of the expression in the meteorological sense is on May 30, 1850, when the Rev. Lloyd of
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a flow of cool and dry air generated by a high-pressure from another direction
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Satellite image of northeast U.S. coast on November 1, 1991. Depicted is the
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in March of that year. The term is most frequently used to describe a
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in their 2007 list of words that deserve to be banned for overuse.
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warm air from a low-pressure system coming from one direction
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From the beginning, the phrase was in heavy use during the
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tropical moisture provided by tropical storm (or hurricane)
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planned to write a book about a fishing boat caught in the
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National Disaster Survey Report: Superstorm of March 1993
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National Weather Service, U.S. Department of Commerce.
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https://www.usatoday.com/weather/movies/ps/psname.htm
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Index

Perfect storm (disambiguation)

1991 Perfect Storm
storm
meteorological phenomena
storm of the century
National Weather Service
Nor'easter
weather pattern
hurricane
winter storm
William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair
Withington
Port Arthur News
Sebastian Junger
1991 Halloween Nor'easter
extratropical cyclone
Bob Case
meteorologist
National Weather Service
storm
The Perfect Storm
2000 feature film adaptation
1991 Halloween Nor'easter
financial crisis of 2007–2008
Lake Superior State University
ARkStorm
Blizzard
Bomb cyclone

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