The November 1950 Superstorm Revisited – Fred Pickhardt
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The November 1950 Superstorm RevisitedThe “Coastal Bomb” That Sparked My Weather Obsession
I was only two years old in November 1950, living in an apartment complex called Barry Gardens in Passaic, New Jersey. My dad was a merchant seaman away from home and I retain a distant, hazy memory of that night—the terrifying sound of the howling wind outside and the pitch darkness that swallowed our apartment when the power failed. Looking back, that terrifying November Superstorm, alongside Hurricane Hazel a few years later in 1954, were among the moments the weather bug was planted in my brain.
Floods, Blizzards, and Bizarre TemperaturesThe November 1950 Superstorm (often referred to as the Great Appalachian Storm) was a monster of extremes. While coastal residents faced widespread flooding and hurricane-force winds, inland communities were buried under historic snowfalls and brutal cold… Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Fred Pickhardt’s Substack to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. A subscription gets you:
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