Hazel Mae - The Canadian Encyclopedia

This Day In Weather History is a daily podcast by Chris Mei from The Weather Network, featuring stories about people, communities and events and how weather impacted them.--Hazel was the deadliest storm of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season. It was also Toronto's worst natural disaster and Canada's most destructive hurricane. Hurricane Hazel developed on Oct. 5, 1954, approximately 350 km east of Grenada. On Oct. 12, Hazel made landfall on Haiti as a Category 3 hurricane. The hurricane hit the Caribbean country again the next day. The same day, Hazel hit Inagua in the Bahamas with winds as high as 160 km/h. Hurricane Hazel. Courtesy of Environment CanadaContent continues belowOn Oct. 15, the hurricane made landfall near the North Carolina/South Carolina border. Hazel moved across the areas with 215 km/h winds as a Category 4 storm. On Oct. 16, Hurricane Hazel reached Toronto, Ont. The next day, the remnants of the storm moved over James Bay. The next day, the remainder of Hazel was absorbed by a larger storm over Canada.

Hurricane Hazel grew into one of Ontario’s most destructive storms in modern history--and the storm made landfall more than 1,000 kilometres away. Dozens of people died when the storm’s drenching rains unleashed flash floods throughout portions of the Greater Toronto Area. Gusty winds caused additional damage and power outages. DON’T MISS: Hurricane remnants can bring dangerous weather deep into CanadaHazel began as a tropical storm near Barbados on the morning of Oct. 5, gaining major hurricane status five days later as it turned toward Haiti. The hurricane's destructive winds and flooding rains killed hundreds of people in the country. The storm strengthened further as it accelerated toward the U. S. East Coast, making landfall near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, as a Category 4 hurricane. Hazel produced wind gusts as high as 225 km/h and a storm surge of 5.5 metres above ground level where it came ashore. A few hours after landfall, Hazel underwent an extratropical transition in a process very similar to what we saw during Sandy in 2012 and Fiona in 2022. The system, now akin to an exceptionally strong nor’easter, raced toward Ontario.

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