In the 1850 Atlantic hurricane season, three significant tropical cyclones affected land. Records of other storms are incomplete, since the Atlantic hurricane database goes back only to 1851. The first system struck North Carolina in July, causing significant damage before battering the Mid-Atlantic states. Rivers were flooded from Baltimore to northern New England, and 20 people were killed along the Schuylkill River. In August, a strong hurricane hit Havana, Cuba, before making landfall on the Florida Panhandle with an enormous storm surge. Coastal flooding was severe around Apalachicola. Abundant precipitation fell from Georgia through Virginia; one river swelled more than 20 feet (6 m) above its normal height. The storm toppled a railroad bridge near Halifax, North Carolina. Offshore, a pilot boat collided with a larger ship in the rough seas and sank. Considered the worst storm in nearly 30 years in the tidewater region of Virginia, the cyclone briefly reentered the Atlantic off New Jersey before making landfall over New England, with strong winds and moderate to heavy rains. In September, a hurricane brushed the coastline from New York to Cape Cod with gusty winds and appreciable rainfall, and later struck Atlantic Canada. (Full article...)Recently featured: HMS Bellerophon (1786) History of Bradford City A.F.C. Three-cent nickelArchive By email More featured articles...Did you know...From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:The Stanley Hotel in 1903... that the Stanley Hotel, Nairobi (pictured) was the first location to sell a bottle of Tusker?... that physicist Warren Elliot Henry learned quantum mechanics from Arthur Compton, nuclear theory from Wolfgang Pauli, and molecular spectra from Robert Millikan?and played tennis with Enrico Fermi?... that Guillaume Apollinaire wrote in The Cubist Painters (1913), "A man like Picasso studies an object as a surgeon dissects a cadaver"?... that Elvy Kalep, Estonia's first female aviator, was a friend of Amelia Earhart?... that all the riders on the Arme de Terre cycling team are enlisted soldiers?... that Verrill's hermit crab sometimes makes use of a tube-like shell fixed to a rock and consequently becomes a filter feeder?... that Lilian Knowles was Britain's second professor in Economic Histo