Columbus Day Storm
Washington, Oregon and California
October 12, 1962

The 1962 Columbus Day storm began its path as Typhoon Freda, which formed in late September in the South Pacific and peaked on October 5. As it traveled to the Northeast, it weakened into an extratropical storm near the Aleutian Islands, but then regenerated and picked up speed as it veered south towards the Western coast of the United States. No other climatological event of this size and intensity had ever occurred before in the written history of the Pacific Northwest, and has not since.

The storm hit landfall in northern California, and began pounding Crescent City at 1:00 p.m. Gusts of up to 63 miles an hour battered the state as far south as San Francisco, postponing the sixth game of baseball's World Series at Candlestick Park.

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