Florida has suffered more storms than any other state. This book offers insight into Florida's hurricane history. Using meteorological research, news reports and first-person accounts, it traces notable hurricanes over 450 years and gives information on dynamics, formation, forecasting and naming.

Extending far out into the Atlantic, the coast of North Carolina has been battered by countless hurricanes through the centuries. Many have overwashed the state's barrier islands and wrecked coastal communities. Great hurricanes like Hazel in 1954 and Hugo in 1989 have left legacies of destruction, but until now little has been written on the state's encounters with these and other fierce storms. North Carolina's Hurricane History is a richly illustrated record of more than fifty hurricanes known to have struck the Tar Heel state from the days of the first European explorers through hurricane...