55th Anniversary, Hurricane Donna

Brian Peters | September 11, 2015 @ 7:34 am

It was 55 years ago that an impressionable young man in the 6th grade experienced the fury of Hurricane Donna. His interest was further heightened through the presentation of the storm by one of the Nation’s first on-air degreed meteorologists, Roy Leep. It was this encounter which set him firmly on the road to a career in meteorology. And today the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami has put together a great page documenting Donna. You can find that page by clicking on this link.

Below is a map of the Atlantic Basin showing the complete path of Hurricane Donna as well as the paths of the other six tropical storms for 1960.

-Brian-

Category: Tropical

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Brian Peters is one of the television meteorologists at ABC3340 in Birmingham and a retired NWS Warning Coordination Meteorologist. He handles the weekend Weather Xtreme Videos and forecast discussion and is the Webmaster for the popular WeatherBrains podcast.