NC Hurricanes - Hurricane Ginger Mystery Cache
NC Hurricanes - Hurricane Ginger
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This series of puzzle caches focuses on hurricanes that made landfall in the state of North Carolina. The difficulty level of the cache will correspond to the category level of the storm. Some will be easy and some difficult but all fun and educational. The final cache container is NOT located at the posted coordinates. To solve, just do the math: North 555-552=A 739-735=B 12-8=C 37-36=D 9-1=E 9-1=F 9-8=G West 89-82=H 6-0=I 739-735=J 55-49=K 10-1=L 10-1=M 18-10=N
Hurricane Ginger was the second longest-lasting Atlantic hurricane on record. The eighth tropical cyclone and fifth hurricane of the 1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Ginger spent 27.25 days as a tropical cyclone, lasting from September 6 to October 3. Twenty of those days (September 11-September 30), Ginger was classified as a hurricane. The storm formed northeast of the Bahamas, and for the first nine days of its duration tracked generally eastward or northeastward while gradually strengthening to peak winds of 110 mph (175 km/h). On September 14, Ginger slowed and turned to a general westward track, passing near Bermuda on September 23. There, the hurricane produced gusty winds and high waves, but no damage. While over the western Atlantic Ocean, Ginger became the last target of Project Stormfury, which sought to weaken hurricanes by depositing silver iodide into tropical cyclone rainbands. Ginger ultimately struck North Carolina on September 30 as a minimal hurricane, lashing the coastline with gusty winds that caused power outages across the region.
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