The five November Hurricanes to remember!

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A nor’easter spawned by the remnants of Hurricane Ida batters South Nags Head, N.C., on Nov. 13, 2009. (Image credit: iWitness Weather/KevinO)

Ida formed Nov. 4 and first made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua after passing near the Corn Islands.

It weakened to a depression before reemerging over the Caribbean, eventually peaking as a Category 2 hurricane over the Yucatan Channel on Nov. 8 with 105 mph winds.

Ida moved north into the Gulf of Mexico and became a post-tropical storm shortly before reaching the Alabama coast Nov. 10.

By early Nov. 12, the remnants of Ida had transformed into a powerful non-tropical low pressure center near the coast of the Carolinas. The Weather Channel dubbed this storm “Nor’Ida”.

The remnants of Hurricane Ida spawned a non-tropical coastal low pressure system (indicated by the blue line) in November 2009.

This new, fairly strong non-tropical low caused far more problems for the U.S. than the original tropical system did. The system stalled near the Outer Banks before slowly drifting east. This, combined with strong high pressure over New England, created a prolonged period of onshore winds across much of the Mid-Atlantic region.

(MORE: Nor'Ida – A Coastal Mess)

Three years before Superstorm Sandy, Nor’Ida did an estimated $180 million in damage to towns along the New Jersey shore. Delaware was also hard hit as the storm carried away at least 4 million cubic yards of sand.

The Hampton Roads area around Norfolk, Va., experienced serious coastal flooding from storm surge, freshwater flooding from up to 18 inches of rain, and strong damaging wind gusts to 75 mph.

Closer to the center of Nor’Ida, the Outer Banks took a hammering with locally a foot of rain, and relentless coastal flooding that led to the closure of Highway 12. That road was temporarily buried under feet of sand.