On This Date: Longest Lasting Atlantic Hurricane Finally Made Landfall Jonathan ErdmanSeptember 30, 2025 at 5:00 AM 0 Thankfully, it's not happening this week, but we're looking back at a hurricane landfall on this date in history that wasn't unusual in the way you might think. On Sept.
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Jonathan ErdmanSeptember 30, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Thankfully, it's not happening this week, but we're looking back at a hurricane landfall on this date in history that wasn't unusual in the way you might think.
On Sept. 30, 1971, Hurricane Ginger made a Category 1 landfall in eastern North Carolina. That doesn't sound all that strange — according to NOAA's Hurricane Research Division, 58 hurricanes have directly hit North Carolina from 1851 through 2024.
But it finally splashed ashore 25 days after it formed as a tropical depression in the Bermuda Triangle.
Look at Ginger's path below. Doesn't it look like a random line a toddler drew with a crayon?
These erratic paths occur when there's a change in the upper-level winds that push a hurricane along. In Ginger's first nine days, it was generally moving toward the east or northeast.
But after Sept. 14, those steering winds reversed and began pushing Ginger back toward the west, like turning your car around on a city street. It not only moved slowly, but also did a tiny counterclockwise loop when those winds became light and changeable.
On Sept. 22, Ginger even crossed over its previous path from 10 days earlier when it was east of Bermuda. It finally picked up some speed and pushed ashore as the month ended before making a final C-shaped hook over North Carolina and southern Virginia for good measure.
Ginger's 27-day journey was the second-longest for an Atlantic Basin tropical cyclone, behind only the 1899 San Ciriaco hurricane's 28 days. Cyclone Freddy in 2023 was the planet's longest-lasting tropical cyclone, lasting a whopping 36 days from near Indonesia to Africa, then returning to the Mozambique Channel before hitting Africa a second time.
(MORE: Strangest Hurricane Tracks)
Hurricane Ginger track 1971
Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at weather.com and has been covering national and international weather since 1996. Extreme and bizarre weather are his favorite topics. Reach out to him on Bluesky, X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook.
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