Question: Which hurricane did this nor'easter that happened a year before the December 1992 nor'easter absorb and evolve back into a small hurricane?
Context: The December 1992 nor'easter produced record high tides and snowfall across the northeastern United States.  It developed as a low pressure area on December 10 over Virginia, and for two days it remained over the Mid-Atlantic states before moving offshore.  In Maryland, the snowfall unofficially reached 48 in ; if verified, the total would have been the highest in the state's history.  About 120,000 people were left without power in the state due to high winds.  Along the Maryland coast, the storm was less severe than the Perfect Storm in the previous year, although the strongest portion of the storm remained over New Jersey for several days.  In the state, winds reached 80 mph in Cape May, and tides peaked at 10.4 ft in Perth Amboy.  The combination of high tides and 25 ft waves caused the most significant flooding in the state since the Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962.  Several highways and portions of the New York City Subway and Port Authority Trans-Hudson systems were closed due to the storm.  Throughout New Jersey, the nor'easter damaged about 3,200 homes and caused an estimated $750 million in damage (1992 USD). Herbivores are dependent on plants for food, and have coevolved mechanisms to obtain this food despite the evolution of a diverse arsenal of plant defenses against herbivory.  Herbivore adaptations to plant defense have been likened to "offensive traits" and consist of those traits that allow for increased feeding and use of a host.  Plants, on the other hand, protect their resources for use in growth and reproduction, by limiting the ability of herbivores to eat them.  Relationships between herbivores and their host plants often results in reciprocal evolutionary change.  When a herbivore eats a plant it selects for plants that can mount a defensive response, whether the response is incorporated biochemically or physically, or induced as a counterattack.  In cases where this relationship demonstrates "specificity" (the evolution of each trait is due to the other), and "reciprocity" (both traits must evolve), the species are thought to have coevolved.  The escape and radiation mechanisms for coevolution, presents the idea that adaptations in herbivores and their host plants, has been the driving force behind speciation.  The coevolution that occurs between plants and herbivores that ultimately results in the speciation of both can be further explained by the Red Queen hypothesis.  This hypothesis states that competitive success and failure evolve back and forth through organizational learning.  The act of an organism facing competition with another organism ultimately leads to an increase in the organism's performance due to selection.  This increase in competitive success then forces the competing organism to increase its performance through selection as well, thus creating an "arms race" between the two species.  Herbivores evolve due to plant defenses because plants must increase their competitive performance first due to herbivore competitive success. The history of Atlantic tropical cyclone warnings details the progress of tropical cyclone warnings in the north Atlantic Ocean.  The first service was set up in the 1870s from Cuba with the work of Father Benito Viñes.  After his death, hurricane warning services were assumed by the United States Signal Corp and United States Weather Bureau over the next few decades, first based in Jamaica and Cuba before shifting to Washington, D.C..  The central office in Washington, which would evolve into the National Meteorological Center and the Weather Prediction Center, assumed the responsibilities by the early 20th century.  This responsibility passed to regional hurricane offices in 1935, and the concept of the Atlantic hurricane season was established in order to keep a vigilant lookout for tropical cyclones during certain times of the year.  Hurricane advisories issued every six hours by the regional hurricane offices began at this time. Tom "Hammertime" Terry (Meteorologist) (born March 30, 1969) is an American television meteorologist.  Terry was born in Fresno, California but moved to the small town of Wellston, Oklahoma as a small child.  His father was in the U.S. Navy and served aboard the USS Gridley (DLG-21), and later owned and operated Terry's Drug Center in Wellston as a Doctor of Pharmacy.  Terry's mother taught high school history in nearby Luther, Oklahoma.  Terry graduated at top of his small class in Wellston in 1987 and grew up watching TV weather anchors in OKC cover numerous bouts of severe weather, tornadoes, and winter storms.  It was at that point where Terry was “hooked” on forecasting the weather and pursuing a career in front of the camera.  He grew to prominence during his television coverage and forecasting of Hurricane Charley's path through Orlando in 2004.  Terry publicly defied the National Hurricane Center forecast track which still took the center of the hurricane toward Tampa on August 13, 2004.  Terry had correctly recognized and forecast the storm's track three hours before the NHC.  It proved to be an active year for Hurricanes, as Hurricane Frances and Hurricane Jeanne passed through in the following weeks, giving Terry more time to further his skills at continuous hurricane coverage. Hurricane Hilda was a strong Category 3 hurricane that was the second in a succession of three hurricanes to strike near Tampico, Mexico.  The eighth named storm of the 1955 Atlantic hurricane season, Hilda formed from a tropical wave on September 10 near the Lesser Antilles.  It quickly intensified while moving westward into a small hurricane, and it crossed over southeastern Cuba on September 13.  There, it dropped heavy rainfall and produced gusty winds that destroyed 80% of the coffee crop in Oriente Province.  In the eastern Cuban city of Baracoa, Hilda severely damaged the oldest church in the country.  Damage totaled $2 million in Cuba, and there were four deaths.  Later, the hurricane moved across the Caribbean Sea, causing light damage in the sparsely populated region of the eastern Yucatán Peninsula. The 1932 Bahamas hurricane, also known as the Great Abaco hurricane of 1932, was a large and powerful Category 5 hurricane that struck the Bahamas at peak intensity.  The fourth tropical storm and third hurricane in the 1932 Atlantic hurricane season, it was also one of two Category 5 hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean that year, the other being the 1932 Cuba hurricane.  The 1932 Bahamas hurricane originated north of the Virgin Islands, became a strong hurricane, and passed over the northern Bahamas before recurving.  The storm never made landfall on the continental United States, but its effects were felt in the northeast part of the country and in the Bahamas, especially on the Abaco Islands, where damage was very great.  As of 2016, it is one of only three Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes to make landfall in the Bahamas at that intensity, the others having occurred in 1933 and 1992. Hurricane Iris of 2001 was the most destructive hurricane in Belize since Hurricane Hattie in 1961.  Iris was the second-strongest storm of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season, behind Hurricane Michelle.  It was the ninth named storm, fifth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the year, forming from a tropical wave on October 4 just southeast of Barbados.  It moved westward through the Caribbean, intensifying into a tropical storm on October 5 south of Puerto Rico and into a hurricane the following day.  While passing south of the Dominican Republic, Iris dropped heavy rainfall that caused landslides, killing eight people.  Later, the hurricane passed south of Jamaica, where it destroyed two houses.  On reaching the western Caribbean Sea, Iris rapidly intensified into a Category 4 on the Saffir–Simpson scale.  A small hurricane with an eye of only 7 mi (11 km) in diameter, Iris reached peak winds of 145 mph (230 km/h) before making landfall in southern Belize near Monkey River Town on October 9.  The hurricane quickly dissipated over Central America, although its remnants contributed to the formation of Tropical Storm Manuel in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Hurricane Paula was a small hurricane that struck Honduras and Cuba in October 2010.  The eighteenth tropical cyclone, sixteenth named storm, and ninth hurricane of the season, Paula developed from a low pressure area over the southwestern Caribbean Sea on October 11.  Moving northwestward, it slowly organized and was upgraded to a tropical storm shortly thereafter.  Around midday on October 11, Paula made landfall near Cabo Gracias a Dios at the border of Honduras and Nicaragua.  In northeastern Honduras, strong winds destroyed several homes, while rainfall destroyed a few roads and dozens of buildings, include a school and a police station.  Favorable conditions such as low wind shear and warm sea surface temperatures allowed Paula to reach hurricane status early on October 12.  Further intensification occurred, and the storm peaked with winds of 105 mph (165 km/h) while curving northward on October 13. The 1991 Perfect Storm, also known as The No-Name Storm (especially in the years immediately after it took place) and the Halloween Gale, was a nor'easter that absorbed Hurricane Grace and ultimately evolved back into a small unnamed hurricane late in its life cycle.  The initial area of low pressure developed off Atlantic Canada on October 29.  Forced southward by a ridge to its north, it reached its peak intensity as a large and powerful cyclone.  The storm lashed the east coast of the United States with high waves and coastal flooding before turning to the southwest and weakening.  Moving over warmer waters, the system transitioned into a subtropical cyclone before becoming a tropical storm.  It executed a loop off the Mid-Atlantic states and turned toward the northeast.  On November 1 the system evolved into a full-fledged hurricane with peak winds of 75 miles per hour (120 km/h), although the National Hurricane Center left it unnamed to avoid confusion amid media interest in the predecessor extratropical storm.  It later received the name "the Perfect Storm" (playing off the common expression) after a conversation between Boston National Weather Service forecaster Robert Case and author Sebastian Junger.  The system was the fourth hurricane and final tropical cyclone in the 1991 Atlantic hurricane season.  The tropical system weakened, striking Nova Scotia as a tropical storm before dissipating. The 1998 Atlantic hurricane season was one of the deadliest and costliest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record, featuring the highest number of storm-related fatalities in over 200 years.  It officially began on June 1 and ended on November 30, dates which conventionally delimit the period during which most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic Ocean.  The first tropical cyclone, Tropical Storm Alex, developed on July 27, and the season's final storm, Hurricane Nicole, became extratropical on December 1.  The strongest storm, Mitch, was tied with Hurricane Dean for the seventh most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded.  Mitch is also the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in recorded history.  The system dropped tremendous amounts of rainfall in Central America, causing 19,000 confirmed deaths and at least $6.2 billion (1998 USD) in damage.  The season was the first since Hurricane Andrew in the 1992 season to feature a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale.
Answer: Hurricane Grace