Claim: While such a storm does not happen in New England anymore, it happened again there in 1675, with elderly eyewitnesses comparing it to the 1635 storm.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: The 1938 New England Hurricane (also referred to as the Great New England Hurricane, Long Island Express, and Yankee Clipper) was one of the deadliest and most destructive tropical cyclones to strike Long Island, New York, and New England.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: It remains the most powerful and deadliest hurricane in recorded New England history, perhaps eclipsed in landfall intensity only by the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: Readings of 976.0 millibars (28.82 inHg) were recorded in Tallahassee, Florida, and even lower readings of 960.0 millibars (28.35 inHg) were observed in New England.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: Winter Storm naming in the United States goes back to the 1700s when a snowstorm dubbed "The Great Snow of 1717" hit the colonies of New England in 1717.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: Notable ice storms include an El Niño-related North American ice storm of 1998 that affected much of eastern Canada, including Montreal and Ottawa, as well as upstate New York and part of New England.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Hurricane Earl was the first major hurricane to threaten New England since Hurricane Bob in 1991.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The storm was the last storm to strike the region with a Regional Snowfall Index rating of Category 5, ``Extreme'' intensity, until roughly 38 years later, when another crippling and historic blizzard struck the Northeast, mainly to the south, where numerous records were broken, more than the Blizzard of 1978 broke.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: "700 yr sedimentary record of intense hurricane landfalls in southern New England".

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The 1775 Newfoundland hurricane, not to be confused with the Independence Hurricane, was a hurricane that hit the Colony of Newfoundland on September 12, 1775.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962, a strong nor'easter which battered the East Coast of the United States in 1962

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The 1940 New England hurricane moved off of the U.S. East Coast and Atlantic Canada in August and September 1940, producing strong winds and torrential rainfall.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Many of the most memorable and devastating storms in eastern North America and western Europe, popularly known as superstorms, have been winter cyclonic storms, though sometimes occurring in late fall or early spring, that generate near-hurricane-force winds and often large amounts of snowfall.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Category : Blizzards in the United States