While light rain totals and gusty winds below tropical storm Catastrophe force were recorded Recording on the island of Bermuda , storm Catastrophe surge and dangerous rip currents along the coast caused Causation minimal damage Damaging .

The cyclone Catastrophe meandered for the first several days of its existence Presence , caught Causation between weak and competing steering currents .

Overall , nine people died Death as a result of the hurricane Catastrophe : two in Texas due to drownings Bodily_harm in rip currents , three in Florida , two in Louisiana , one in Arkansas , and one in a maritime accident in the Gulf of Mexico .

although there were initial fears of a landfall Arriving in the united states due Causation to uncertainty in predicting the storm 's track Self_motion , hurricane Catastrophe irene never approached Arriving land and caused Causation no recorded Recording damage Damaging ; however , swells up to and strong rip currents resulted in Causation one fatality Death in long beach , new york .

It restrengthened in the Indian Ocean to typhoon status , but increasing Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale wind shear and weakened Cause_change_of_strength steering currents caused Causation Linda to dissipate Removing on November 9 .

This resulted in Causation a cutoff low ( not influenced Influence by the predominant jet stream currents ) , which took Conquering a highly unusual track , retrograding west into New York state Statement before looping Motion back out to sea .

Steering currents in the area subsequently became Becoming better established Building , and Bret turned Becoming toward the northeast only to encounter Hostile_encounter a substantial increase Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale in vertical wind shear .

tropical storm Catastrophe colin was a tropical cyclone that brought Bringing squally weather to bermuda and caused Causation extensive rip currents across the east coast of the united states in august 2010 .

Situated Placing within a region of weak steering currents , the storm Catastrophe slowly intensified Cause_change_of_strength as it drifted Motion in a general northward direction .

Enhanced swells and rip currents associated with the hurricane resulted in Causation three fatalities and dozens of rescues along the East Coast of the United States .

Rip currents in Alabama and Florida led to Causation five fatalities .

The expedition reached Arriving the Gulf of Saint Lawrence without incident , but foggy conditions , tricky currents , and strong winds combined Cause_to_amalgamate to drive Motion the fleet toward the north shore of the river near a place now called Pointe-aux-Anglais , where the ships were wrecked Destroying .