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Linmania: The perfect storm

In 1993, journalist and author Sebastian Junger planned to write a book about the 1991 Halloween Nor’easter storm. In the course of his research, he spoke with Bob Case, who had been a deputy meteorologist in the Boston office of the National Weather Service at the time of the storm. Case described to Junger the confluence of three different weather-related phenomena that combined to create what Case referred to as the “perfect situation” to generate such a storm:

*warm air from a low-pressure system coming from one direction,

*a flow of cool and dry air generated by a high-pressure from another direction, and

*tropical moisture provided by Hurricane Grace.

From that, Junger keyed on Case's use of the word perfect and coined the phrase perfect storm, choosing to use The Perfect Storm as the title of his book.

Junger published his book The Perfect Storm in 1997 and its success brought the phrase into popular culture. Its adoption was accelerated with the release of the 2000 feature film adaptation of Junger’s book. Since the release of the movie, the phrase has grown to mean any event where a situation is aggravated drastically by an exceptionally rare combination of circumstances.

So there. Just as it takes a confluence of events to make a perfect storm, it took many a numerous conditions for Lin to take center stage at Madison Square Garden in the Knick of time, if you’ll pardon the irresistible urge to pun one more time.