WeatherWhys for October 8,2014 from accuweather.com

While the Atlantic Basin is currently quiet, numerous infamous hurricanes have formed in October. The most recent was Hurricane Sandy in late October 2012. Sandy was directly responsible for at least 147 deaths across the Atlantic Basin. That number includes 72 deaths in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions of the United States, which is the greatest number of U.S. direct deaths related to a tropical cyclone outside of the Southern states since Hurricane Agnes in 1972.