Hurricane Beth was a short-lived tropical cyclone which traveled from Florida to Nova Scotia in the middle of August 1971.

On August 14, the depression was declared a tropical storm and assigned the name Beth following recent data from a reconnaissance aircraft.

[1][2] Several hundred miles off the U.S. East Coast, Beth accelerated somewhat – reaching forward speeds of up to 19 mph (31 km/h) as it resumed a northeastward course.

It continued to mature as it passed east of Cape Cod, achieving peak winds of 85 mph (137 km/h) and a pressure of 977 mb (28.9 inHg).

In Halifax, bus service was disrupted by the storm, and in Antigonish, business owners closed their stores and filled sandbags to prepare.

[5] Impacted crops in the region included cereal grain, corn, and tobacco, whose inundated fields resembled vast lakes.