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The Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 2014. [12] It was a below average season in which nine tropical cyclones formed. Eight of the nine designated cyclones attained tropical storm status, the fewest since the 1997 Atlantic hurricane season. [17] Of the eight tropical storms, six reached at least Category 1 hurricane intensity.
Hurricane Gonzalo. Hurricane Gonzalo was the second tropical cyclone, after Hurricane Fay, to directly strike the island of Bermuda in a one-week time frame in October 2014, and was the first Category 4 Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Ophelia in 2011. At the time, it was the strongest hurricane in the Atlantic since Igor in 2010. [ 1 ]
The strongest of these tropical cyclones was Typhoon Vongfong, which strengthened to a minimum barometric pressure of 900 mbar (hPa; 26.58 inHg) before striking the east coast of Japan. The costliest and deadliest tropical cyclone in 2014 was Typhoon Rammasun, which struck China in July, causing US$8.08 billion in damage.
Timeline of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season. The 2014 Atlantic hurricane season was an event in the annual hurricane season in the north Atlantic Ocean. It featured below-average tropical cyclone activity, [nb 1] with the fewest named storms since the 1997 season. [2] The season officially began on June 1, 2014 and ended on November 30, 2014.
The history of Atlantic tropical cyclone warnings details the progress of tropical cyclone warnings in the North Atlantic Ocean. The first service was set up in the 1870s from Cuba with the work of Father Benito Viñes. After his death, hurricane warning services were assumed by the US Army Signal Corps and United States Weather Bureau over the ...
With about two months remaining in the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, 10 named storms have formed — of which six have developed into hurricanes. NHC tracking Hurricane Isaac, Tropical Storm ...
Not to be confused with List of storms named Sandra or List of storms named Santi. Hurricane Sandy (unofficially referred to as Superstorm Sandy) [ 1 ][ 2 ] was an extremely large and devastating tropical cyclone which ravaged the Caribbean and the coastal Mid-Atlantic region of the United States in late October 2012.
The system has maximum sustained winds near 45 mph with higher gusts, and "steady strengthening is forecast," according to the center. The storm is likely to become a hurricane by Tuesday night or ...