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June 1. The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season officially begins. [3]June 5. Tropical Storm Alex at peak intensity west of Bermuda on June 5. 00:00 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT, June 4) at – Tropical Storm Alex forms from a low-pressure system about 85 mi (140 km) north of Grand Bahama Island
The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season was a destructive and deadly Atlantic hurricane season.Despite having an average number of named storms, [nb 1] it became the third-costliest Atlantic hurricane season on record, behind only 2017 and 2005, mostly due to Hurricane Ian.
October 3, 2002 – Hurricane Lili made landfall on the morning of October 3 near Intracoastal City, as a weakening category 1 hurricane. Wind gusts reaching 120 mph (190 km/h), coupled with over 6 inches (150 mm) of rainfall and a storm surge of 12 feet (3.7 m) caused over $790 million (2002 USD) in damage to Louisiana.
An off-season Atlantic hurricane is a tropical or subtropical cyclone that existed in the Atlantic basin outside of the official Atlantic hurricane season. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration currently defines the season as occurring between June 1 and November 30 each calendar year, which is when 97% of all Atlantic tropical ...
Based on NOAA data on hurricane landfalls on the East and Gulf coasts since 1850, Sept. 16 is the most likely calendar day for a hurricane to hit the United States. Ten hurricanes have roared ...
The costliest hurricanes were Katrina in 2005 and Harvey in 2017, both with uninflated damage totals amounting to US$125 billion. Of the 41 Atlantic hurricanes with damages exceeding $1.01 billion after accounting for inflation (2017 dollars), 20 have occurred after the year 2000, though this list does not include 2018's Michael nor Florence.
Hurricane Nicole was a sprawling late-season Category 1 hurricane in November 2022. The fourteenth named storm and eighth hurricane of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season , Nicole formed as a subtropical cyclone on November 7, from a non-tropical area of low pressure near the Greater Antilles , and transitioned into a tropical cyclone the next day.
A major hurricane is a Category 3 or higher, the maximum sustained winds of at least 111 mph. North Carolina didn't make the top 5. Storms from 1880 to 2020 North Carolina ranked number 2 with 159 ...