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Furthermore, two storms reached major hurricane status, [3] near the average 1950–2000 average of 2.3. [4] Collectively, the cyclones of this season caused at least 115 deaths and over $1.03 billion in damage. [5] The Atlantic hurricane season officially ended on November 30, [2] though the final tropical cyclone became extratropical on ...
The 1970 Caribbean–Azores hurricane was an unnamed Atlantic hurricane that became the wettest known tropical cyclone on record to affect the United States territory of Puerto Rico. [1] The long-lived system formed on September 24 just off the west coast of Africa, and for several days maintained a general westward track.
Tropical Storm Dorothy was the deadliest tropical cyclone of the 1970 Atlantic hurricane season. The fourth named storm and fifth tropical storm or hurricane of the season, Dorothy developed on August 17 from a tropical wave to the east of the Lesser Antilles. It tracked west-northwestward throughout its entire duration, and despite forecasts ...
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar.It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; the others were "Okeechobee" in 1928, Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992, Michael in 2018, and Yutu in 2018, which ...
The National Hurricane Center is tracking a new disturbance in the central Atlantic Ocean, ... Atlantic storm tracker ... 1960s and most of the 1970s, storm names were only female, but in 1979 ...
Radar image of Hurricane Cleo at landfall in Miami. August 27, 1964– Hurricane Cleo strikes near Miami with winds of about 105 mph (170 km/h), the first hurricane to hit the area in 14 years. Strong winds from the hurricane down many trees and power lines, with moderate to heavy building and crop damage reported near the coast.
Of those 17 storms, 11 were hurricanes, including the catastrophic Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Hurricane season officially ends Nov. 30, though storms occasionally form in December.
Tropical Storm Becky was the second tropical cyclone and named storm of the 1970 Atlantic hurricane season. Becky formed from a tropical depression that was designated on July 19. The next day it organized over the Yucatán Channel and became Tropical Storm Becky. Initially thought to have attained minimal hurricane status, Becky reached peak ...