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Hurricane Catarina was an extraordinarily rare hurricane-strength tropical cyclone, forming in the southern Atlantic Ocean in March 2004. [13] Just after becoming a hurricane, it hit the southern coast of Brazil in the state of Santa Catarina on the evening of 28 March, with winds up to 140 kilometres per hour (87 mph) making it a Category 1 ...
Track map of all North Atlantic tropical cyclones affecting South America from 1850 to 2005 [needs update] A South American hurricane is a tropical cyclone that affects the continent of South America or its countries. The continent is rarely affected by tropical cyclones, though most storms to hit the area are formed in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Tropical depressions and tropical storms occur occasionally in the south Atlantic, and the only full-blown tropical cyclones on record were the Angola tropical storm in 1991, Hurricane Catarina in 2004, Tropical Storm Anita in 2010, Tropical Storm Iba in 2019, Tropical Storm 01Q in 2021 and Tropical Storm Akará in 2024. The south Atlantic ...
Tropical Storm Kirk formed in the Atlantic Monday. ... name of the 2024 hurricane season is a tropical wave south of Cabo Verde Islands, west of Africa. ... outlook map indicate "areas where a ...
A potential tropical cyclone off the coast of the Carolinas served as the most immediate threat to U.S. residents, with the storm about 125 miles east, southeast of Charleston, South Carolina as ...
The National Hurricane Center’s Sunday afternoon Atlantic tropical weather update puts a high “chance of cyclone formation” on both weather systems in the Atlantic Ocean with this action ...
Tropical cyclones are very rare in the South Atlantic (although occasional examples do occur) due to consistently strong wind shear and a weak Intertropical Convergence Zone. In contrast, the African easterly jet and areas of atmospheric instability give rise to cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea.
The National Hurricane Center was tracking two tropical waves on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, one in the Gulf of Mexico, another in the tropical Atlantic Ocean.