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Preceding Wilma is Hurricane Gilbert, which had also held the record for most intense Atlantic hurricane for 17 years. [62] The 1935 Labor Day hurricane, with a pressure of 892 mbar (hPa; 26.34 inHg), is the third strongest Atlantic hurricane and the strongest documented tropical cyclone prior to 1950. [11]
Hurricane/Typhoon John in the northeast and northwest Pacific Ocean [21] [22] Longest lasting Category 4 or 5 winds: 8.25 consecutive days: August 24, 2006 – September 2, 2006: Hurricane/Typhoon Ioke in the northeast and northwest Pacific Ocean [23] Longest lasting Category 5 winds β: 5.50 consecutive days: September 9, 1961 – September 14 ...
The 1899 San Ciríaco hurricane, also known as the 1899 Puerto Rico Hurricane or The Great Bahamas Hurricane of 1899, was the longest-lived Atlantic hurricane on record, and the third-longest-lived tropical cyclone globally on record (in terms of tropical duration) after 1994's Hurricane John in the Pacific Ocean and 2023's Cyclone Freddy in the southern Indian Ocean.
The November 1932 Cuba hurricane and Hurricane Irma in 2007 spent the longest combined time at Category 5 strength ... The most intense storm of the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season, Camille slammed ...
It's the sixth hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, but for people in the U.S. it's perhaps the least worrisome one. Saturday news: Live updates on Helene deaths, damage
When Hurricane Idalia slammed into Florida Wednesday morning, it became the eighth major hurricane to hit the Gulf Coast in the last six years. And it may not be the last; Atlantic hurricane ...
The largest hurricane (in gale diameter winds) on record to form in the North Atlantic was Hurricane Sandy (2012) with a gale diameter of 870 miles (1,400 km). [52] The longest-lasting hurricane was the 1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, which lasted for 27 days and 18 hours as a tropical cyclone. [53]
Hurricane Ginger was the second longest-lasting Atlantic hurricane on record. The eighth tropical cyclone and fifth hurricane of the 1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Ginger spent 27.25 days as a tropical cyclone, lasting from September 6 to October 3. Twenty of those days (September 11 – September 30), Ginger was classified as a hurricane.