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At its peak, Hurricane Wilma's eye contracted to a record minimum diameter of 2.3 mi (3.7 km). In the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Wilma was the twenty-second storm, thirteenth hurricane, sixth major hurricane, [nb 1] fourth Category 5 hurricane, and the second costliest in Mexican history. Its origins came from a tropical ...
Wilma weakened over the Yucatán Peninsula, and reached the southern Gulf of Mexico before accelerating northeastward. Despite increasing amounts of vertical wind shear, the hurricane re-strengthened to hit Cape Romano, Florida, as a major hurricane. Wilma weakened as it quickly crossed the state, and entered the Atlantic Ocean near Jupiter ...
A forecast track for Hurricane Wilma on October 19, which indicated a landfall in Florida on October 22. In actuality, Wilma struck Florida on October 24. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) issued many tropical cyclone warnings and watches in anticipation of Wilma.
NOAA has an update and a prediction on storms ‘Not out of the woods yet’ with storm season. ... Cat 3 Hurricane Wilma in 2005 and Cat 5 Hurricane Michael in 2018 were October storms.
It became the first Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Wilma to reach a pressure below 900 mb (26.58 inHg) and the second-most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded over the Gulf of Mexico, only after Hurricane Rita. Later in the month, two tropical cyclones formed on October 19.
That's up from a shocking 897 mb on Monday, which made it the lowest pressure for an Atlantic hurricane since 2005's Wilma. Since 1979, only three Atlantic basin storms have had pressures lower ...
The hurricane re-flooded New Orleans (though to a far less degree than Katrina), and caused about $18.5 billion in damage. [38] Wilma caused about $19 billion in damage when it moved across southern Florida in October. The hurricane contributed to 30 deaths, five of whom were killed directly by the storm. [39] [40]
The forecast for Palm Beach County, home of Mar-a-Lago, is milder. The National Weather Service in Miami has predicted the county has up to a 20% chance of seeing sustained tropical storm-force ...