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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 195 kilometres per hour (121 mph) making it a Category 2 ...
The Atlantic hurricane season is the period in a year, from June 1 through November 30, when tropical or subtropical cyclones are most likely to form in the North Atlantic Ocean. These dates, adopted by convention, encompass the period in each year when most tropical cyclogenesis occurs in the basin.
The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season was a very active and extremely destructive Atlantic hurricane season, the second costliest, behind only 2017, [1] inflicting at least US$232 billion in damage and 401 deaths overall.
Beryl passed south of Jamaica as a Category 4 hurricane on July 3. It made second landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula as a Category 2 hurricane on July 5. The Gulf of Mexico track of Hurricane ...
The reasons researchers predicted a busy, dangerous hurricane season this spring were record high ocean temperatures in the Atlantic and a likelihood that La Niña, a natural pattern of ...
The Atlantic hurricane season officially ended on Saturday, Nov. 30. It was a season that left its mark in the record books in many ways, including the earliest Category 5 on record and a ...
2024 Atlantic hurricane season summary map. Though the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, it got off to the slowest start since 2014. This was due to a large stationary heat dome over Central America and Mexico, as tropical cyclogenesis in June often occurs over the Gulf of Mexico and northern Caribbean Sea. [10]
The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season is coming to an end and it has been an active one overall. ... Helene brought catastrophic flooding and widespread wind damage across large swathes of the south ...