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The 2014 Atlantic hurricane season was an event in the annual hurricane season in the north Atlantic Ocean.It featured below-average tropical cyclone activity, [nb 1] with the fewest named storms since the 1997 season. [2]
August 13 – Hurricane Charley struck southwestern Florida as a Category 4 hurricane, the strongest landfall in the continental United States since Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Its eye crossed Cayo Costa and later the mainland at Punta Gorda, before crossing the state with much of its intensity retained. A wind gust of 173 mph (278 km/h) was ...
The strongest tropical cyclone to make landfall on the state was the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, which crossed the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 millibars (26.3 inHg); it is also the strongest hurricane on record to strike the United States. Out of the ten most intense landfalling United States hurricanes, four struck Florida at peak strength.
Hurricane Helene reached Florida's Gulf Coast Thursday as a Category 4 hurricane and has now weakened into a tropical depression. ... 2024 at 11:53 AM. ... Helene tracker: See projected path ...
Image from satellite shows former Hurricane and then Tropical Storm Helene as of 5:30 a.m. EDT on Sept. 27, 2024, after it moved rapidly inland from Florida and was mostly over Georgia. / Credit ...
The National Hurricane Center is tracking three systems that could develop over the next week, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. NHC tracking system with 40% chance of formation near Gulf of Mexico
The 2014 Atlantic hurricane season was a well below-average hurricane season in terms of named storms while the number of hurricanes and major hurricanes, [nb 1] were overall average. It produced nine tropical cyclones , eight of which became named storms; six storms became hurricanes and two intensified further into major hurricanes. [ 2 ]
No subtropical or tropical development occurred in the Atlantic prior to the start of the season, and the season got off to the slowest start since 2014. Even so, hurricane researchers predicted an above-normal number of named storms this year. [nb 1] [3]