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Ian rapidly intensified to a Category 5 storm before making landfall at Cayo Costa, Fort Myers Beach, Fort Myers and Punta Gorda as a high-end Category 4 storm, respectively. Ian killed 72 people in Lee County (the Fort Myers area) and nine in Charlotte County (the Punta Gorda area), and brought massive storm surge to Southwestern Florida ...
Ian was the ninth named storm, fourth hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, and was the first Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic since Lorenzo in 2019. [ 6 ] Ian originated from a tropical wave that moved off the coast of West Africa and across the central tropical Atlantic towards the Windward Islands .
The hardest-hit areas were in Lee County, where catastrophic damage occurred as Ian pushed a destructive 10–15 ft (3.0–4.6 m) storm surge into Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel Island, and Bonita Springs, just south of where its eye made landfall. [72]
Two years after Hurricane Ian left almost every home and business in ruins and killed 14 people, this small barrier island dodged a bullet. Fort Myers Beach spared the worst of Milton. But some ...
Aerial footage released by the Lee County Sheriff’s Office on Friday, September 30, shows the devastation in Fort Myers Beach after Hurricane Ian swept through the area.Officials continued to ...
Killed about 200 people [26] Unnamed: 1909 October 11: Florida Keys: No Yes No 3 110 mph (180 km/h) clocked before anemometer disabled [27] Unnamed: 1910: October 17–18: Key West Fort Myers: Yes Yes No 2 Caused much flooding [28] Unnamed: 1916 July 5: Pensacola* No Yes No † Gusted to 104 mph (167 km/h) [26] Unnamed: 1916 October 18 ...
Remains of destroyed houses are seen almost one month after Hurricane Ian landfall in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, U.S., October 26, 2022. Hurricane Andrew Year : 1992
Along the coast, the hurricane produced a storm tide of 2 ft (0.61 m) at Fort Myers Beach. [13] Winds reached 72 mph (116 km/h) in Captiva. [53] Abnormally high tides were observed as far north as Homosassa in Citrus County, which reported a storm surge of at least 1 ft (0.30 m) in height. [13]