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Hurricane Beta was a compact and intense tropical cyclone that impacted the southwestern Caribbean in late October 2005. Beta was the twenty-fourth tropical storm, fourteenth hurricane , and seventh and final major hurricane of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season .
Tropical Storm Beta was a tropical cyclone that brought heavy rainfall, flooding, and severe weather to the Southeastern United States in September 2020. The twenty-fourth tropical depression and twenty-third named storm of the record-breaking 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, Beta originally formed from a trough of low pressure that developed in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico on September 10.
A tropical cyclone is the generic term for a warm-cored, non-frontal synoptic-scale low-pressure system over tropical or subtropical waters around the world. [4] [5] The systems generally have a well-defined center which is surrounded by deep atmospheric convection and a closed wind circulation at the surface. [4]
The storm strengthened into a hurricane on October 29 and reached major hurricane intensity on October 30, with sustained winds around 115 mph (185 km/h). However, Beta weakened to a Category 2 prior to landfall in Nicaragua.
2005 - Hurricane Beta was a major hurricane that impacted central Nicaragua and made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane causing over 6 million dollars in damage along with 6 deaths. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] 2007 - Hurricane Felix was a major hurricane that struck Central America and made landfall just south of the border between Nicaragua and Honduras ...
The name Beta has been used for two tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean. Hurricane Beta (2005), Category 3 hurricane that made landfall in Nicaragua Tropical Storm Beta (2020) , tropical storm that made landfall in Texas
October 6, 2005 - The remnants of Hurricane Stan move over Honduras, causing heavy rainfall. More than 2,475 homes were destroyed and seven people were killed. [7] October 30, 2005 - The outer bands and remnants of Hurricane Beta drop torrential rainfall over Honduras, peaking at 21.82 inches (554 millimeters). An estimated 60,483 people in ...
Hurricane Zeta was a late-season tropical cyclone in 2020 that made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula and then in southeastern Louisiana, the latest on record to do so at such strength in the United States.