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Satellite loop of Hurricane Matthew striking eastern Cuba. September 9, 2017 - Hurricane Irma made landfall near Cayo Romano along Cuba's northern coast with winds of 165 mph (270 km/h). This made Irma the first Category 5 hurricane to strike Cuba since 1924. The hurricane weakened to a Category 2 while it moved along the country's northern coast.
1935 Cuba hurricane; 1944 Cuba–Florida hurricane; 1946 Florida hurricane; 1948 Miami hurricane; A. Hurricane Abby (1968) Hurricane Alberto (1982) Tropical Storm ...
The 10 costliest Atlantic hurricanes as of January 2023.. As of November 2024, there have been 1,745 tropical cyclones of at least tropical storm intensity, 971 at hurricane intensity, and 338 at major hurricane intensity within the Atlantic Ocean since 1851, the first Atlantic hurricane season to be included in the official Atlantic tropical cyclone record. [1]
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Rafael would see "steady or rapid intensification" before plowing across western Cuba with maximum predicted winds of up to 100 mph (160 kph) by Wednesday.
Though eastern Cuba remains mostly without power, images and videos have been slowly trickled out of the region, showing the hurricane brought new levels of devastation to Cubans already living in ...
One example is the three simultaneous hurricanes that hit Cuba in the 1840s. These hurricanes destroyed coffee crops, which made Cuban planters abandon coffee and turn to sugar production. [8] The Cuban economy, specifically the transatlantic economy, relied on routes and patterns of travel in the Atlantic for trading. [5] In Cuba in the early ...
List of Atlantic–Pacific crossover hurricanes; List of Azores hurricanes; Hurricanes in the Bahama Archipelago; List of Baja California Peninsula hurricanes; List of Barbados hurricanes; List of Bermuda hurricanes; List of Canada hurricanes. List of Newfoundland hurricanes; List of Cayman Islands hurricanes; List of Cuba hurricanes; List of ...
Tracks of all known Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes between 1851 and 2024. Within the Atlantic Ocean to the north of the equator, hurricanes are officially monitored by the United States's National Hurricane Center (NHC), however, other meteorological services, such as Météo-France, the United Kingdom's Met Office and Environment Canada also monitor the basin.