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Hurricane Ian winds. The top gust recorded by an NWS station was 155 miles per hour, and that burst hit the Punta Gorda airport. ... Gusts in Cape Coral reached 140 miles per hour, Carlisle said. ...
After making the trek from the Caribbean into the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the current forecast track of for Ian shows the hurricane continuing to intensify after moving over Cuba, reaching a ...
Damage in Kings Point, Florida from an EF2 tornado which was spawned by Hurricane Ian. Tropical-storm-force sustained wind speeds with hurricane-force wind gusts were observed at Key West International Airport before 22:00 UTC (18:00 EDT) the same day; [54] [55] the city of Key West subsequently recorded its third-highest storm surge since 1913 ...
An EF0 tornado in Cape Coral damaged 11 homes, leaving $103,000 in damage. [88] August 21–22 – Hurricane Bill produced waves between 5 and 6 ft (1.5 and 1.8 m) along the east coast of Florida, resulting in one fatality at New Smyrna Beach. [89] August 28 – Wave heights reached 7 ft (2.1 m) from Tropical Storm Danny off eastern Florida. [90]
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 .
Tropical storms and hurricanes originating in the Caribbean this time of the year have previously experienced a highly curved or boomerang track. Hurricane Mitch from 1998 and Tropical Storm Keith ...
According to the hurricane center's latest analysis, the swath of coast with locations that could see a 1 in 10 chance of a storm surge greater than 9 feet stretches along the entire coast from ...
Hurricane Irma was the costliest tropical cyclone in the history of the U.S. state of Florida, before being surpassed by Hurricane Ian in 2022. Irma also was the first major hurricane [nb 1] to strike the state since Wilma in 2005 and the first Category 4 hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Charley in 2004.