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This list of West Africa hurricanes includes all Atlantic Ocean tropical cyclones that have made landfall on, or directly affected, the Atlantic coast of West Africa or its surrounding islands: the Cape Verde Islands and the Canary Islands. Such cyclones seldom occur as easterly winds carry the storms away from land, and most Atlantic storms ...
Name System dates Duration Sustained wind speeds Pressure Land areas affected Deaths Damage (USD) Refs Unnamed: January 1 – 10, 1967: Not Specified: Not Specified: 996 hPa (29.41 inHg) [3] Unnamed: October 20 – 21, 1967: Not Specified: Not Specified: 998 hPa (29.47 inHg) [3] Unnamed: September 10 – 14, 1968: Not Specified: Not Specified ...
This category contains the sub-articles comprising the list of named storms. Pages in category "Lists of tropical cyclones by name" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
[48] [49] Four sets of tropical cyclone names are rotated annually with typhoon names stricken from the list should they do more than 1 billion pesos worth of damage to the Philippines and/or cause 300 or more deaths. [50] [51] Should the list of names for a given year prove insufficient, names are taken from an auxiliary list. [50]
Tropical cyclones are named to avoid confusion with the public and streamline communications, as more than one tropical cyclone can exist at a time. Names are drawn in order from predetermined lists, [1] and are usually assigned to tropical cyclones with one-, three- or ten-minute windspeeds of more than 65 km/h (40 mph). However, standards ...
It was the deadliest tropical cyclone on record in Somalia, killing more than 162 people. The depression also destroyed over 1,000 houses, displaced tends of thousands of nomads, and killed millions of livestock. [11] [12] [13] November 2, 2015 - Cyclone Chapala entered the Gulf of Aden as the strongest tropical cyclone on record. [14]
The following is a list of tropical cyclones by year. Since the year 957, there have been at least 12,791 recorded tropical and subtropical cyclones in the Atlantic, Pacific, and [oceanic Ocean|Indian]] Oceans, which are known as basins. Collectively, tropical cyclones caused more than US$1.2 trillion in damage, unadjusted for inflation, and ...
A replacement name is then submitted to the committee concerned and voted upon, but these names can be rejected and replaced with another name for various reasons: these reasons include the spelling and pronunciation of the name, the similarity to the name of a recent tropical cyclone or on another list of names, and the length of the name for ...