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Here are more obscure but fascinating hurricane facts to keep your water-cooler conversation fresh this season. • The U.S. government routinely flies piloted planes and autonomous drones on ...
8-year-old Harrison McKenzie reports near Bluffton’s AllJoy Landing on Aug. 30, 2023 as Hurricane Idalia was coming closer to South Carolina after making landfall in Florida earlier that morning.
After the first of these cycles, the hurricane is estimated to have reached its peak strength around 00:00 UTC on September 15, with 1-minute sustained winds of 155 mph (249 km/h) and an estimated minimum central pressure of 924 mbar (hPa; 27.29 inHg). [2] Photograph of Hurricane Igor's eye on September 14 from the International Space Station
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 deadliest hurricane to make landfall on the continental United States was the Galveston Hurricane in 1900, which may have killed up to 12,000 people. [55] The most damaging hurricanes were Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Harvey of the 2005 and 2017 seasons, respectively; both caused $125 billion in damages in their respective years. [56]
Read CNN’s Fast Facts on the Atlantic hurricane season and learn about the storm season which runs from June 1 to November 30.
As Sarah Spicer was preparing to evacuate her Tampa, Florida, home ahead of Hurricane Helene, she said she remembers fearing the worst not only for her home, but also her 8-year-old daughter's ...
Storm path of Cyclone Mahina, 1899. Tropical Cyclone Mahina struck Australia on 4 March 1899, [4] with a likely minimum central pressure of 880 hectopascals (26 inHg). [5] [1] Mahina ranks among the most intense cyclones ever observed in the Southern Hemisphere and almost certainly as the most intense cyclone ever observed off the Eastern states of Australia in recorded history.