hurricanes

     

Effects Watches an warnings Storm surge - Notable storms Retired names (Atlantic - Eastern Pacific - Western Pacific)

Trivia about hurricanes

  • A change of procedure in 1979 led to 3 of these being named Bob, David & Frederic
  • After 1979 some of these powerful Atlantic storms were given male names too
  • In 1995, 11 tropical storms in the Atlantic strengthened to these, the most in one year since 1969
  • On the Beaufort scale, winds range from 0 for calm to 12 to 17 for these powerful storms
  • These phenomena are also known as tropical cyclones
  • It's the nickname of the sports teams at the University of Miami
  • 1997 names for these including Ana, Bill & Claudette, will be used again in 2003
  • Sept. 4, 2007 was the first time that 2 of these, Henriette & Felix, made landfall on the same day
  • The seemingly relentless series of these through Florida in 2004 included Charley, Frances, Ivan & Jeanne
  • "In Hertford, Hereford & Hampshire" these windy storms "hardly ever happen"
  • In 1953 meteorologists began assigning female names to these
  • The University of Miami football team shares its name with these dreaded local events
  • In 1992 two of these weather phenomena named Iniki & Andrew left survivors cleaning up from Hawaii to Florida
  • Tropical Storms