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The 2005 season featured 15 hurricanes, surpassing the previous record of 12, set in 1969. Of the 15 hurricanes, 5 formed in September, with the season becoming only the sixth to feature 5 in that month. [17] The 2005 season also featured a record seven major hurricanes, one more than the previous record, set in 1926, 1933, 1950, 1996, and 2004 ...
The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was an event in the annual tropical cyclone season in the north Atlantic Ocean.It was the second most active Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history, and the most extreme (i.e. produced the highest accumulated cyclone energy (ACE)) in the satellite era. [1]
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The 2005 tropical cyclone season was marked by record-breaking activity, particularly in the North Atlantic, which saw 28 named storms, 15 hurricanes, and 7 major hurricanes, including Hurricane Katrina. This was driven by unusually warm sea surface temperatures, low wind shear, and favorable atmospheric pressure patterns.
This map shows the tracks of all tropical cyclones which formed worldwide from 1985 to 2005. The map was created with the WPTC track map generator by Nilfanion.. The track map generator program generates a track map from the NHC HURDAT data, [A 1] or from Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecast (ATCF) B-deck data files (commonly referred to as "best track" files).
The final (28th) storm of the record breaking 2005 hurricane season - Zeta - also lasted into the new year of 2006, but as a tropical storm over the central Atlantic Ocean.
Every year included at least one tropical cyclone affecting the state. During the 2004 season, more than one out of every five houses in the state received damage. [1] After Wilma in 2005, it would be 11 years until another hurricane would strike the state, Hermine in 2016.
The most intense storm of the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season, Camille slammed into Mississippi just before midnight on Aug. 17. The hurricane produced a peak storm surge of 24 feet and flattened ...