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October 10 — Hurricane Michael made landfall at 17:30 UTC near Mexico Beach, Florida with maximum sustained winds of 160 mph (255 km/h), making it the strongest hurricane on record to strike the Florida panhandle, and the first Category 5 hurricane to hit the United States since Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
Collectively this storm, the 1926 Miami hurricane, and the 1928 hurricane claimed over 3,280 lives in Florida—three of the state's 10 most impactful weather events in the 20th century; the 1926 storm would be the costliest of any U.S. hurricane in present monetary values.
Hurricane Ian was a devastating tropical cyclone which was the third costliest weather disaster on record worldwide. It was also the deadliest hurricane to strike the state of Florida since the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, and the strongest hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Michael in 2018.
That 155 mile per hour gust was the strongest NWS recorded Wednesday. Gusts in Cape Coral reached 140 miles per hour, Carlisle said. Carlisle said NWS will have sustained wind information after ...
Motorists should be prepared for inundated roads from torrential rain in cities such as Cape Coral, Fort Myers, Naples, Miami, Tampa, Orlando and Fort Lauderdale.
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Hurricane Andrew causes $25.5 billion in damage (1992 USD, $39.2 billion 2008 USD) in south Florida and 15 direct deaths. At the time, Andrew was the costliest North Atlantic hurricane in the history of the United States, though has since dropped to eighth after Hurricanes Katrina , Ike , Irma , Maria , Sandy , Ida and Harvey .
Cape Coral, Florida, braced for impact as the National Hurricane Center said Hurricane Ian’s eyewall began to move ashore on Wednesday, September 28.The National Weather Service alerted ...