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The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active on record in terms of number of tropical cyclones, until surpassed by the 2020 season. It is the second-costliest hurricane season, just behind the 2017 season. It featured 28 [1] tropical or subtropical storms.
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]
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.
The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history. The season saw a record twenty-eight tropical or subtropical storms of which a record four storms achieved Category 5 status. Officially beginning on June 1 2005, and lasting until November 30, the 2005 season persisted into January 2006 due to ...
Hurricane Rita was the most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Gulf of Mexico and the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded. Part of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which included three of the ten most intense Atlantic hurricanes in terms of barometric pressure ever recorded (along with Wilma and Katrina), Rita was the seventeenth named storm, tenth ...
The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history, shattering previous records on repeated occasions. The impact of the season was widespread and ruinous with at least 2,048 deaths and record damages of over $100 billion USD, with the damage surpassed only by the 2017 season.
At the time, it was thought that Alpha was the 22nd storm of the season, and so was the storm which broke the record for most storms in a single Atlantic hurricane season set in 1933. [21] However post-season analysis revealed that there was also a previously unnoticed subtropical storm on October 4, [22] which made Alpha the 23rd storm of the ...
Tropical Storm Zeta was a very late-developing tropical storm that formed in the central Atlantic Ocean during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, one month after the season's official end. Becoming a tropical depression on December 30, and intensifying the following day into the season's 28th storm (including one unnamed subtropical storm ...