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Hurricane Rina was a small and slow-moving, but powerful tropical cyclone that caused minor impacts in the northwestern Caribbean Sea in late October 2011. The seventeenth named storm, seventh and final hurricane, and fourth and final major hurricane of the annual hurricane season, [nb 1] Rina developed from a tropical wave in the western Caribbean on October 23.
The 2011 Atlantic hurricane season was the second in a group of three very active Atlantic hurricane seasons, each with 19 named storms, tied with 1887, 1995, 2010, and 2012. The above-average activity was mostly due to a La Niña that persisted during the previous year .
The 2011 Atlantic hurricane season was an event in the annual hurricane season in the north Atlantic Ocean. It was well above average, with 19 tropical storms forming. [nb 1] Even so, it was the first season on record in which the first eight storms failed to attain hurricane strength.
This image shows Tropical Storm Philippe (bottom) and Tropical Storm Rina (top) on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023. The Leeward and Windward islands of the Caribbean appear to the far left.
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The name Rina has been used for three tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean. The name replaced Rita which was retired after the 2005 season. Hurricane Rina (2011), a powerful but small Category 3 hurricane that made landfall in the Yucatán Peninsula; Tropical Storm Rina (2017), a strong tropical storm which formed in the Central Atlantic
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Neighboring Tropical Storm Rina and Tropical Storm Philippe are continuing to interact this weekend, with Philippe expected to become a Category 1 hurricane and steer a ...