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When the U.S. Weather Bureau built a network of weather observatories in the Caribbean in 1898, these sites telegraphed weather observations at 8 a.m. daily to the bureau's regional headquarters in Havana, Cuba, during the hurricane season; this season was defined as lasting from the beginning of June through October.
The first off-season storm in the database was an 1865 storm that developed in the Caribbean Sea; an earlier documented 1863 hurricane is not part of the database. The most recent off-season system was an unnamed January subtropical storm in 2023 .
Storms frequently form in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, the tropical Atlantic Ocean, and in areas as far east as the Cape Verde Islands, creating Cape Verde-type hurricanes. Systems may also strengthen over the Gulf Stream off the coast of the eastern United States wherever water temperatures exceed 26.5 °C (79.7 °F). [21]
With just under three weeks to go in the official Atlantic hurricane season, which ends on Nov. 30, vast areas of dry air and disruptive winds have shut down tropical activity over much of the basin.
Typically, the areas of focus late in the season are the Caribbean and off the Southeast coast," said AccuWeather Lea Caribbean could spawn tropical storm as final month of hurricane season begins ...
With only a few weeks left in the official Atlantic hurricane season, which officially ends on Nov. 30, AccuWeather meteorologists are closely monitoring activity across the Caribbean Sea for late ...
[nb 3] In August, Tropical Storm Fred flooded parts of the Caribbean and Southeastern United States, resulting in roughly $1.3 billion in damage. Hurricane Grace intensified to a Category 3 major hurricane before making landfall in the Mexican state of Veracruz, causing 17 deaths and about $513 million in damage in the Greater Antilles and Mexico.
Tracks of all known Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes between 1851 and 2024. Within the Atlantic Ocean to the north of the equator, hurricanes are officially monitored by the United States's National Hurricane Center (NHC), however, other meteorological services, such as Météo-France, the United Kingdom's Met Office and Environment Canada also monitor the basin.