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Here are more obscure but fascinating hurricane facts to keep your water-cooler conversation fresh this season. • The U.S. government routinely flies piloted planes and autonomous drones on ...
Rumor: The government created the hurricane. Facts: Helene formed from an organized band of showers and thunderstorms in the Gulf of Mexico, the National Hurricane Center in Miami reported.
Hurricane Lee was a long-lived and intense tropical cyclone which impacted Bermuda, the Northeastern United States, and Eastern Canada in September 2023. The twelfth named storm, fourth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, Lee formed on September 5 from a tropical wave that had moved offshore from West Africa into the tropical Atlantic a few days earlier.
Hurricane Helene (/ h ɛ ˈ l iː n / ⓘ heh-LEEN) [1] was a deadly and devastating tropical cyclone that caused widespread catastrophic damage and numerous fatalities across the Southeastern United States in late September 2024.
The strongest hurricane to reach land was the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 (892 hPa). [12] The deadliest hurricane was the Great Hurricane of 1780 (22,000 fatalities). [54] The deadliest hurricane to make landfall on the continental United States was the Galveston Hurricane in 1900, which may have killed up to 12,000 people. [55]
Read CNN’s Fast Facts on the Atlantic hurricane season and learn about the storm season which runs from June 1 to November 30.
Hurricane Teddy was a large and powerful tropical cyclone that was the fifth-largest Atlantic hurricane by diameter of gale-force winds recorded. Teddy produced large swells along the coast of the Eastern United States and Atlantic Canada in September 2020 .
After the first of these cycles, the hurricane is estimated to have reached its peak strength around 00:00 UTC on September 15, with 1-minute sustained winds of 155 mph (249 km/h) and an estimated minimum central pressure of 924 mbar (hPa; 27.29 inHg). [2] Photograph of Hurricane Igor's eye on September 14 from the International Space Station