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Hurricane Beryl, as the earliest forming Category 5 hurricane on record, moving over the eastern Caribbean Sea early on July 2, 2024. A Category 5 Atlantic hurricane is a tropical cyclone that reaches Category 5 intensity on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale, within the Atlantic Ocean to the north of the equator.
Only season with a Category 5 hurricane in November, which was the longest lasting category 5, at 3.6 days. First season to have multiple (more than one) Category 5 hurricanes. 1933: 20 11 6 258.57 651 $86.6M 5 "Tampico" 4 "Chesapeake–Potomac" 5 "Cuba–Brownsville" 4 "Treasure Coast" 4 "Outer Banks" 5 "Tampico"
The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season was the fourth-most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 20 named storms forming, [nb 1] tied with 1933. Among them, 7 became hurricanes, with 3 reaching major hurricane strength. [nb 2] The season also had an above‑normal accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) rating of 148, despite the presence of the ...
Powerful Hurricane Beryl was the 2024 Atlantic season's first hurricane and the earliest storm on record to reach the strongest possible ranking of Category 5, before weakening to Category 4 as it ...
Hurricane Beryl has strengthened into a Category 5 Atlantic hurricane — the earliest on record — as it powers across the Caribbean after bringing devastation to the Windward Islands, where at ...
The storm’s force is just the second time ever that an Atlantic hurricane has hit Category 5 ... Caribbean. Around 8 p.m., hurricane-force winds extended 40 miles from the center, and tropical ...
The season became only the sixth to feature at least two Category 5 hurricanes, after 1932, 1933, 1961, 2005, and 2007. [41] With Maria becoming the first Category 5 hurricane on record to strike Dominica, [26] 2017 also became the only season other than 2007 to have at least two cyclones make landfall at Category 5 intensity. [41]
July 2, 2024 at 7:20 AM. Hurricane Beryl is barreling towards Jamaica as a Category 5 storm after making landfall in the Windward Islands, bringing devastating winds and storm surges that have ...