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Hurricane Ian was a devastating tropical cyclone which was the third costliest weather disaster on record worldwide. It was also the deadliest hurricane to strike the state of Florida since the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, and the strongest hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Michael in 2018.
The deadliest tropical cyclone was Tropical Storm Megi, which caused 214 fatalities in the Philippines (excluding 132 others rendered missing), while the costliest was Hurricane Ian, which had an estimated damage total of at least $113.1 billion (2022 USD) after affecting Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Colombia, the western part of the Greater ...
The strongest storm by 1-minute sustained winds was Hurricane Allen. Storms which reached a minimum central pressure of 920 millibars (27.17 inHg) or less are listed. Storm information has been compiled back to 1851, though measurements were rarer until aircraft reconnaissance started in the 1940s, and inexact estimates were still predominant ...
One of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit the United States, Ian left a path of destruction in southwest Florida, trapping people in flooded homes and knocking out power to 2 million people ...
May 28–31 – Hurricane Agatha became the strongest hurricane to make landfall along the Pacific coast of Mexico in the month of May since records began in 1949. [207] On the afternoon of May 30, the hurricane made landfall just west of Puerto Ángel, Oaxaca, with winds of 105 mph (165 km/h). Agatha weakened rapidly as it moved inland, and ...
Hurricane Nicole made landfall as a Category 1 storm south of Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Nov. 10, 2022. The storm exacerbated damage from Hurricane Ian, which hit east-central Florida just six ...
The damage wrought by Hurricane Helene was especially extensive in western North Carolina, a region far from the Florida coast where the system made landfall as a Category 4 storm.
The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season was a destructive and deadly Atlantic hurricane season.Despite having an average number of named storms and below average amount of major hurricanes, [nb 1] it became the fourth-costliest Atlantic hurricane season on record, behind only 2024, 2005, and 2017, mostly due to Hurricane Ian.