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2017 Atlantic Hurricane storm tracks with IMERG precipitation and GOES clouds (from August 10 to September 23) August 31 00:00 UTC (7:00 p.m. CDT, August 30) at 31°18′N 92°36′W / 31.3°N 92.6°W / 31.3; -92.6 ( Tropical Storm Harvey weakens to a tropical depression ) – Tropical Storm Harvey weakens to a tropical ...
September 2017 featured more ACE than any month in recorded history in the Atlantic (surpassing September 2004), [50] and September 8 alone produced more ACE than any other day on record. [26] Overall, September's ACE value represented activity about three-and-a-half times more active than the 1981–2010 average for the month.
[272] [273] Irma is second to the 1935 Labor Day hurricane and Hurricane Dorian of 2019 as the strongest landfalling cyclone on record in the Atlantic basin, and is the first hurricane to make landfall anywhere in the Atlantic at Category 5 status since Felix in 2007. [274]
When weather historians and meteorologists think of the most severe hurricane seasons on record, those that come to mind include the 2004 and 2005 seasons, which featured the deadly Category 5 ...
Three simultaneous hurricanes active on September 8, 2017 – with Katia (left), Irma (center), and Jose (right).All three were threatening land at the time. Taken by various of satellites throughout 2017, these are the 19 tropical cyclones that reached at least Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale during that year, from Enawo in March to Lan in October (though Debbie is out of order).
The November 1932 Cuba hurricane and Hurricane Irma in 2007 spent the longest combined time at Category 5 strength at 78 and ... 1935 Labor Day Hurricane. ... on Oct. 10 with peak winds of 160 mph ...
Irma was the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean and one of the five most forceful storms to hit the Atlantic basin in 82 years, according to the NHC.
September 10 – Hurricane Irma made landfall on Cudjoe Key as a Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 130 mph (210 km/h), followed hours later by a second landfall on Marco Island with winds of 115 mph (185 km/h). The hurricane caused or contributed to at least 87 deaths in the state, with possibly over 400 deaths related to the storm.