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5 August: Hurricane Allen, at more than 270 km/h, struck the south coast, especially the Cayes-Jacmel region, causing approximately 200 deaths. Atlantic hurricane season; 1984. 10 June: floods at Port-de-Paix. 1986. 1 June: Floods in the Cayes-Jacmel region. 20,000 hectares of land were flooded and several thousand homes damaged.
Severe Tropical Cyclone Wasa–Arthur was the first major tropical cyclone to affect French Polynesia and Tahiti since the 1982–83 season.The system was first noted on 3 December 1991, as a shallow tropical depression that was embedded within the monsoon trough, to the north of the Cook Island: Rarotonga.
Ahead of the 2007 hurricane season, the Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC) introduced a revised set of Hawaiian names for the Central Pacific, after they had worked with the University of Hawaii Hawaiian studies department to ensure the correct meaning and appropriate historical and cultural use of the names. [46]
March 8 – 13, 1981: Category 3 severe tropical cyclone: 120 km/h (75 mph) 970 hPa (28.64 inHg) French Polynesia: Unknown: None: Gyan: December 18 – 29, 1981: Category 4 severe tropical cyclone: 185 km/h (115 mph) 925 hPa (27.32 inHg) Vanuatu: Unknown: None: Isaac: February 27 – March 5, 1982: Category 4 severe tropical cyclone: 175 km/h ...
The next day, Beryl intensified into a hurricane at 49.3° W, [15] becoming the easternmost June hurricane in the tropical Atlantic on record, ahead of the 1933 Trinidad hurricane. [16] Reaching 53.9 °W, Beryl became the easternmost June major hurricane in the tropical Atlantic, and the first June major hurricane since Alma in 1966. [17]
An off-season Atlantic hurricane is a tropical or subtropical cyclone that existed in the Atlantic basin outside of the official Atlantic hurricane season. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration currently defines the season as occurring between June 1 and November 30 each calendar year, which is when 97% of all Atlantic tropical ...
A Hawaiian hurricane is a tropical cyclone that forms in the Pacific Ocean and affects the Hawaiian Islands. Hawaii lies in the central Pacific, ...
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 146, despite the presence of El Niño , which typically results in less activity, and had the most storms for an El Niño year on record, largely due to record-warm sea surface ...