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At the Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, sustained winds reached 70 mph (110 km/h) and gusts peaked at 99 mph (159 km/h). [1] More than 862,800 Florida Power & Light customers lost electricity. [11] Wilma was the most damaging storm in Broward County since Hurricane King in 1950. Much of the damage was ...
At its peak, Hurricane Wilma's eye contracted to a record minimum diameter of 2.3 mi (3.7 km). In the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Wilma was the twenty-second storm, thirteenth hurricane, sixth major hurricane, [nb 1] fourth Category 5 hurricane, and the second costliest in Mexican history. Its origins came from a tropical ...
September 1 – Hurricane Hermine made landfall along the Big Bend of Florida with winds of 80 mph (130 km/h), making it the first hurricane landfall to the state since Hurricane Wilma in 2005. The highest recorded wind gust in the state was 78 mph (126 km/h) in Bald Point State Park.
By Katy Galimberti In the most destructive hurricane season in recorded history, images from Katrina, Rita, Wilma and others still resonate today and immediately recall the total despair millions ...
Wilma roared ashore in South Florida on Oct. 24, 2005, making landfall in Cape Romano, Florida. It was a Category 3 storm at the time it reached the Florida coast, the last major hurricane to ...
[170] [171] The names Franklin, Lee, Maria, Nate, Ophelia, Philippe, Rita, Stan, Tammy, Vince and Wilma from the regular list were used for the first (and in the cases of Rita, Stan, and Wilma, only) time in 2005, as were the auxiliary list Greek letters Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon and Zeta. This was the first Atlantic hurricane season ...
The hurricane produced a peak storm surge of 24 feet and flattened nearly everything along the Mississippi coast. ... 1989Andrew - 1992Mitch - 1998Isabel - 2003Ivan - 2004Emily - 2005 Katrina ...
Hurricane Wilma. October was above average featuring sixteen storms with eight of them being named. In the East Pacific a short lived depression formed. The storm officially ended the 2005 Pacific hurricane season. In the West Pacific, Typhoons Kirogi and Kai-tak along with three depressions formed. Kirogi approached Japan but drifted away from ...