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Hurricane pictures / summaries 2016
Satellite images provided by NOAA / NASA / MODIS. Hurricane tracks courtesy of the National Hurricane Center.
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Hurricane Alex
January 14, 2016
Alex formed into a rare January hurricane. It was the first one since 1938 to form during January. It formed from an upper air disturbance between the Cape Verde Islands and Azores. Alex was estimated to be at hurricane strength by the 14th despite being over 68 degree water. It developed an impressive eye feature before moving into the Azores. Alex was downgraded just as it was moving into the Azores. Weather observations showed winds only over minimal tropical storm force. Top sustained winds were estimated at 85 mph.
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Hurricane Earl
August 3, 2016
A tropical wave moving across the central Caribbean strengthened and became Earl on August 2. It continued moving WNW and made landfall near Belize City around 2am on August 4th. Earl became a minimal hurricane of 80 mph just before landfall. The main threat from Earl was heavy rainfall over Central America, especially Belize.
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Hurricane Gaston
August 31, 2016
Gaston formed from a tropical wave southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands on August 22. It continued to strenghten briefly into a hurricane before facing hostile development conditions. Gaston moved into weak steering currents before turning northeast and quickly strengthening. Top sustained winds of 120 mph were measured on the evening of the 30th. The system gradually became extratropical as it moved across the western Azores on the 2nd of September.
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Hurricane Hermine
September 1, 2016
Hermine began as a tropical wave that brought squalls to the Leeward Islands. It moved north of Hispaniola in a very weakened state before gaining convection in the southern Bahamas on August 26th. It continued west into the Florida Straits and began to turn north on the 31st. It strenghtened into a tropical storm then to a minimal hurricane of 80 mph just before landfall east of St. Marks, Florida on September 2nd. Hermine moved into southeastern Georgia then northeast up the Southeast coast producing heavy rainfall.
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Hurricane Matthew
October 4, 2016
Matthew was the first category five hurricane in the Atlantic since 2007. It began near the Windward Islands and stayed at a very low latitude the next several days. It strengthened and gained category 5 strength north of Columbia. Top winds reached 160 mph. Matthew turned north and passed over the southern peninsula of Haiti causing a great loss of life from wind damage and flooding. Matthew then moved into the Bahamas passing just west of Nassau on the morning of the 6th.
Matthew remained a category 3 hurricane centered only 20-30 miles east of the Florida east coast before slightly weakening east of the Florida 1st coast. Matthew continued north and made landfall on the central South Carolina coast on the 8th. Disasterous rainfall amounts occured from the Georgia to North Carolina coast.
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Hurricane Nicole
October 12, 2016
Nicole formed several hundred miles northeast of Puerto Rico on October 4th. It strengthened and became a category 4 hurricane of 130 mph as it moved toward Bermuda. The center of the eye of Nicole passed just east of Bermuda late in the morning of the 13th. The western eye wall moved directly over Bermuda with a wind gust to 122 mph measured at Commissioner's point. Nicole continued over the northern north Atlantic the next few days as it lost its tropical characteristics.
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Hurricane Otto
November 24, 2016
Otto was a late season tropical cyclone. It became a tropical storm on November first north of Panama. It strengthened into a minimal hurricane and became the latest forming north Atlantic hurricane on record. It made landfall near the border of Costa Rica and Nicaragua on Thanksgiving Day. It continued westward into the eastern Pacific, making it a rare storm that kept its name from the Atlantic basin to the Pacific basin.
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