hurricane edith made landfall at cape gracias a dios in 1971.
hurricane edith made landfall at cape gracias a dios in 1971.
where did hurricane edith make landfall in 1971?
cape gracias a dios
hurricane edith was the strongest hurricane to form during the 1971 atlantic hurricane season and the southernmost landfalling category 5 hurricane on record in the atlantic until surpassed by hurricane felix of 2007. edith developed from a tropical wave on september 5 and quickly strengthened into a hurricane in the caribbean sea. edith rapidly intensified on september 9 and made landfall on cape gracias a dios as a category 5 hurricane on the saffir-simpson hurricane scale. it quickly lost intensity over central america and after briefly entering the gulf of honduras it crossed the yucatán peninsula in mexico. after moving across the gulf of mexico a trough turned the storm to the northeast and edith, after having restrengthened while accelerating towards the coast, made landfall on louisiana with winds of 105 mph (170 km/h) on september 16. edith steadily weakened over land and dissipated over georgia on september 18.
hurricane edith (1971)
on september 6, irma made landfall on the islands of barbuda, saint martin, and virgin gorda at peak strength. this ties irma with cyclones monica of 2006 and winston of 2016, and typhoons zeb of 1998, megi of 2010, and yutu of 2018 as the fifth-strongest tropical cyclone to make landfall globally – in terms of sustained winds – trailing only typhoon haiyan of 2013 and typhoon meranti of 2016, which bore winds of 190 mph (305 km/h) at landfall, and the 1935 labor day hurricane and typhoon joan of 1959, which bore winds of 185 mph (295 km/h) at landfall. irma is second to the 1935 labor day hurricane 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. irma is the first recorded category 5 hurricane to affect the northern leeward islands, and was one of the worst storms to hit the region on record, along with hurricane donna in 1960 and hurricane luis in 1995. in addition, irma is only the second hurricane on record to make landfall in cuba at category 5 intensity, with the other being a hurricane in 1924. furthermore, when irma made landfall on barbuda, saint martin, virgin gorda, and cuba as a category 5 hurricane, it became one of only two recorded atlantic storms to make landfall in multiple nations at this strength; the other was hurricane andrew in 1992, which struck both eleuthera and the united states as a category 5 hurricane.
hurricane irma