Jose, a category 1 storm, has maximum sustained winds of 90 miles per hour and is located about 815 miles east of the Lesser Antilles. The storm is forecast to remain a powerful category 4 or 5 hurricane during the next couple of days. According to NOAA’s National Hurricane Center, the category 5 Irma has maximum sustained winds of 180 miles per hour and is heading for the Turks and Caicos Islands. >This geocolor image from GOES-16 shows Hurricane Irma (l) and Hurricane Jose (r) in the Atlantic Ocean on September 7, 2017.

The data covers only the Continental United States and coastal areas, so areas of the storm further to the south and east, where Irma was at maximum intensity, are not visible This graphic was created with data from the RTMA, which uses surface observation data to create a highly accurate gridded analysis of past weather conditions. According to the NOAA's National Hurricane Center, Irma's maximum sustained winds ranged from 110 (on 9/10) to near 180 (on 9/7) miles per hour during this period. Note how the strongest wind gusts are on the north side of the storm track (the faint dotted line). That official designation will come at the organization's meeting in April, the hurricane center said.This data visualization shows the maximum wind gusts from Hurricane Irma from September 7 to September 10, 2017. No hurricanes will ever have the names Harvey, Irma and Maria again, as they will all certainly be retired by the World Meteorological Organization due to the storms' ferocity and impact. landfall in the same year (Harvey and Irma), according to Klotzbach.īumped out of the top 10 costliest hurricane list were Charley (2004), Irene (2011) and Hugo (1989), the Weather Channel reported. The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season was also the first season since records began in 1851 to have two Category 4 hurricanes make continental U.S. Meanwhile, Irma was the strongest storm on record in the Atlantic - excluding the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico - with maximum winds of 185 mph and an unofficial wind gust of 199 mph.Īnd Maria was the worst natural disaster in Puerto Rico's history, leaving potentially hundreds dead.

This broke the record for the greatest rainfall amount ever recorded in the 48 contiguous states from a single storm, WeatherBug reported. This week, Saildrone is launching two saildrones into the Gulf of Mexico, one from St. For the first year, two saildrones will track hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. Other records from the season included the 60.58 inches of rain that fell near Nederland, Texas, during Harvey. is deploying seven ocean drones to collect data from hurricanes during the 2022 hurricane season with the goal of improving hurricane forecasting. Irma’s landfall on Barbuda and Maria's landfall on Dominica makes 2017 only the second season on record to feature two hurricanes that hit at Category 5 strength. In a statistic known as 'Accumulated Cyclone Energy,' Hurricanes Irma, Jose, Katia, Lee and Maria that month generated the largest amount of energy for any month on record, according to Colorado State University meteorologist Phil Klotzbach.īoth Irma and Maria soared to Category 5 strength, the top of the Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity. September was the true behemoth, the single-most powerful month ever recorded in the Atlantic in terms of hurricane intensity.

history, even topping the disastrous 2005 season, which included Rita and Wilma in addition to Katrina. That makes 2017 the costliest hurricane season in U.S.

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