Guess The Storm
What is Hurricane Idalia?
Though commonly assumed to be a retired name, this 1997 storm was not actually retired - it was simply swapped out for a different name as part of a wider changing of the basin's naming list
What is Typhoon Paka?
The current Atlantic and Eastern Pacific naming system, which uses 6 rotating lists with alternating male and female names, was first implemented (in the Atlantic) in this year
What is 1979?
This 2020 storm was downgraded from Category 5 to Category 4 intensity based off a combination of shoaling and a high bias of the SFMR
What is Hurricane Iota?
The National Hurricane Center, in its discussions on this 2010 storm, explicitly contradicted the models, which showed little or no further intensification of the system even after rapid intensification became a probability
What is Hurricane Celia?
This 2005 storm is mostly forgotten in the shadow of its contemporaries, but is notable for being the strongest storm to ever exist in the Gulf of Mexico
What is Hurricane Rita?
This name is the only name on record to be retired twice in the same basin
What is Bess?
The use of this alphabet to name storms after the 21st storm of a season was retired after 2020, on the basis of confusion and uncertainty over how retirement would work using it
What is the Greek Alphabet?
What is Florida?
This 2024 storm was, by a significant margin, the worst tropical cyclone on record in the state of North Carolina
What is Hurricane Helene?
Until Dora in 2023, this name was the only name to be retired in both the Atlantic and the Eastern Pacific
What is Hazel?
2018's Hurricane Fabio was viewed as a disappointment because it fell short of its forecasted Category _ peak intensity
What is 4?
What is Hurricane Mitch?
This notorious storm was operationally assessed as a Category 4, and was not upgraded to Category 5 until a full decade after it happened
What is Hurricane Andrew?
The Category 4 landfall of Hurricane Iniki on Hawaii in 1992 took many forecasters by surprised - just days before, they had predicted that the storm would head in this direction away from the state
What is West?
Described as the worst storm to hit the island since Hurricane David, this tropical storm was retired after it caused catastrophic damage to the island of Dominica
What is Tropical Storm Erika?
The initial version of List 3 on the Atlantic naming list, drafted in 1978, included this previously retired Atlantic hurricane name instead of Cindy
What is Carla?
The forecast peak intensity of 2023's Otis on its first advisory was lower than the actual peak intensity by this amount
What is 120 miles per hour?