Climatology

of Caribbean Hurricanes

South Caicos, TCI (MBSC)

Location: 21.51N 71.52W

Tropical systems passing within 60nm (= 69mi.) of the island. Used latitude/longitude coordinates (21.51N, 71.52W) might not be the center of the island. Often the location of the island weather station was used, which is normally at the airport.
Please note that not only hurricanes (h1-h5) are included but also tropical storms (ts). Wind/category reported is maximum measured while the system moved through region (box). Each category storm has its own color (see color bar below; ts=tropical storm; h1=category 1 hurricane; etc., see the guide for definitions). Different projections can be selected, the island projections are most zoomed in (select if you want to see how close the systems passed by the island [not available for regions]), while the world projection most zoomed out (select when you want to see the complete path of the storm). Winds are in miles per hour. It is also calculated how close the center of the storm came to the island, the so-called closest point of approach (cpoa, in miles).

Below you can see all stormtracks since 1851 for South Caicos (for more details about individual storms skip to another page where storms are separated per decade). In the climatology section there is also a weekly analysis of the data which shows when the real peak of hurricane season is for South Caicos and a five-year analysis to find out if more storms have passed close by South Caicos recently.

Projection: Island | Caribbean | Atlantic | World |
[ts=tropical storm; h1=category 1 hurricane; etc.]

1851 - 2019

date wind cat. cpoa name 20 Aug 1852 81 h1 7 UNNAMED 26 Sep 1852 92 h1 50 UNNAMED 25 Aug 1856 81 h1 30 UNNAMED 13 Aug 1861 46 ts 33 UNNAMED 1 Oct 1866 127 h3 1 UNNAMED 23 Oct 1870 104 h2 47 UNNAMED 23 Aug 1871 104 h2 44 UNNAMED 24 Sep 1877 46 ts 6 UNNAMED 16 Aug 1879 69 ts 6 UNNAMED 3 Sep 1882 81 h1 2 UNNAMED 22 Aug 1885 58 ts 1 UNNAMED 17 Sep 1886 46 ts 35 UNNAMED 23 Oct 1886 52 ts 16 UNNAMED 3 Sep 1888 109 h2 9 UNNAMED 21 Aug 1889 69 ts 59 UNNAMED 22 Aug 1891 98 h2 32 UNNAMED 18 Aug 1893 121 h3 29 UNNAMED 10 Aug 1899 121 h3 68 UNNAMED 2 Sep 1899 69 ts 13 UNNAMED 8 Jul 1901 69 ts 5 UNNAMED 21 Jul 1903 40 ts 65 UNNAMED 9 Sep 1903 58 ts 57 UNNAMED 6 Oct 1905 69 ts 64 UNNAMED 5 Sep 1906 132 h4 60 UNNAMED 25 Jul 1926 109 h2 19 UNNAMED 17 Sep 1926 150 h4 21 UNNAMED 5 Aug 1928 46 ts 23 UNNAMED 15 Sep 1928 155 h4 8 UNNAMED 3 Sep 1932 98 h2 57 UNNAMED 27 Jul 1933 86 h1 15 UNNAMED 31 Aug 1933 161 h5 36 UNNAMED 1 Oct 1933 40 ts 25 UNNAMED 19 May 1940 40 ts 47 UNNAMED 6 Aug 1940 46 ts 8 UNNAMED 5 Nov 1942 46 ts 37 UNNAMED 14 Jul 1944 40 ts 52 UNNAMED 20 Aug 1945 46 ts 10 UNNAMED 14 Sep 1945 121 h3 16 UNNAMED 7 Sep 1954 69 ts 29 EDNA 13 Aug 1956 115 h3 31 BETSY 7 Sep 1960 138 h4 41 DONNA 19 Sep 1960 46 ts 40 FLORENCE 28 Sep 1963 46 ts 18 EDITH 9 Sep 1981 40 ts 18 GERT 8 Oct 1985 52 ts 7 ISABEL 18 Nov 1985 92 h1 4 KATE 12 Sep 1996 115 h3 53 HORTENSE 11 Oct 2003 40 ts 24 MINDY 2 Sep 2004 138 h4 47 FRANCES 18 Sep 2004 52 ts 52 JEANNE 18 Sep 2005 40 ts 25 RITA 2 Sep 2008 86 h1 19 HANNA 7 Sep 2008 132 h4 28 IKE 6 Nov 2010 69 ts 11 TOMAS 24 Aug 2011 109 h2 42 IRENE 3 Aug 2014 46 ts 9 BERTHA 8 Sep 2017 161 h5 32 IRMA 22 Sep 2017 127 h3 48 MARIA

South Caicos, TCI: all dec peak 5yr rank

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