Climatology

of Caribbean Hurricanes

Guanaja, Bay Islands, Honduras (MHNO)

Location: 16.47N 85.90W

Tropical systems passing within 60nm (= 69mi.) of the island. Used latitude/longitude coordinates (16.47N, 85.90W) 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 Guanaja (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 Guanaja and a five-year analysis to find out if more storms have passed close by Guanaja recently.

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

1851 - 2019

date wind cat. cpoa name 31 Aug 1864 81 h1 57 UNNAMED 31 Oct 1870 81 h1 45 UNNAMED 12 Oct 1892 92 h1 13 UNNAMED 6 Jul 1893 92 h1 10 UNNAMED 16 Sep 1898 58 ts 42 UNNAMED 25 Aug 1918 92 h1 40 UNNAMED 19 Sep 1920 40 ts 30 UNNAMED 17 Jun 1921 52 ts 13 UNNAMED 4 Oct 1926 40 ts 19 UNNAMED 16 Oct 1927 40 ts 20 UNNAMED 15 Aug 1931 52 ts 23 UNNAMED 10 Sep 1931 121 h3 24 UNNAMED 1 Oct 1932 46 ts 31 UNNAMED 9 Oct 1932 52 ts 55 UNNAMED 20 Sep 1940 46 ts 13 UNNAMED 28 Sep 1941 81 h1 57 UNNAMED 21 Sep 1942 46 ts 23 UNNAMED 22 Oct 1943 46 ts 32 UNNAMED 4 Oct 1945 92 h1 11 UNNAMED 26 Sep 1954 69 ts 0 GILDA 15 Jul 1960 81 h1 18 ABBY 23 Jul 1961 92 h1 25 ANNA 2 Sep 1969 115 h3 14 FRANCELIA 10 Sep 1971 92 h1 31 EDITH 19 Sep 1974 109 h2 20 FIFI 18 Oct 1977 58 ts 64 FRIEDA 18 Sep 1978 121 h3 2 GRETA 22 Sep 1980 63 ts 14 HERMINE 27 Oct 1998 173 h5 18 MITCH 8 Oct 2001 132 h4 23 IRIS 19 Nov 2005 52 ts 32 GAMMA 26 Jun 2010 46 ts 27 ALEX 25 Sep 2010 52 ts 48 MATTHEW 24 Oct 2010 86 h1 15 RICHARD 20 Aug 2011 58 ts 10 HARVEY 4 Aug 2016 81 h1 37 EARL

Guanaja, Bay Islands, Honduras: all dec peak 5yr rank

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