Climatology

of Caribbean Hurricanes

Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras (MHRO)

Location: 16.38N 86.45W

Tropical systems passing within 60nm (= 69mi.) of the island. Used latitude/longitude coordinates (16.38N, 86.45W) 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 Roatan (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 Roatan and a five-year analysis to find out if more storms have passed close by Roatan 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 68 UNNAMED 30 Oct 1870 69 ts 61 UNNAMED 12 Oct 1892 98 h2 9 UNNAMED 6 Jul 1893 92 h1 33 UNNAMED 16 Sep 1898 58 ts 57 UNNAMED 26 Aug 1918 81 h1 29 UNNAMED 19 Sep 1920 46 ts 1 UNNAMED 17 Jun 1921 52 ts 34 UNNAMED 4 Oct 1926 40 ts 5 UNNAMED 15 Aug 1931 52 ts 36 UNNAMED 10 Sep 1931 121 h3 40 UNNAMED 1 Oct 1932 46 ts 33 UNNAMED 5 Jun 1934 52 ts 56 UNNAMED 20 Sep 1940 46 ts 19 UNNAMED 28 Sep 1941 81 h1 38 UNNAMED 3 Aug 1942 40 ts 1 UNNAMED 21 Sep 1942 46 ts 29 UNNAMED 22 Oct 1943 46 ts 42 UNNAMED 4 Oct 1945 92 h1 11 UNNAMED 26 Sep 1954 69 ts 12 GILDA 15 Jul 1960 81 h1 7 ABBY 23 Jul 1961 92 h1 19 ANNA 2 Sep 1969 115 h3 8 FRANCELIA 10 Sep 1971 81 h1 8 EDITH 19 Sep 1974 109 h2 18 FIFI 18 Sep 1978 121 h3 10 GRETA 22 Sep 1980 63 ts 36 HERMINE 11 Oct 1996 52 ts 54 KYLE 28 Oct 1998 161 h5 45 MITCH 8 Oct 2001 132 h4 24 IRIS 19 Nov 2005 46 ts 60 GAMMA 26 Jun 2010 63 ts 41 ALEX 25 Sep 2010 52 ts 31 MATTHEW 24 Oct 2010 92 h1 30 RICHARD 20 Aug 2011 58 ts 5 HARVEY 4 Aug 2016 81 h1 53 EARL

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

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