Climatology

of Caribbean Hurricanes

Montego Bay, Jamaica (MKJS)

Location: 18.50N 77.92W

Tropical systems passing within 60nm (= 69mi.) of the island. Used latitude/longitude coordinates (18.50N, 77.92W) 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 Montego Bay (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 Montego Bay and a five-year analysis to find out if more storms have passed close by Montego Bay recently.

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

1851 - 2019

date wind cat. cpoa name 9 Sep 1865 104 h2 34 UNNAMED 6 Oct 1870 69 ts 61 UNNAMED 2 Nov 1874 104 h2 60 UNNAMED 12 Oct 1879 58 ts 35 UNNAMED 19 Aug 1880 81 h1 51 UNNAMED 20 Aug 1886 109 h2 29 UNNAMED 18 May 1887 58 ts 46 UNNAMED 6 Jun 1894 40 ts 34 UNNAMED 25 Aug 1895 98 h2 54 UNNAMED 26 Sep 1896 86 h1 45 UNNAMED 5 Jul 1901 69 ts 37 UNNAMED 14 Sep 1901 69 ts 57 UNNAMED 11 Aug 1903 121 h3 5 UNNAMED 13 Jun 1904 81 h1 36 UNNAMED 15 Sep 1909 40 ts 20 UNNAMED 9 Sep 1910 81 h1 9 UNNAMED 18 Nov 1912 115 h3 1 UNNAMED 13 Aug 1915 115 h3 15 UNNAMED 16 Aug 1916 86 h1 17 UNNAMED 23 Sep 1917 109 h2 12 UNNAMED 11 Aug 1928 75 h1 68 UNNAMED 2 Sep 1928 40 ts 53 UNNAMED 13 Sep 1931 69 ts 28 UNNAMED 29 Sep 1932 46 ts 63 UNNAMED 16 Jul 1933 40 ts 51 UNNAMED 29 Oct 1933 92 h1 3 UNNAMED 21 Oct 1934 46 ts 44 UNNAMED 23 Oct 1935 63 ts 29 UNNAMED 12 Aug 1938 81 h1 10 UNNAMED 1 Nov 1939 69 ts 55 UNNAMED 21 Aug 1944 86 h1 3 UNNAMED 20 Sep 1947 40 ts 50 UNNAMED 18 Aug 1951 127 h3 26 CHARLIE 15 Sep 1958 40 ts 10 GERDA 6 Aug 1980 132 h4 42 ALLEN 12 Sep 1988 127 h3 28 GILBERT 13 Nov 1994 40 ts 60 GORDON 18 Sep 2002 52 ts 43 ISIDORE 30 Sep 2002 69 ts 23 LILI 12 Aug 2004 86 h1 69 CHARLEY 11 Sep 2004 144 h4 63 IVAN 20 Aug 2007 144 h4 68 DEAN 29 Aug 2008 69 ts 25 GUSTAV

Montego Bay, Jamaica: all dec peak 5yr rank

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