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Climatology
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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 for each decade since 1851 for Montego Bay. Note that the most recent 'decade' (2010) only consists of 1 year. All storms since 1851 in one image [colored spaghetti] can be found elsewhere. 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 |
2010 - 2010 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
NO STORMS PASSED BY THIS DECADE
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2000 - 2009 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
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
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1990 - 1999 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
13 Nov 1994 40 ts 58 GORDON
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1980 - 1989 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
6 Aug 1980 132 h4 42 ALLEN
12 Sep 1988 127 h3 28 GILBERT
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1970 - 1979 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
NO STORMS PASSED BY THIS DECADE
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1960 - 1969 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
NO STORMS PASSED BY THIS DECADE
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1950 - 1959 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
18 Aug 1951 92 h1 25 CHARLIE
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1940 - 1949 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
20 Aug 1944 121 h3 15 NOTNAMED
20 Sep 1947 40 ts 14 NOTNAMED
18 Sep 1948 58 ts 61 NOTNAMED
12 Oct 1949 40 ts 5 NOTNAMED
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1930 - 1939 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
13 Sep 1931 63 ts 28 NOTNAMED
29 Sep 1932 46 ts 41 NOTNAMED
16 Jul 1933 52 ts 14 NOTNAMED
29 Oct 1933 98 h2 3 NOTNAMED
20 Oct 1934 46 ts 32 NOTNAMED
23 Oct 1935 69 ts 55 NOTNAMED
2 Nov 1939 69 ts 41 NOTNAMED
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1920 - 1929 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
11 Aug 1928 75 h1 68 NOTNAMED
2 Sep 1928 40 ts 53 NOTNAMED
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1910 - 1919 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
9 Sep 1910 81 h1 9 NOTNAMED
18 Nov 1912 115 h3 1 NOTNAMED
13 Aug 1915 115 h3 15 NOTNAMED
16 Aug 1916 86 h1 17 NOTNAMED
23 Sep 1917 109 h2 12 NOTNAMED
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1900 - 1909 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
5 Jul 1901 69 ts 37 NOTNAMED
14 Sep 1901 69 ts 57 NOTNAMED
11 Aug 1903 121 h3 5 NOTNAMED
13 Jun 1904 81 h1 36 NOTNAMED
15 Sep 1909 40 ts 20 NOTNAMED
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1890 - 1899 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
6 Jun 1894 40 ts 34 NOTNAMED
25 Aug 1895 98 h2 54 NOTNAMED
26 Sep 1896 86 h1 45 NOTNAMED
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1880 - 1889 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
19 Aug 1880 81 h1 51 NOTNAMED
20 Aug 1886 109 h2 29 NOTNAMED
18 May 1887 58 ts 46 NOTNAMED
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1870 - 1879 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
6 Oct 1870 69 ts 61 NOTNAMED
2 Nov 1874 104 h2 60 NOTNAMED
12 Oct 1879 58 ts 35 NOTNAMED
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1860 - 1869 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
9 Sep 1865 104 h2 34 NOTNAMED
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1851 - 1859 |
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date wind cat. cpoa name
NO STORMS PASSED BY THIS DECADE
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Montego Bay, Jamaica: all dec peak 5yr rank
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