Climatology

of Caribbean Hurricanes

Little Cayman, Cayman Islands (MWLC)

Location: 19.68N 80.05W

Tropical systems passing within 60nm (= 69mi.) of the island. Used latitude/longitude coordinates (19.68N, 80.05W) 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 Little Cayman (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 Little Cayman and a five-year analysis to find out if more storms have passed close by Little Cayman recently.

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

1851 - 2019

date wind cat. cpoa name 10 Sep 1865 104 h2 12 UNNAMED 6 Oct 1870 81 h1 50 UNNAMED 30 Sep 1873 46 ts 29 UNNAMED 18 Oct 1876 104 h2 59 UNNAMED 12 Oct 1879 58 ts 35 UNNAMED 28 Jun 1886 63 ts 9 UNNAMED 7 Aug 1887 40 ts 62 UNNAMED 12 Oct 1887 86 h1 46 UNNAMED 7 Jun 1894 40 ts 33 UNNAMED 18 Oct 1897 81 h1 62 UNNAMED 9 Oct 1898 58 ts 68 UNNAMED 28 Oct 1899 81 h1 20 UNNAMED 6 Jul 1901 69 ts 4 UNNAMED 14 Sep 1901 75 h1 14 UNNAMED 12 Aug 1903 121 h3 43 UNNAMED 15 Oct 1904 69 ts 18 UNNAMED 24 Aug 1909 86 h1 66 UNNAMED 16 Sep 1909 63 ts 24 UNNAMED 9 Sep 1910 81 h1 26 UNNAMED 14 Aug 1915 121 h3 7 UNNAMED 16 Aug 1916 92 h1 13 UNNAMED 24 Sep 1917 121 h3 15 UNNAMED 18 Oct 1927 46 ts 2 UNNAMED 30 Oct 1927 40 ts 6 UNNAMED 5 Sep 1930 46 ts 38 UNNAMED 9 Nov 1932 155 h4 2 UNNAMED 17 Aug 1933 40 ts 68 UNNAMED 28 Sep 1935 121 h3 6 UNNAMED 12 Aug 1938 92 h1 46 UNNAMED 1 Nov 1939 92 h1 33 UNNAMED 21 Aug 1944 86 h1 56 UNNAMED 12 Oct 1945 86 h1 7 UNNAMED 21 Sep 1947 46 ts 15 UNNAMED 15 Sep 1955 69 ts 2 HILDA 21 May 1970 46 ts 6 ALMA 18 Oct 1973 52 ts 13 GILDA 19 Sep 1975 40 ts 14 ELOISE 6 Aug 1980 144 h4 19 ALLEN 7 May 1981 46 ts 18 ARLENE 5 Nov 1981 86 h1 36 KATRINA 19 Sep 2002 69 ts 7 ISIDORE 1 Oct 2002 81 h1 10 LILI 12 Aug 2004 92 h1 52 CHARLEY 30 Aug 2008 98 h2 26 GUSTAV 8 Nov 2008 144 h4 6 PALOMA

Little Cayman, Cayman Islands: all dec peak 5yr rank

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