Climatology

of Caribbean Hurricanes

Barbados (TBPB)

Location: 13.07N 59.48W

Tropical systems passing within 60nm (= 69mi.) of the island. Used latitude/longitude coordinates (13.07N, 59.48W) 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 Barbados (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 Barbados and a five-year analysis to find out if more storms have passed close by Barbados recently.

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

1851 - 2019

date wind cat. cpoa name 24 Aug 1855 58 ts 49 UNNAMED 13 Aug 1856 81 h1 67 UNNAMED 9 Sep 1872 46 ts 22 UNNAMED 8 Sep 1875 81 h1 69 UNNAMED 29 Sep 1876 58 ts 64 UNNAMED 16 Aug 1886 98 h2 38 UNNAMED 20 Jul 1887 69 ts 64 UNNAMED 2 Aug 1887 52 ts 37 UNNAMED 12 Sep 1887 58 ts 24 UNNAMED 7 Dec 1887 40 ts 26 UNNAMED 1 Nov 1888 40 ts 58 UNNAMED 18 Aug 1891 115 h3 54 UNNAMED 12 Oct 1894 86 h1 33 UNNAMED 22 Aug 1895 46 ts 40 UNNAMED 15 Oct 1895 58 ts 26 UNNAMED 30 Aug 1896 40 ts 64 UNNAMED 11 Sep 1898 109 h2 30 UNNAMED 3 Oct 1898 58 ts 46 UNNAMED 2 Jul 1901 40 ts 67 UNNAMED 5 Jul 1901 40 ts 32 UNNAMED 20 Aug 1901 52 ts 59 UNNAMED 12 Jul 1916 40 ts 15 UNNAMED 13 Aug 1916 52 ts 51 UNNAMED 20 Sep 1917 46 ts 62 UNNAMED 1 Aug 1918 40 ts 25 UNNAMED 22 Aug 1918 69 ts 62 UNNAMED 9 Sep 1918 40 ts 61 UNNAMED 22 Jul 1926 58 ts 68 UNNAMED 21 Aug 1934 40 ts 38 UNNAMED 15 Sep 1942 40 ts 15 UNNAMED 24 Jul 1944 52 ts 54 UNNAMED 17 Aug 1944 69 ts 67 UNNAMED 31 Aug 1948 52 ts 35 UNNAMED 31 Aug 1949 46 ts 25 UNNAMED 22 Sep 1955 104 h2 11 JANET 30 Aug 1958 40 ts 22 ELLA 10 Jul 1960 58 ts 25 ABBY 25 Sep 1963 98 h2 35 EDITH 29 Sep 1966 52 ts 34 JUDITH 20 Aug 1970 69 ts 57 DOROTHY 1 Oct 1974 46 ts 50 GERTRUDE 10 Aug 1978 58 ts 69 CORA 4 Aug 1980 127 h3 20 ALLEN 8 Sep 1986 58 ts 58 DANIELLE 21 Sep 1987 46 ts 48 EMILY 14 Oct 1988 52 ts 46 JOAN 10 Sep 1994 52 ts 35 DEBBY 14 Sep 1995 81 h1 51 MARILYN 17 Aug 2001 40 ts 7 CHANTAL 7 Oct 2001 52 ts 30 JERRY 23 Sep 2002 58 ts 43 LILI 7 Jul 2003 40 ts 3 CLAUDETTE 1 Sep 2007 40 ts 67 FELIX 30 Oct 2010 75 h1 5 TOMAS 3 Aug 2012 46 ts 35 ERNESTO 9 Jul 2013 63 ts 35 CHANTAL 28 Sep 2016 58 ts 31 MATTHEW 18 Aug 2017 46 ts 1 HARVEY 27 Sep 2018 58 ts 52 KIRK 27 Aug 2019 52 ts 4 DORIAN

Barbados: all dec peak 5yr rank

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