Climatology

of Caribbean Hurricanes

Culebra Island, Puerto Rico (TJCL)

Location: 18.32N 65.29W

Tropical systems passing within 60nm (= 69mi.) of the island. Used latitude/longitude coordinates (18.32N,65.29W) 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 Culebra (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 Culebra and a five-year analysis to find out if more storms have passed close by Culebra recently.

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

1851 - 2010

date wind cat. cpoa name 5 Sep 1852 81 h1 57 NOTNAMED 24 Sep 1852 81 h1 43 NOTNAMED 29 Oct 1867 115 h3 4 NOTNAMED 22 Aug 1871 115 h3 34 NOTNAMED 13 Sep 1876 115 h3 19 NOTNAMED 28 Nov 1878 69 ts 22 NOTNAMED 14 Aug 1879 46 ts 61 NOTNAMED 23 Aug 1881 69 ts 66 NOTNAMED 3 Sep 1889 104 h2 32 NOTNAMED 15 Oct 1891 69 ts 39 NOTNAMED 16 Aug 1893 115 h3 36 NOTNAMED 13 Oct 1894 98 h2 17 NOTNAMED 28 Oct 1898 58 ts 59 NOTNAMED 8 Aug 1899 144 h4 45 NOTNAMED 31 Aug 1900 52 ts 65 NOTNAMED 11 Sep 1901 58 ts 1 NOTNAMED 10 Sep 1908 69 ts 50 NOTNAMED 6 Sep 1910 98 h2 56 NOTNAMED 13 Jul 1916 52 ts 28 NOTNAMED 22 Aug 1916 109 h2 32 NOTNAMED 10 Oct 1916 109 h2 52 NOTNAMED 3 Sep 1919 46 ts 69 NOTNAMED 19 Aug 1924 46 ts 7 NOTNAMED 29 Aug 1924 109 h2 27 NOTNAMED 3 Aug 1928 40 ts 49 NOTNAMED 13 Sep 1928 161 h5 37 NOTNAMED 17 Aug 1931 40 ts 48 NOTNAMED 11 Sep 1931 92 h1 0 NOTNAMED 27 Sep 1932 109 h2 8 NOTNAMED 14 Jul 1933 40 ts 67 NOTNAMED 26 Jul 1933 75 h1 38 NOTNAMED 28 Sep 1933 46 ts 44 NOTNAMED 8 Aug 1938 63 ts 7 NOTNAMED 5 Aug 1940 46 ts 48 NOTNAMED 5 Nov 1942 40 ts 17 NOTNAMED 14 Aug 1943 46 ts 55 NOTNAMED 17 Oct 1947 69 ts 42 NOTNAMED 24 Aug 1949 63 ts 61 NOTNAMED 3 Sep 1949 40 ts 17 NOTNAMED 23 Aug 1950 40 ts 61 BAKER 12 Sep 1955 52 ts 55 HILDA 12 Aug 1956 92 h1 45 BETSY 5 Sep 1960 132 h4 66 DONNA 16 Sep 1975 40 ts 44 ELOISE 4 Sep 1979 52 ts 15 FREDERIC 8 Sep 1981 58 ts 33 GERT 7 Nov 1984 69 ts 5 KLAUS 18 Sep 1989 138 h4 15 HUGO 7 Oct 1990 46 ts 66 KLAUS 16 Sep 1995 109 h2 12 MARILYN 8 Jul 1996 86 h1 30 BERTHA 21 Sep 1998 104 h2 28 GEORGES 21 Oct 1999 69 ts 32 JOSE 22 Aug 2000 75 h1 28 DEBBY 22 Aug 2001 58 ts 17 DEAN 15 Sep 2004 69 ts 45 JEANNE 11 Dec 2007 46 ts 8 OLGA

Culebra Island, Puerto Rico: all dec peak 5yr rank

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