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 - 2019

date wind cat. cpoa name 5 Sep 1852 81 h1 57 UNNAMED 24 Sep 1852 81 h1 43 UNNAMED 29 Oct 1867 115 h3 4 UNNAMED 22 Aug 1871 115 h3 34 UNNAMED 13 Sep 1876 115 h3 19 UNNAMED 28 Nov 1878 69 ts 22 UNNAMED 14 Aug 1879 46 ts 61 UNNAMED 23 Aug 1881 69 ts 66 UNNAMED 3 Sep 1889 104 h2 32 UNNAMED 15 Oct 1891 69 ts 39 UNNAMED 16 Aug 1893 115 h3 36 UNNAMED 13 Oct 1894 98 h2 17 UNNAMED 28 Oct 1898 58 ts 59 UNNAMED 8 Aug 1899 144 h4 45 UNNAMED 31 Aug 1900 52 ts 65 UNNAMED 11 Sep 1901 58 ts 1 UNNAMED 10 Sep 1908 69 ts 50 UNNAMED 6 Sep 1910 98 h2 56 UNNAMED 13 Jul 1916 52 ts 28 UNNAMED 22 Aug 1916 109 h2 32 UNNAMED 10 Oct 1916 109 h2 52 UNNAMED 3 Sep 1919 46 ts 69 UNNAMED 19 Aug 1924 46 ts 7 UNNAMED 29 Aug 1924 109 h2 27 UNNAMED 3 Aug 1928 40 ts 49 UNNAMED 13 Sep 1928 161 h5 37 UNNAMED 17 Aug 1931 40 ts 21 UNNAMED 11 Sep 1931 86 h1 12 UNNAMED 27 Sep 1932 144 h4 18 UNNAMED 26 Jul 1933 86 h1 17 UNNAMED 8 Aug 1938 63 ts 45 UNNAMED 5 Aug 1940 46 ts 44 UNNAMED 14 Aug 1943 46 ts 39 UNNAMED 3 Sep 1949 46 ts 14 UNNAMED 23 Aug 1950 46 ts 55 BAKER 12 Aug 1956 98 h2 45 BETSY 5 Sep 1960 127 h3 63 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 115 h3 26 GEORGES 21 Oct 1999 69 ts 32 JOSE 22 Aug 2000 75 h1 29 DEBBY 22 Aug 2001 58 ts 17 DEAN 15 Sep 2004 69 ts 45 JEANNE 11 Dec 2007 46 ts 8 OLGA 22 Aug 2011 75 h1 23 IRENE 6 Sep 2017 178 h5 33 IRMA 20 Sep 2017 161 h5 38 MARIA 29 Aug 2019 86 h1 13 DORIAN 24 Sep 2019 46 ts 1 KAREN

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

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