Climatology

of Caribbean Hurricanes

Curacao, NA (TNCC)

Location: 12.20N 68.97W

Tropical systems passing within 60nm (= 69mi.) of the island. Used latitude/longitude coordinates (12.20N, 68.97W) 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 Curacao (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 Curacao and a five-year analysis to find out if more storms have passed close by Curacao recently.

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

1851 - 2019

date wind cat. cpoa name 23 Sep 1877 104 h2 28 UNNAMED 18 Aug 1886 98 h2 26 UNNAMED 9 Dec 1887 58 ts 46 UNNAMED 8 Oct 1892 98 h2 20 UNNAMED 5 Sep 1911 46 ts 55 UNNAMED 29 Jun 1933 86 h1 45 UNNAMED 21 Jul 1961 86 h1 63 ANNA 7 Sep 1971 40 ts 33 EDITH 14 Sep 1978 40 ts 51 GRETA 16 Oct 1988 58 ts 15 JOAN 25 Jul 1996 46 ts 1 CESAR 2 Sep 2007 104 h2 49 FELIX

Curacao, NA: all dec peak 5yr rank

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