Climatology

of Caribbean Hurricanes

Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas (MYNN)

Location: 25.05N 77.47W

Tropical systems passing within 60nm (= 69mi.) of the island. Used latitude/longitude coordinates (25.05N,77.47W) 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 Nassau (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 Nassau and a five-year analysis to find out if more storms have passed close by Nassau recently.

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

1851 - 2010

date wind cat. cpoa name 16 Oct 1859 69 ts 46 NOTNAMED 2 Oct 1866 138 h4 10 NOTNAMED 24 Aug 1871 104 h2 33 NOTNAMED 26 Sep 1877 46 ts 6 NOTNAMED 25 Aug 1878 46 ts 33 NOTNAMED 20 Aug 1880 46 ts 58 NOTNAMED 8 Sep 1883 104 h2 8 NOTNAMED 16 Aug 1888 115 h3 14 NOTNAMED 7 Sep 1888 52 ts 33 NOTNAMED 23 Aug 1891 98 h2 30 NOTNAMED 26 Aug 1893 121 h3 45 NOTNAMED 21 Oct 1893 46 ts 21 NOTNAMED 5 Sep 1896 115 h3 15 NOTNAMED 19 Oct 1897 63 ts 13 NOTNAMED 23 Oct 1897 58 ts 20 NOTNAMED 23 Oct 1898 40 ts 51 NOTNAMED 12 Aug 1899 121 h3 29 NOTNAMED 9 Aug 1901 46 ts 21 NOTNAMED 11 Sep 1903 86 h1 2 NOTNAMED 1 Oct 1908 109 h2 29 NOTNAMED 28 Aug 1909 46 ts 64 NOTNAMED 26 Jul 1926 132 h4 4 NOTNAMED 15 Sep 1926 40 ts 8 NOTNAMED 18 Sep 1926 144 h4 45 NOTNAMED 1 Nov 1927 40 ts 26 NOTNAMED 7 Aug 1928 92 h1 12 NOTNAMED 16 Sep 1928 155 h5 10 NOTNAMED 25 Sep 1929 155 h5 15 NOTNAMED 29 Aug 1932 58 ts 67 NOTNAMED 5 Sep 1932 161 h5 53 NOTNAMED 3 Sep 1933 138 h4 34 NOTNAMED 3 Nov 1933 40 ts 47 NOTNAMED 28 Jul 1936 46 ts 45 NOTNAMED 3 Aug 1937 40 ts 48 NOTNAMED 28 Aug 1937 46 ts 14 NOTNAMED 11 Aug 1939 69 ts 50 NOTNAMED 6 Oct 1941 109 h2 16 NOTNAMED 13 Oct 1945 75 h1 33 NOTNAMED 1 Nov 1946 46 ts 33 NOTNAMED 6 Oct 1947 52 ts 9 NOTNAMED 26 Aug 1949 132 h4 1 NOTNAMED 26 Oct 1952 109 h2 19 FOX 7 Oct 1958 69 ts 3 JANICE 7 Sep 1965 127 h3 17 BETSY 4 Oct 1966 86 h1 57 INEZ 6 Oct 1974 46 ts 48 SUBTROP4 3 Sep 1979 92 h1 54 DAVID 26 Sep 1984 52 ts 9 ISIDORE 24 Aug 1992 144 h4 24 ANDREW 1 Aug 1995 86 h1 65 ERIN 5 Nov 2001 92 h1 21 MICHELLE 3 Sep 2004 104 h2 50 FRANCES 25 Aug 2005 52 ts 41 KATRINA 1 Nov 2007 63 ts 8 NOEL

Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas: all dec peak 5yr rank

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