Climatology

of Caribbean Hurricanes

Barbuda (TABA)

Location: 17.63N 61.78W

Tropical systems passing within 60nm (= 69mi.) of the island. Used latitude/longitude coordinates (17.63N,61.78W) 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 Barbuda (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 Barbuda and a five-year analysis to find out if more storms have passed close by Barbuda recently.

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

1851 - 2010

date wind cat. cpoa name 23 Sep 1852 69 ts 4 NOTNAMED 2 Sep 1859 81 h1 9 NOTNAMED 7 Jul 1861 58 ts 39 NOTNAMED 9 Oct 1867 46 ts 68 NOTNAMED 21 Aug 1871 115 h3 28 NOTNAMED 11 Sep 1872 69 ts 46 NOTNAMED 12 Sep 1876 104 h2 23 NOTNAMED 28 Nov 1878 69 ts 20 NOTNAMED 22 Aug 1881 69 ts 36 NOTNAMED 2 Nov 1888 46 ts 32 NOTNAMED 3 Sep 1889 86 h1 61 NOTNAMED 22 Sep 1896 40 ts 64 NOTNAMED 29 Nov 1896 58 ts 45 NOTNAMED 27 Oct 1898 58 ts 13 NOTNAMED 30 Aug 1899 81 h1 57 NOTNAMED 8 Sep 1899 115 h3 25 NOTNAMED 31 Aug 1900 52 ts 37 NOTNAMED 11 Sep 1901 52 ts 3 NOTNAMED 1 Sep 1906 104 h2 6 NOTNAMED 8 Mar 1908 98 h2 54 NOTNAMED 10 Sep 1908 69 ts 59 NOTNAMED 6 Sep 1910 92 h1 36 NOTNAMED 21 Aug 1916 86 h1 64 NOTNAMED 16 Sep 1922 115 h3 6 NOTNAMED 28 Aug 1924 109 h2 66 NOTNAMED 10 Sep 1931 75 h1 20 NOTNAMED 26 Sep 1932 121 h3 20 NOTNAMED 14 Jul 1933 40 ts 10 NOTNAMED 25 Jul 1933 52 ts 4 NOTNAMED 27 Sep 1933 40 ts 2 NOTNAMED 17 Sep 1934 46 ts 6 NOTNAMED 24 Aug 1937 40 ts 65 NOTNAMED 8 Aug 1938 69 ts 38 NOTNAMED 5 Aug 1940 40 ts 48 NOTNAMED 13 Aug 1943 40 ts 6 NOTNAMED 16 Oct 1947 40 ts 44 NOTNAMED 23 Aug 1949 58 ts 51 NOTNAMED 2 Sep 1950 127 h3 8 DOG 14 Sep 1953 40 ts 59 EDNA 2 Jan 1954 75 h1 41 ALICE 4 Sep 1960 155 h5 1 DONNA 28 Oct 1963 40 ts 38 HELENA 26 Aug 1966 98 h2 31 FAITH 17 Jul 1979 46 ts 23 CLAUDETTE 3 Sep 1979 63 ts 9 FREDERIC 5 Oct 1990 81 h1 13 KLAUS 28 Aug 1995 63 ts 13 IRIS 5 Sep 1995 138 h4 4 LUIS 8 Jul 1996 86 h1 9 BERTHA 21 Sep 1998 115 h3 41 GEORGES 20 Oct 1999 98 h2 33 JOSE 19 Nov 1999 81 h1 21 LENNY 22 Aug 2000 75 h1 7 DEBBY 2 Aug 2006 63 ts 40 CHRIS 10 Dec 2007 40 ts 46 OLGA 30 Aug 2010 109 h2 28 EARL 1 Sep 2010 58 ts 64 FIONA

Barbuda: all dec peak 5yr rank

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