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Aruba (TNCA)

Location: 12.50N 70.02W

Tropical systems passing within 60nm (= 69mi.) of the island. Used latitude/longitude coordinates (12.50N, 70.02W) 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 Aruba (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 Aruba and a five-year analysis to find out if more storms have passed close by Aruba 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   31   UNNAMED
18 Aug 1886    98   h2   15   UNNAMED
 9 Dec 1887    58   ts   17   UNNAMED
 8 Oct 1892    98   h2   29   UNNAMED
 6 Sep 1911    52   ts   34   UNNAMED
 3 Nov 1932    98   h2   67   UNNAMED
29 Jun 1933    92   h1   46   UNNAMED
21 Jul 1961    86   h1   52   ANNA
 7 Sep 1971    52   ts   21   EDITH
15 Sep 1978    46   ts   48   GRETA
17 Oct 1988    63   ts   34   JOAN
25 Jul 1996    46   ts   12   CESAR
 2 Sep 2007   104   h2   43   FELIX
 1 Nov 2010    46   ts   69   TOMAS

Aruba: all dec peak 5yr rank

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