Wilma was the most intense tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin on record in terms of minimum barometric pressure. At its peak intensity, the eye of Wilma was about 2. 3 miles in diameter, the smallest known eye in an Atlantic hurricane. It remains the most powerful hurricane to hit the United States since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It is the most severe hurricane to make a direct hit on New England since Hurricane Donna in 1978.
About Meteorological history of Hurricane Wilma in brief
Hurricane Wilma was the most intense tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin on record in terms of minimum barometric pressure. Wilma’s destructive journey began in the second week of October 2005. A large area of disturbed weather developed across much of the Caribbean Sea and gradually organized to the southeast of Jamaica. By late on October 15, the system was sufficiently organized for the National Hurricane Center to designate it as Tropical Depression Twenty-Four. The depression drifted southwestward, and under favorable conditions, it strengthened into Tropical Storm Wilma on October 17. From October 18, and through the following day, Wilma underwent explosive deepening. On October 21, it made landfall on Cozumel and on the Mexican mainland with winds of about 150 mph. Wilma weakened over the Yucatán Peninsula, and reached the southern Gulf of Mexico before accelerating northeastward. Despite increasing amounts of vertical wind shear, the hurricane re-strengthened to hit Cape Romano, Florida, as a major hurricane. By October 26, it transitioned into an extratropical cyclone, and the next day, the remnants of Wilma were absorbed by another extatropical storm over Atlantic Canada. It was then that Dvorak classifications were initiated for the area. At its peak intensity, the eye ofWilma was about 2. 3 miles in diameter, the smallest known eye in an Atlantic hurricane.
The system was enhanced by diffluence from an upper-level low across the southwestern Atlantic. The hurricane again re-intensified before cold air and wind Shear penetrated the inner core of convection. It then weakened as it quickly crossed the state, and entered the Atlantic Ocean near Jupiter, Florida. It finally weakened to a tropical storm on October 31. The storm was absorbed by a tropical depression on October 32. It is now a remnant low-pressure area in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, and is not expected to make landfall in the U.S. again until at least November. The remnants of Hurricane Wilma are still visible on the surface of the eastern Pacific Ocean, near the tip of the Baja California Peninsula. It has been named Wilma by the National Weather Service as one of the most destructive hurricanes in the history of the Atlantic Basin. It remains the most powerful hurricane to hit the United States since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It also is the most severe hurricane to make a direct hit on New England since Hurricane Donna in 1978. It became a tropical typhoon on October 25, with sustained winds of up to 100 mph. It later weakened to tropical storm force. It made landfall in New England on October 26. It eventually weakened into a tropical Depression on October 27. It dissipated on October 28. The tropical depression is no longer classified as a hurricane.
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