“Unseen Fury: Jaw-Dropping Space Photography Reveals the True Power of Storms Like Never Before!”
Hurricane Gustav Was The Most Destructive Of The 2008 Season
Hurricane Gustav was the second most destructive hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. Forming off of the southeast of Haiti, it became a hurricane overnight and made landfall later that day near the Haitian town of Jacmel. It then continued to flood numerous areas of Jamaica and destroyed many parts of Western Cuba before it moved across the Gulf of Mexico.
Once in the Gulf, it shrank to a Category 2 before landing near Cocodrie, Louisiana. There were an estimated 153 deaths in the United States and the Caribbean with $6 billion worth of damages in the US, $2.1 billion in Cuba, and $210 million in Jamaica.
Hurricane Wilma Made Multiple Landfalls
Hurricane Wilma was the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Atlantic basin, and the second-most intense cyclone recorded in the Western Hemisphere, following behind Hurricane Patricia in 2015. It occurred during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which had three out of the ten most intense hurricanes ever recorded including Rita and Katrina.
After being classified as a hurricane on October 18th, within 24 hours, the storm grew to become a Category 5 with winds speeds of 185 miles per hour. Wilma made numerous landfalls in the Yucatan Peninsula, Cuba, and Florida in the United States. After Wilma, there were no more hurricanes to make landfall in the contiguous United States until Hurricane Harvey in August 2017.
