Cleanup had to be expedited as Gonzalo quickly followed Gonzalo was Bermuda’s strongest and most damaging hurricane since Fabian in 2003. The island had never been affected by two named storms so close together in time, let alone seen both of them make landfall on the tiny cluster of islands, which have a combined land area of less than 21 square miles, about three-fifths the size of Manhattan.įay was unexpectedly damaging, knocking out power to the vast majority of Bermuda’s residents.
12, followed by Hurricane Gonzalo on Oct. (MORE: Hurricane Arthur Recap) Bermuda’s Double Whammyīermuda experienced an unprecedented double whammy in 2014, as two named storms made landfall there just six days apart: Hurricane Fay on Oct. According to NOAA's storm database, Arthur did about $2.4 million in damage to North Carolina and another $889,000 in damage due to flooding and severe thunderstorms in Massachusetts, along with a smattering of small-dollar damage in other East Coast states.Īrthur also made history in another way - its landfall in North Carolina came earlier in the season than any other North Carolina hurricane in modern recordkeeping. (Arthur was deemed indirectly responsible for one death in Canada.)įor a Category 2 hurricane, damage from Arthur was remarkably low. without causing any fatalities at all on American soil - either direct or indirect - since Hurricane Babe hit Louisiana in 1977. And it was the first hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. mainland without causing any direct fatalities here in 12 years, since Hurricane Lili hit Louisiana in 2002. It was the first hurricane to make landfall on the U.S. Yet paradoxically, Arthur achieved a pair of much more desirable distinctions. Arthur made landfall in eastern North Carolina late on July 3 with 100-mph winds, the first Category 2 or stronger landfall in the Lower 48 since Hurricane Ike hit Texas in 2008. Visible satellite image of Hurricane Arthur as it moved out to sea after lashing eastern North Carolina in July.īy maximum sustained wind speed, Hurricane Arthur was the strongest hurricane to make landfall on the U.S. Hurricane Ana became the longest-lived Central Pacific tropical cyclone in the satellite era, lasting 13 days (Oct. Marie became the sixth-strongest Pacific hurricane on record, with a minimum barometric pressure of 918 millibars. Amanda became the strongest May hurricane on record in the Eastern Pacific basin. Several individual Pacific hurricanes set records. Seven of those hurricanes reached Category 4 or higher status in 2014, the most on record. The total of 16 Pacific hurricanes in 2014 ties the modern record for most hurricanes in one season, previously set in 19. Fifteen of this year’s 20 named storms became hurricanes.Īn additional two named storms formed in the Central Pacific, one of which became a hurricane. The Eastern Pacific basin, however, yielded 20 named storms – the most since 1992, which holds the record with 24 named storms. Hurricane Amanda was the first named storm of an exceptionally active Pacific hurricane season. On both counts it was the sparsest Atlantic hurricane season since 1997, when there were also eight named and nine total tropical cyclones.
In the Atlantic basin, just nine tropical cyclones formed in 2014, of which eight were named (Tropical Depression Two was the exception). In terms of the number of storms and their combined energy, the Atlantic hurricane season was quieter than average, while the Eastern Pacific was extremely hectic. By the Numbers: Quiet Atlantic, Hyperactive Pacific Here are eight things we’ll remember from the 2014 season. Meanwhile, what the Atlantic side of North America may have lacked in tropical trouble, the Pacific side more than made up for. in six years, and later brought the strongest hurricane anywhere in the Atlantic basin in four years. On the other hand, the Atlantic basin brought the strongest landfalling hurricane in the mainland U.S. On the one hand, the Atlantic basin, which includes the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, produced the fewest tropical cyclones and fewest named storms since 1997. The 2014 hurricane season was one of contrasts and paradoxes.
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