Tropics quiz (Continued from Off-Topic forum)

[OtherHD]

1) What was the deadliest tropical system ever recorded? Where? When?

2) What year boasted the least amount of named storms in the Atlantic?
1914
1917
1983
1997

3) How many Cat 5 hurricanes have been recorded in the Atlantic?
3
23
22
25

4) When did the first pilot make an intentional flight into the eye of a hurricane?
1939
1957
1943
1963

5) What decade had the most landfalling Cat 1 hurricanes?
1940's
1980's
1990's
1960's

[JetMaxx]

1) What was the deadliest tropical system ever recorded? Where? When?

A 140-145 mph cyclone killed 300,000 people in Bangledesh in November of 1970

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2) What year boasted the least amount of named storms in the Atlantic?

1914

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3) How many Cat 5 hurricanes have been recorded in the Atlantic?

23
It was 22....but last year hurricane Andrew was upgraded to a cat-5...making the number 23. The last category 5 in the Atlantic Basin was Mitch in 1998.

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4) When did the first pilot make an intentional flight into the eye of a hurricane?

In 1943....a cat-2 hurricane approaching the upper Texas Coast

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5) What decade had the most landfalling Cat 1 hurricanes?

1980's with 8 (edging out 7 in the 1940's)

Take care,
Perry