Hurricanes

The 1982 season

116 tropical cyclones worldwide, from NOAA’s IBTrACS archive.

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Radar

Reflectivity now across the United States. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

Open the live radar with storms, cones and warnings

Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

Deaths and damage

2 of this season’s storms are on record as having killed someone, 69 people in all.

The figures come from the National Hurricane Center and from Wikidata, which have filled in only some storms; a storm with no figure here may still have killed.

North Atlantic

8 storms, 6 at tropical storm strength, 2 hurricanes, 1 major; accumulated cyclone energy 28.5.

Eastern Pacific

30 storms, 23 at tropical storm strength, 12 hurricanes, 5 major; accumulated cyclone energy 161.2.

Western Pacific

28 storms, 25 at tropical storm strength, 19 typhoons, 12 major; accumulated cyclone energy 358.9.

North Indian

18 storms, 5 at tropical storm strength, 2 at hurricane force, 1 major; accumulated cyclone energy 20.7.

South Indian

21 storms, 17 at tropical storm strength, 7 at hurricane force, 2 major; accumulated cyclone energy 106.9.

South Pacific

11 storms, 11 at tropical storm strength, 6 at hurricane force, 1 major; accumulated cyclone energy 51.2.

Sources

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.