Hurricanes

The 2005 season

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

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Tracks

The track of every 2005 storm in every basin on one map, colored by the strength it held at each point. Each storm is listed below with its own page.

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Deaths and damage

13 of this season’s storms are on record as having killed someone, 753 people in all, and 8 as having done damage, $161 billion of it.

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

31 storms, 29 at tropical storm strength, 15 hurricanes, 7 major; accumulated cyclone energy 248.0.

Eastern Pacific

17 storms, 15 at tropical storm strength, 7 hurricanes, 2 major; accumulated cyclone energy 96.6.

Western Pacific

26 storms, 24 at tropical storm strength, 18 typhoons, 10 major; accumulated cyclone energy 312.7.

North Indian

14 storms, 7 at tropical storm strength, 0 at hurricane force, 0 major; accumulated cyclone energy 13.9.

South Indian

19 storms, 19 at tropical storm strength, 7 at hurricane force, 4 major; accumulated cyclone energy 108.6.

South Pacific

13 storms, 12 at tropical storm strength, 6 at hurricane force, 5 major; accumulated cyclone energy 160.8.

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.