Also in the northern hemisphere, there were 23named storms in the western Pacific Ocean, including 13typhoons, of which Haitang was the strongest.[12] In the eastern Pacific, there were 15named storms, of which Kenneth was the strongest and longest-lived.[13] In the North Indian Ocean, there were four named storms, although none of them intensified beyond a cyclonic storm, or roughly a weak tropical storm.[14]
Wildfires
Extratropical cyclones and other weather systems
This is a timeline of deadly weather events during 2005.
January
January 16–25 – Cyclone Ernest struck southern Madagascar after previously moving around the northern and western portions of the country, killing 78people.[7][15]
February
March
March 1–August 31 – A drought across the American Midwest caused US2.4billion worth of crop damage.[16]
March 2–15 – Heavy rains in Madagascar left 8,000people homeless and caused 25fatalities.[17]
March 4–16 – Cyclone Ingrid became the first ever severe tropical cyclone to make landfalls in the Australian subdivisions of Queensland, Northern Territory, and Western Australia. In its formative stages, high waves from the cyclone killed five people when a boat capsized off Papua New Guinea.[6]
March 10 – Inclement weather caused boat accidents that killed 29people.[15]
March 12–19 – Tropical Storm Roke, known locally as Auring, moved through the central Philippines, killing 18people.[12][15]
March 24–26 – Floods in the Malagasy province of Anosy killed four people.[15]
May 17–21 – Tropical Depression Adrian struck the Pacific coast of Honduras after weakening from hurricane intensity, killing five people across Central America.[18][19][20]
July 4–13 – Hurricane Dennis moved through the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, striking Cuba and later the Florida panhandle. On July8, Dennis became the strongest Atlantic hurricane before the month of August. The hurricane killed 88people and left US$4.06billion in damage.[26][27]
July 10–20 – Typhoon Haitang hit Taiwan, killing 15people, and it later hit Zhejiang in mainland China, killing another three people.[28][29]
July 11–21 – Hurricane Emily moved through the Caribbean, striking Grenada and two locations in Mexico – along the Yucatán Peninsula and in Tamaulipas. Emily caused 17fatalities and about US$1billion in damage. On July16, Emily broke the record for the strongest Atlantic hurricane before the month of August, set by Dennis eight days earlier.[30][31][32][33][34]
July 18–20 – Tropical Storm Eugene brushed the southwest coast of Mexico, causing one death when a boat overturned.[35]
August 23–30 – Hurricane Katrina became the costliest American hurricane when it struck Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi, estimated at US$125billion. Katrina was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since 1928, with a death toll of 1,392 people, which was more recently surpassed by Hurricane Maria in 2017. Katrina left large portions of the New Orleans area underwater after storm surge breached the levee. The hurricane's widespread effects resulted in the greatest number of displaced people in the country since the Dust Bowl.[3][45][46][47]
August 24–September 1 – Typhoon Talim struck Taiwan, killing five. It later hit Fujian in mainland China, where the typhoon killed 167people.[28][39]
August 29–September 8 – Typhoon Nabi moved from the Northern Marianas Islands to Japan, killing 35people.[40][48]
September
September 1–10 – Hurricane Maria traversed the Atlantic Ocean, while its remnants impacted Europe, with a landslide in Bergen, Norway killing three people. Rip currents from Maria and nearby Hurricane Nate caused a drowning death in New Jersey.[49][50][51]
September 6–17 – Hurricane Ophelia meandered off the east coast of the United States, killing three people.[52][53]
September 12–17 – A depression struck Odisha and moved across India, killing six people in Madhya Pradesh from flooding.[14]
September 16–18 – Tropical Storm Vicente killed 22people when it struck Vietnam, including two drowning deaths in Hong Kong.[54]
September 17–21 – Cyclonic Storm Pyarr originated offshore Bangladesh and moved ashore eastern India, killing 91people between the two countries.[55]
September 18–26 – Hurricane Rita became the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Gulf of Mexico, before weakening and striking the U.S. Gulf coast near the border of Texas and Louisiana. There were 120deaths, and damage was estimated at US$18.5billion.[56][57][58]
September 19–28 – Typhoon Damrey moved from the Philippines, through the southern Chinese island of Hainan, and with a final landfall Vietnam, killing at least 124people.[59][39][60][61]
September 25–October3 – Typhoon Longwang struck eastern Taiwan, killing three people, and later mainland China in Fujian province, where the typhoon killed at least 133people.[28][39]
October
October 1–3 – Floods in Bangladesh killed 16people and displaced 50,000.[62]
October 1–5 – Hurricane Stan made hit the Mexican states of Quintana Roo and Veracruz. The storm, along with a broader weather disturbance, killed 1,669people across Mexico and Central America, particularly in Guatemala, while damage was estimated at US$2.7billion. El Salvador's Santa Ana Volcano erupted on October1, occurring simultaneous to the flooding.[2][63][34][64][65][66][67][68]
October 7–10 – Floods in Vietnam killed 17people.[15]
October 15–26 – Hurricane Wilma moved from the Caribbean into the Gulf of Mexico and across the western Atlantic Ocean, becoming the strongest Atlantic hurricane on record on October19. At its peak, Wilma had an estimated barometric pressure of 882mbar (26.0inHg), while its eye measured only 2 nautical miles (3.7km) across, the smallest known eye in an Atlantic hurricane. Its winds reached 185mph (298km/h), the fourth Category5 hurricane of the season. Along its path, Wilma killed 48people and caused US$20.2billion in damage.[71][34][27][72][56]
October 20–28 – Floods in Vietnam killed 67people.[15]
October 22–24 – Tropical Storm Alpha struck Hispaniola, killing 26people. Alpha was the first tropical storm to be named using the Greek Alphabet, due to the hyperactive season exhausting the regular naming list.[75]
October 28–November2 – Typhoon Kai-tak struck Vietnam, killing 20people.[76]
October 26–31 – Hurricane Beta struck Nicaragua after becoming the final of a record seven major hurricanes to occur during the season. Beta killed nine people.[77][78][79][80]
November
November 14–21 – Tropical Storm Gamma moved across the Caribbean, causing 39deaths, most of them in Honduras.[81][82]
November 22–28 – Former Tropical Storm Delta struck the Canary Islands in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, leaving 19people missing or killed, most of them from a shipwreck.[83]
November 28–December2 – Cyclonic Storm Baaz originated over the eastern Bay of Bengal and later struck India, killing 11people in Thailand and another 11 in India.[14][84]
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