2005 Atlantic Hurricanes and U.S. Streamflow Visualizations Image credit: NCDC/NOAA

2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season Records Image credit: NCDC/NOAA

28 Named Tropical Storms

15 Hurricanes (RED LINES)

7 Major Hurricanes

4 Cat. 5 Hurricanes EMILY KATRINA RITA WILMA

7 Storms Made U.S. Landfall Hurricane Katrina

Tropical Storm Arlene

Tropical Storm Arlene Makes Landfall June 11, 2005

U.S. Streamflow Data ARLENE

ARLENE

ARLENE

Hurricane Cindy

CINDY U.S. Streamflow Data

CINDY

CINDY

CINDY

CINDY

CINDY Category 1 Winds = 75 mph

Hurricane Dennis

CINDY Dennis U.S. Streamflow Data

Dennis

Dennis

Dennis (dissipates)

But ...

flooding

continues

throughout the southeast U.S. Sweetwater Creek, Georgia

KATRINA

KATRINA U.S. Streamflow Data

KATRINA

KATRINA (dissipates)

But ...

flooding

continues

New Orleans, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina Showing Interstate 10 at West End Boulevard, looking towards Lake Pontchartrain.

U.S. Route 90's Bay St. Louis Bridge

Formerly the Spinnaker Point condos in Pascagoula, MS

Sept.6, 2005 - Destroyed houses in Gulfport, MS

Hurricane Rita

Evacuation Route

U.S. Streamflow Data RITA

RITA

RITA (dissipates)

Galveston Bay, Texas

Tropical Storm Tammy

U.S. Streamflow Data TAMMY (dissipates)

Tammy and Subtropical Depression 22 merge

Tammy & SubT- 22

Tammy & SubT- 22

Tammy & SubT- 22

Tammy & SubT- 22

Tammy & SubT- 22

Wettest October on Record in Central Park , NYC

NE gets wet

very

VERY

WET

Bar Harbor, ME

Hurricane WILMA Impacts : HATI Grand Cayman Island

Impacts: Key Haven, FL CUBA Cozumel, Mexico

Record High Winds = 185 mph Record Low Air Pressure = 882 mbar

WILMA

Key Haven, FL

WILMA

WILMA

WILMA

WILMA * BOSTON * New York City

WILMA

WILMA

WILMA

WILMA

Hurricane Wilma Dissipates Over Bermuda ... 6 more named storms formed into late December 2005 The End ?