Cancun,Mexico's history with tropical systems
Current weather

(br)=brush (ts)=Tropical Storm (bd)=Back Door,meaning coming from over land from opposite coast.Not all names are noted,also storms before 1950 were not named.Not every stat on every storm description is given.(since 1871)

Years within 60 miles
1873,1873tsbr,1877,1879ts,1880br,1880ts,1886-2br,1887-2,1888,1893
1895br,1898tsbr,1901ts,1903br,1904ts,1909br,1909tsbr,1910tsbr
1912br,1913br,1916-2br,1918ts,1920tsbr,1922,1924tsbr,1933,1933ts
1936ts,1938,1938br,1939ts,1942,1944br,1945tsbr,1951br,1963br,1965ts,1966br
1967br,1970tsbr,1975tsbr,1980br,1988,1988ts,1995br,1998tsbr,2002br,2003ts,2004br,2005br,2005
54 times in 137yrs end of 2007


Names from list above
Charlie,Carla,Debbie,Inez,Beulah,Ella,Eloise,Allen,Gilbert,Keith,Roxanne,Mitch,Isidore,Claudette ,Ivan,Emily,Wilma,

How often Cancun gets affected?
brushed or hit every 2.54 years

Average years between direct hurricane hits.(usually within 40 miles to include small hurricanes)
(12h)once every 11.42 years

Statistically when Cancun,Mexico should be affected next
before the end of the 2008 season

Last affected by
?G!!TEXTB-->LAST AFFECTED 2005,Oct 22nd, Hurricane Wilma passes over the area very slowly while moving north & beginning the turn to the N.E. Hits with 130mph winds & leaves with 95mph winds. Cancun was hammered for nearly 36 hrs by hurricane force winds with extens.

This areas hurricane past
1873 Oct 4th 105mph while turning NE
1877 80 mph moving NNW sept 29th
1887 July 25th 95mph winds coming from the SSE
1887 again on sept 17th 95mph winds on nearly the same course
1888 80mph winds on sept 7th coming from odd direction from the ENE
1922 80mph on oct 19th
1933 105mph winds sept 22nd
1938 aug 15th 90mph
1942 aug 28th 95mph
1966 oct 7th hurricane Inez while moving WSW bruahes just north by 50 miles with 125mph winds
1988 hurricane Gilbert sept 14th a cat 5 hits with 155mph winds the north tip of the Yucatan as this area got hit hard.Tosse vessels on shore large storm surge took years to get tourism back. Satelite photo | Damage photo
1995 Hurricane Roxanne oct 9th 60 miles to south with 115mph winds
2005,Oct 22nd, Hurricane Wilma passes over the area very slowly while moving north & beginning the turn to the N.E. Hits with 130mph winds & exits with 95mph winds. Cancun was hammered for nearly 36 hrs by hurricane force winds with extensive damage. Reports in early 2006 indicate that beaches are a sliver of what they once were. Very few hotels in the beach communities are operational with the nights in the hotel zone labled as "ghostly". Official final report from NHC indicates roughly 100mph sustained with gusts to 130mph and 3 billion dollars in damage.Hotel damage before & after | Satellite image of Wilma as a cat 5 before landfall, strongest ever in the Atlantic basin as of 2005. | animated radar | Movie slide presentation of damage


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