Sandy in 2012 not only had a weird track but it literally went through the 4th wall. It merged with a blizzard like snowstorm that crippled the northeast. New York City especially around Lower Manhattan was flooded. The storm damage was massive and nearly 233 people died. It cost $70 billion in damages to eight countries.
I’ve always wondered if a single hurricane could form off Cape Verde, hit Central America, reintensify in the Pacific, make it all the way across to hit Indochina, reintensify again in the Bay of Bengal, hit India, reintensify once more in the Arabian Sea, and hit Eastern Africa or the Arabian peninsula where it would finally dissipate.
Heres my hypo storm of that Hurricane/Typhoon/Cyclone Xilo (2028) 195 mph 873 mb September 3rd - November 29th (longest on record) Damages: 95 billion (80 billion in NATL, 7 billion in WPAC, 8 billion in NIO) Deaths: 31,786 Edit: New Changes made
Hurricane Sandy deserves to be on the list despite having some extra tropical characteristics just before landfall in New Jersey. Hurricanes don’t track northeast of Cape Hatteras then hook a hard left into NJ. Extremely anomalous and forecasters must’ve been scratching their heads looking at the EURO forecast track a few days before.
Yeah, that was one of the most underrated storm of that year. It was Insane! It needs credit and surely a record was broken becasue of it, but sadly it was not remembered due to its relatively weak intensity and Haiyan devastated the Philippines just after 5 days.
@SPCNorthTexas2017 Sandy was a hurricane right before it made landfall and transitioned from tropical to extra tropical cyclone as it made landfall with 80 mph winds (equal to Cat 1 hurricane) but I guess you could argue it had the characteristics of a Nor’easter. Sandy was a complicated and weird storm. And unfortunately one of the worse hurricanes to ever slam the United States. And it will only get worse in the future.
Cyclone Rewa in South Pacific, december 1993 & January 1994 was strange. It formed on the north of coral sea, intensified into a cat. 4 across his track to the south, but he made a turn to the east and landed in New Caledonia as a tropical storm, but it decided to go at the north and make a big loop in coral sea, reintensifying as a cat.4, after making another little loop. Finally, it go southwest near the Australia as a tropical storm and dissipated.
Harvey's track was so shocking. I live on the NE side of San Antonio, Texas and it was headed right for us. I remember seeing an ugly line of squalls with 60 mph winds come through, and then everything stopped and I wondered WTF? Harvey turned right back around and went into the gulf and then started creeping along the coast to Houston. I was expecting pretty nasty flooding when we were told to be ready for up to 20 inches or so if I remember right, but that one squall only lasted about 30 minutes and that was it. NW side of San Antonio didn't even get any rain. Twenty miles east of me though in Seguin they got a foot of rain from Harvey. I think we only ended up with 4 or 5 inches of rain in that one squall line in my area.
Also noru (2017) I think td wilma (2013 pacific) wpuld be ranked higher but its a td and only named by pagasa, but it travelled from the pacific into the arabian sea which is annusual
Other honourable mentions: Hurricane Pali (2016) for forming in the deadest part of the Pacific Basin in also the deadest month (January). Cyclone Katrina-Victor-Cindy (1998) for its weird loopy track and the circulation in some form persisting for over 50 days. TD Wilma (already mentioned). Hurricane Catarina for being the only Hurricane strength storm in the South Atlantic and the only Hurricane strength storm to have ever made landfall on South America (excluding any candidates along the Caribbean coast). The South-East Pacific Subtropical storm near Chile earlier this year and
@@x_zschannel at least Omar formed in the eastern Caribbean and mostly moved northeast. That’s not too strange. Lenny on the other hand formed in the western Caribbean and moved east until it passed south of Puerto Rico. Also not to mention the time of year was very unusual for Lenny. It nearly became a cat 5 in mid November. The only other storm in recent history I can think of that did that was Iota.
Yes, Winston (2016), Rewa (1994) for example. Winston is also the strongest cyclone to form and landfall in the Southern Hemisphere. Pressure of 884 hPa and 10 min. sustained winds of 140 150 kts.
I remember hurricane Dorian in 2019 when it sat over the Bahamas with 185 to 190mph while stalling near Florida (I moved here in October 2019) before the storm reached category 1 it was expected to hit Florida but then it changed course and headed for the Bahamas and it sat there for almost 2 days while creeping near Miami and Fort Lauderdale with 185mph, I also remember hurricane Ian with 155mph when it slowly moved over Florida and it kept changing paths and it went back into category 1 with 85mph minds and made another landfall in the Carolinas
@Tvold I remember when I heard about Cyclone Freddy when it formed near Indonesia and did a 5000 mile journey to Madagascar and Slammed Mozambique and Malawi and it hit Madagascar for the 2nd time and then it turned back and hit Mozambique again
I remember Wilma very well, she's an unforgettable memory etched in my mind, because she nearly took our apartment down around us in West Palm Beach. I saw our large plate glass window 'breathing' in and out by roughly 4 inches; how it didn't shatter I don't know, but thankfully it didn't and we rode that storm out with what was minor damage all told.
@@e.graceoldstoneroses9947 Glad you made it out well, however, "FruDe Games" was talking about Tropical Depression Wilma of 2013 in the Western Pacific...not Major Hurricane Wilma of 2005 in the North Atlantic.
Hurricane Elena 1985 worth an honerable mention. Formed as a tropical cyclone over land (Cuba), curved north into the Gulf, headed for NE Florida before stalling just offshore, did a small loop then headed WNW into the Golf coast near Biloxi. Must have been a forecasters nightmare at the time.
I'd like to give a shout out to Hurricane Faith (1966): the most northward travelling hurricane. The NOAA archives supposedly have it maintaining Cat 2 status before hitting the Faroe Islands as a Cat 1 and only then becoming extratropical. I dispute this, however, given that remote sensing was in its infancy, and strong suspect it became extratropical much sooner. The extratropical remnants were tracked over Russia until they dissipated near the Arctic. An incredible storm!
Just found reanalysis data that suggests Faith was extratropical at 45 degrees North, which makes a lot more sense. But still this was a powerful.ex hurricane which had a tremendously long track!
I can't claim surprise that it's not on here, but Hurricane Agnes in 1972 was definitely strange. First, it formed OVER LAND, forming as a tropical depression over the Yucatan Peninsula when two weather systems interacted there. After moving into the Caribbean it was unremarkable for a while, barely reaching hurricane strength, making landfall in the Florida panhandle, and quickly weakening into a tropical depression over Georgia. But it stopped weakening, stayed tropical as it crossed Georgia and South Carolina, and then _restrengthened over land_ in North Carolina, becoming a tropical storm again _before_ moving back over water in the Atlantic. Even after becoming extratropical soon after landfall near NYC, it wouldn't go away, looping around the eastern seaboard for almost three days and dumping ridiculous amounts of rain, especially in central and western PA (some areas saw total rainfall of 19 inches and floods exceeding 30 feet).
1.) Eta (2020) - because after smashing Nicaragua, it remained into tropical storm status for a few days and landfalled in florida. 2.) Noru (2017) - long-lived storm 3.) Wayne (1986) - stayed in the West Philippine Sea for a few weeks 4. Catarina (2004) - A weird south atlantic hurricane 5. Lionrock (2016) - The track's weird for me tho... 6. Parma (2003) - One large loop 7. Ophelia (2017) - Easternmost major 8. Lorenzo (2019) - Easternmost Cat 5 9. Lenny (1999) - Weird west-to-east track 10. Faith (1966) - Longest track in the Atlantic & 2nd overall, and the northernmost latitude. 11. John (1994) - longest track in the Pacific and overall 12. Vamei (2001-02) - track near equator
ATL: Rita was retired in 2005 because its was devastating to land WPAC: 😲 "Rita Forms in Western Pacific in 1974" WPAC: *HØLY SHEET* Rita: Don't worry WPAC Okinawa Islands: WTF is this?!
I honestly thought hurricane isidore(2002) would make it into this top. As someone who lived through it, i can tell how strange its trayectory really was. It formed near venezuela and metheologysts predicted it to eventually pass the yucatan canal, and hit the us gulf of mexico coast like most other hurricanes. however, while it was heading towards usa, it made an extremely sudden change in its track, now directing diretly to the mexican state of Yucatan. We had around 24 hours to prepare. We went from expecting some rain from a random hurricane, to receiving a big strike from a powerful category 4. it hit directly the yucatan norht coast and went deep into the state, just for it to change its direction again and move exactly from where it came. It went through my city twice, and it caused massive destruction, not because of the strenght, but because of how little time we had to prepare and how impredictible it became to track it.
Cyclone Alby April 1978. Very late in the cyclone season, it came down the west Australian coast into the south west of the country and destroyed the longest pier in the Southern Hemisphere.
how do these hurricanes manage to stall for so long? i'd figure that the cold water getting pulled up from below the warm waters would weaken it enough to disintegrate them. super good video also
I had the track of hurricane Lenny pulled up and was like “what is so weird about this track?” Then I say the screen and saw what way it was going and was like “OH”
So many suggestions here in the comments, I would like to add some. 1. Typhoon Hester (1952): the track was not particularly interesting, but it was a formidable Category 5 (185mph 950mb) in the Western Pacific on January 1. Probably the only northern hemisphere storm to cross the year as a Category 5. 2. Typhoon Alma (1946): again, not a particularly interesting track. However, its Wikipedia track suggests that it was tropical up to 52 degrees north near the Kamchatka Peninsula, and somehow even intensified into a Category 1 from a tropical storm. This is unseen anywhere else and possibly the farthest-north tropical cyclone in recorded history, as Faith (1966) was downgraded in reanalysis to an extratropical storm near the U.K.
Another honorable mention I haven't seen in the comments - Hurricane Jeanne of 2004. Definitely misled a lot of people believing this would be another out to sea storm, just to loop de loop back into central FL
That was certainly a strange one! Unfortunately when there’s over 14,000 storms in recorded history not every strange one can make it into a top 10 even if they’re very unusual!
Next time you make videos like this about tracks it would be great if you included a line following it maybe color coded like the pressure scale used in models
Mine would be Typhoon Tembin (2012) that has U-turn because of Fujiwhara Effects from nearby Typhoon Bolaven. It made landfall twice in Southern Taiwan. Another strange one was a cyclone, passing very close to Australian coastline for days, before making landfall as Category 1 cyclone. I forgot the name and year.
@@juliusnepos6013 maybe? It formed W of Bay of Carpentaria, then made landfall several times while acrossing that Bay. And finally made landfall on Western Australia
@@hiitsme1725 not Oswald, but I think its not too eratic. Edit: It's TC Steve (1999). Sorry to bothering you guys There's more interesting ones. This one had 3 different naming, but also did not know its name. Is South Pacific cyclones. Another worthy strange cyclone track: Cyclone Rewa
Decent video! But maybe some helpful tips. 1. Background music is way too loud. Can barely hear you. 2. Slow down a bit. Speak with a bit more resonance. Thanks again for the content
I think that Typhoon Rai (Odette) also had a bit of a strange track It went much further South in the Philippines compared to where landfalling typhoons usually go in the Philippines, especially a Typhoon of that intensity. Also the 2 rapid intensifications including one after it had already weakened after barreling through the Philippines. Then instead of making landfall in Vietnam (which it would have been devastating as a category 5 landfall) it curved North and then northwestward and then died in the Amihan winds. I still think LA Nina had something to do with it. I know that LA Nina usually inhibits the storm development but this storm, once it was past that develpmentphase, it fed off those warmer waters piling up in the Eastern Pacific brought by the stronger the normal easterly trade winds in a LaNina.
I thought Ivan (2004) would be here. Made landfall in the gulf, came off the coast in Virginia, went backwards down the Gulf Stream current, crossed Florida, and made landfall in Texas, making what might be the biggest loop of all time.
I thought the lake superior hurricane, Ophelia (the one that hit the UK), as well as Hurricane Catarina would be on here. Alice makes the cut on my list for it being part of two hurricane seasons.
We hope you enjoy this documentary-style piece! What other top 10 tropical cyclone lists do you want? Comment below to tell us!
Strongest to not affect land?
@@ripkobe8006 Noted! This isn't one of the 6 we've already made, and is definitely a good idea for the future
Please, please make top ten New England Hurricanes.
It's my particular area of expertise and interest, so I would find it very interesting.
a video about hail storms
Strongest hurricane each year, or strongest hurricanes from each region, hope you consider these!
God: How many times do you want to become a category 2 storm?
Typhoon Rita: Yes
Lol
literally 7 times
Sandy in 2012 not only had a weird track but it literally went through the 4th wall. It merged with a blizzard like snowstorm that crippled the northeast. New York City especially around Lower Manhattan was flooded. The storm damage was massive and nearly 233 people died. It cost $70 billion in damages to eight countries.
As a upstater who was affected by both that and Irene and was down in Florida during Eta definitely a disappointing list
As a survivor of hurricane sandy,I can confirm this is true.
I wasn’t effected by sandy but maybe just some clouds
I thought Hurricane Faith from the 1966 Atlantic season was possibly the strangest track ever. The remnants nearly made it to the north pole!
And even if the extratropical transition had begun before, he was still officially category 1 hurricane near Faroese Island !
Hurricane How of 1951 look at its track.
3 years later still peaking my curiosity thanks for making a random comment that made someone’s day 3 years after
Number 0: Cyclone Freddy (2023)
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Number -1: Milton (2024)
This video was 2 years before 2023, also how is Milton weird? 😅
@@rmanaloto how strong it got near the Yucatán Peninsula
I’ve always wondered if a single hurricane could form off Cape Verde, hit Central America, reintensify in the Pacific, make it all the way across to hit Indochina, reintensify again in the Bay of Bengal, hit India, reintensify once more in the Arabian Sea, and hit Eastern Africa or the Arabian peninsula where it would finally dissipate.
@@dumbcat489 lol
I was always thinking of this, closes we will have is John of 1994 and Tropical Depression Wilma
John initially formed in Africa but not at storm speed and made it to the Pacific.
Same, bud
Heres my hypo storm of that
Hurricane/Typhoon/Cyclone Xilo (2028)
195 mph 873 mb
September 3rd - November 29th (longest on record)
Damages: 95 billion (80 billion in NATL, 7 billion in WPAC, 8 billion in NIO)
Deaths: 31,786
Edit: New Changes made
Hurricane Sandy deserves to be on the list despite having some extra tropical characteristics just before landfall in New Jersey. Hurricanes don’t track northeast of Cape Hatteras then hook a hard left into NJ. Extremely anomalous and forecasters must’ve been scratching their heads looking at the EURO forecast track a few days before.
Mine is definitely td wilma, formed in the pacific ocean, then traveled as far as the arabian sea.
Yeah, that was one of the most underrated storm of that year. It was Insane! It needs credit and surely a record was broken becasue of it, but sadly it was not remembered due to its relatively weak intensity and Haiyan devastated the Philippines just after 5 days.
@@SAGE0536AGN yeah
@@SAGE0536AGN bruh wilma turned into a TS in the pacific still
@@juliusnepos6013 and because the Atlantic said otherwise
@@juliusnepos6013 It Is Bagyong Wilma As Known Is BOB 05 IN BAY OF BENGAL
John’s records were recently broken with cyclone Freddy 😂
Sandys leftward turn in 2012 was weird for me. Live in NJ.
As another north easterner I get that! Hard to fit every odd storm out of 14,000+ into just 10 right!
@@TropicalStorm4213 yeah
@SPCNorthTexas2017 Sandy was a hurricane right before it made landfall and transitioned from tropical to extra tropical cyclone as it made landfall with 80 mph winds (equal to Cat 1 hurricane) but I guess you could argue it had the characteristics of a Nor’easter. Sandy was a complicated and weird storm. And unfortunately one of the worse hurricanes to ever slam the United States. And it will only get worse in the future.
15:34 I need to know about that cyclone over southern Africa.
I just realized that.
@@SAGE0536AGN That’s South America
@@SAGE0536AGN the one over land is the one I’m interested in, just to clarify
@@nolanmetzger4354 maybe a mistake. Bit Dineo of 2017 managed to reach that area as a depression though and disspipated in the coast of Namibia
Now this is a video I want to see.
The weirdest storm tracks for me are the storms that loop around. It’s just strange for me
*AHEM* IVAN.
@@jordijordinium yep, thats one of them!!!!
@@TomMaster “Where is the South East US Ivan?”
*”Right Here!”*
Jeanne also
Yep
The weirdest track I've ever seen since I'm tracking hurricanes is Leslie track in 2018 (and Eta 2020 the 2nd ofc !)
Mine was Lionrock, Noru and of course Eta
Mine was hurricane Paulette and Sally
I’ve tracked since I saw Irma and Harvey so the weirdest since then in my opinion was probably Leslie or Paulette
Eta and Paulette were the weirdest this year for sure.
I’ve major tracked from Dorian and beyond, but got really into to it when Arthur formed, so I’d say Eta
Cyclone Rewa in South Pacific, december 1993 & January 1994 was strange. It formed on the north of coral sea, intensified into a cat. 4 across his track to the south, but he made a turn to the east and landed in New Caledonia as a tropical storm, but it decided to go at the north and make a big loop in coral sea, reintensifying as a cat.4, after making another little loop. Finally, it go southwest near the Australia as a tropical storm and dissipated.
My favourite storm in terms of weird tracks is Cyclone Katrina-Victor-Cindy (1998). The circulation in some form persisted for over 50 days.
Harvey's track was so shocking. I live on the NE side of San Antonio, Texas and it was headed right for us. I remember seeing an ugly line of squalls with 60 mph winds come through, and then everything stopped and I wondered WTF? Harvey turned right back around and went into the gulf and then started creeping along the coast to Houston. I was expecting pretty nasty flooding when we were told to be ready for up to 20 inches or so if I remember right, but that one squall only lasted about 30 minutes and that was it. NW side of San Antonio didn't even get any rain. Twenty miles east of me though in Seguin they got a foot of rain from Harvey. I think we only ended up with 4 or 5 inches of rain in that one squall line in my area.
Honorable mentions: Mitch, Ivan, Sandy, Harvey, Ophelia (2017), Florence, Sergio (2018), Leslie (2018), Mekunu, Paulette (2020), Eta
Also noru (2017)
I think td wilma (2013 pacific) wpuld be ranked higher but its a td and only named by pagasa, but it travelled from the pacific into the arabian sea which is annusual
Hurrocane Elena (1985) and Jeanne (2004) for the looping motion they makr though.
Other honourable mentions: Hurricane Pali (2016) for forming in the deadest part of the Pacific Basin in also the deadest month (January). Cyclone Katrina-Victor-Cindy (1998) for its weird loopy track and the circulation in some form persisting for over 50 days. TD Wilma (already mentioned). Hurricane Catarina for being the only Hurricane strength storm in the South Atlantic and the only Hurricane strength storm to have ever made landfall on South America (excluding any candidates along the Caribbean coast). The South-East Pacific Subtropical storm near Chile earlier this year and
Omar (2008) Did a bit of a Lenny, although Lenny is probably stranger as it travelled further to get to the lesser Antilles
@@x_zschannel at least Omar formed in the eastern Caribbean and mostly moved northeast. That’s not too strange. Lenny on the other hand formed in the western Caribbean and moved east until it passed south of Puerto Rico. Also not to mention the time of year was very unusual for Lenny. It nearly became a cat 5 in mid November. The only other storm in recent history I can think of that did that was Iota.
Hinano was an interesting anomaly 😁
Could you also do a top 10 shortest but destructive tracked storms or top 10 tiny storms ?
One I would say is the mid East/west derecho. It was 40ish minutes but our power went out, it was a cat 4 in terms of speed, it didn't have a name.
Hurricane Juan 1985 was an unusual track. Looped twice in Louisiana and made final landfall in Pensacola
Most of the storms that have erratic tracks in the Northern Hemisphere thinks that they are in the Southern Hemisphere.
Yes, Winston (2016), Rewa (1994) for example. Winston is also the strongest cyclone to form and landfall in the Southern Hemisphere. Pressure of 884 hPa and 10 min. sustained winds of 140 150 kts.
1:45 until Freddy beats John
The one storm you missed was 2004 storm hurricane catarina in the southern atlantic! super rare and maybe should have made this list
No we see Usally 1 per year
1:45
2023: *laughing demonically*
What about the only hurricane to form in the southern Atlantic in recorded history (struck Brazil?)
Ah catarina
Weirdest tracks since I have been tracking ( 2017- present) Leslie 2018 Paulette 2020 Eta 2020 Pablo 2019. Bebinca 2018
I would also add Bouchra 2018 to that as well (in the Southwest Indian Ocean)
@@lars1228 Almost every storm in that basin is wierd but yeah
Opheilia, ended up in Ireland.
I thought 5 feet of rain from Harvey was crazy but that’s small compared to 6 METERS
I remember hurricane Dorian in 2019 when it sat over the Bahamas with 185 to 190mph while stalling near Florida (I moved here in October 2019) before the storm reached category 1 it was expected to hit Florida but then it changed course and headed for the Bahamas and it sat there for almost 2 days while creeping near Miami and Fort Lauderdale with 185mph,
I also remember hurricane Ian with 155mph when it slowly moved over Florida and it kept changing paths and it went back into category 1 with 85mph minds and made another landfall in the Carolinas
Ian was very normal track-wise
@Tvold I remember when I heard about Cyclone Freddy when it formed near Indonesia and did a 5000 mile journey to Madagascar and Slammed Mozambique and Malawi and it hit Madagascar for the 2nd time and then it turned back and hit Mozambique again
@@elsaluna3951 That was this year, weird storm
@@tvold9204 yeah, I also remember when Hurricane/Typhoon John lasted 31 days back in 1994 (I wasn't even born in 1994, I was born in 2004)
Where did you get the NHC Advisory on John?
Yeah I Can't Find it
Nadine and Wilma (pacific) come to mind for me
I remember Wilma very well, she's an unforgettable memory etched in my mind, because she nearly took our apartment down around us in West Palm Beach. I saw our large plate glass window 'breathing' in and out by roughly 4 inches; how it didn't shatter I don't know, but thankfully it didn't and we rode that storm out with what was minor damage all told.
@@e.graceoldstoneroses9947 Glad you made it out well, however, "FruDe Games" was talking about Tropical Depression Wilma of 2013 in the Western Pacific...not Major Hurricane Wilma of 2005 in the North Atlantic.
@@TheHyperTuber-VantaBlack LoL! Totally missed that...there's only one Wilma for me and I met her in 2005. Thanks for letting me know!
@@e.graceoldstoneroses9947 No problem! But glad to hear you got out of Wilma alive.
@@TheHyperTuber-VantaBlack yeah
Hurricane Elena 1985 worth an honerable mention. Formed as a tropical cyclone over land (Cuba), curved north into the Gulf, headed for NE Florida before stalling just offshore, did a small loop then headed WNW into the Golf coast near Biloxi. Must have been a forecasters nightmare at the time.
mine is imelda 2019 it was formed right by the shore as a tropical storm and ophelia 2005 it was like looooop
Now i see why hinano got no.1
recommended leaving a trail on the map of the typhoon/cyclone path.
Damn I was hoping to see Hurricane Seven from 1886 somewhere! Not only did it hit Newfoundland as a Cat 1 but it made an almost perfect 'S'
So based on Lenny I would expect Milton on this list in a newer video
I'd like to give a shout out to Hurricane Faith (1966): the most northward travelling hurricane. The NOAA archives supposedly have it maintaining Cat 2 status before hitting the Faroe Islands as a Cat 1 and only then becoming extratropical. I dispute this, however, given that remote sensing was in its infancy, and strong suspect it became extratropical much sooner. The extratropical remnants were tracked over Russia until they dissipated near the Arctic. An incredible storm!
Just found reanalysis data that suggests Faith was extratropical at 45 degrees North, which makes a lot more sense. But still this was a powerful.ex hurricane which had a tremendously long track!
The weirdest storms that i know are: Typhoon wayne, hurricane ivan, hurricane leslie, hurricane eta, cyclone leon-eline,cyclone hudah,tropical low elia, cyclone monica, cyclone catarina
Yes
cyclone catarina isn't since it encountered rare favourable conditions
Nathan Foy’s name for his kids if he does have kids (male and female):
1st kid: Andrew/Allison
2nd kid: Bret/Bonnie
3rd kid: Charley/Camille
4th kid: Dorian/Danielle
5th kid: Ernesto/Emily
6th kid: Felix/Florence
7th kid: Gustav/Gabrielle
8th kid: Harvey/Hanna
9th kid: Ivan/Irma
10th kid: Jose/Jeanne
11th kid: Karl/Katrina
12th kid: Lee/Laura
13th kid: Matthew/Maria
14th kid: Nate/Noel
15th kid: Otto/Ophelia
16th kid: Pablo/Paulette
17th kid: Rafael/Rita
18th kid: Stan/Sandy
19th kid: Tomas/Tammy
20th kid: Vince/Vicky
21st kid: William/Wilma
S t o p my brain is hurting
I can't claim surprise that it's not on here, but Hurricane Agnes in 1972 was definitely strange. First, it formed OVER LAND, forming as a tropical depression over the Yucatan Peninsula when two weather systems interacted there. After moving into the Caribbean it was unremarkable for a while, barely reaching hurricane strength, making landfall in the Florida panhandle, and quickly weakening into a tropical depression over Georgia. But it stopped weakening, stayed tropical as it crossed Georgia and South Carolina, and then _restrengthened over land_ in North Carolina, becoming a tropical storm again _before_ moving back over water in the Atlantic. Even after becoming extratropical soon after landfall near NYC, it wouldn't go away, looping around the eastern seaboard for almost three days and dumping ridiculous amounts of rain, especially in central and western PA (some areas saw total rainfall of 19 inches and floods exceeding 30 feet).
1.) Eta (2020) - because after smashing Nicaragua, it remained into tropical storm status for a few days and landfalled in florida.
2.) Noru (2017) - long-lived storm
3.) Wayne (1986) - stayed in the West Philippine Sea for a few weeks
4. Catarina (2004) - A weird south atlantic hurricane
5. Lionrock (2016) - The track's weird for me tho...
6. Parma (2003) - One large loop
7. Ophelia (2017) - Easternmost major
8. Lorenzo (2019) - Easternmost Cat 5
9. Lenny (1999) - Weird west-to-east track
10. Faith (1966) - Longest track in the Atlantic & 2nd overall, and the northernmost latitude.
11. John (1994) - longest track in the Pacific and overall
12. Vamei (2001-02) - track near equator
If you included Eta then you should have donee the same with Mitch, which did the same move as Eta if you look it up
Wilma (2013) formed in Pacific and travel up to the Arabian peninsula.
@@TjSamson yeah
What about Kyle 2002
ATL: Rita was retired in 2005 because its was devastating to land
WPAC: 😲
"Rita Forms in Western Pacific in 1974"
WPAC: *HØLY SHEET*
Rita: Don't worry WPAC
Okinawa Islands: WTF is this?!
What about my favorite
Hurricane Catarina
in south america, 2004!!
Also what is that storms name in africa
at 15:35?
Good point
Super underrated storm.
After researching, it was probably a storm in 1950, or 1991... but there’s barely any sources so I probably doubt it
6:42 Lenny be like: I don't give a damn about science
Typhoon #13 is like a guy who does not like asking for directions
cyclone freddy broke hurricane johns record for longest lasting storm
Cyclone Freddy is laughing right now
Arlene 2023 would belong here: MOVING SOUTH
Eta, Wayne, Vamei & Ginger are definitely up there for me
freddy: hold my beer, I'll survive two landfalls and make a third
I honestly thought hurricane isidore(2002) would make it into this top. As someone who lived through it, i can tell how strange its trayectory really was. It formed near venezuela and metheologysts predicted it to eventually pass the yucatan canal, and hit the us gulf of mexico coast like most other hurricanes. however, while it was heading towards usa, it made an extremely sudden change in its track, now directing diretly to the mexican state of Yucatan. We had around 24 hours to prepare. We went from expecting some rain from a random hurricane, to receiving a big strike from a powerful category 4. it hit directly the yucatan norht coast and went deep into the state, just for it to change its direction again and move exactly from where it came. It went through my city twice, and it caused massive destruction, not because of the strenght, but because of how little time we had to prepare and how impredictible it became to track it.
Hurricane John: "I'm gonna become a Category 5 Super Typhoon"
at 15:39, what is the data used for that map of historic track paths?
Cyclone Alby April 1978. Very late in the cyclone season, it came down the west Australian coast into the south west of the country and destroyed the longest pier in the Southern Hemisphere.
oh! is that the cyclone which affected perth, bunbury & Albany?
List of top ten
1972 Rita 0:10
1994 John 1:28
Legend says he’s still typing the list out.
@@Motavator264 😂😂
Typhoon Lionrock 2016
Typhoon Jongdari 2018
Noru 2017
Cyclone Catarina (atlantic)
Is also exceptional!
True. Near Brazil and in March.
man i thought leslie 2018 would be listed lol
Cat5hurricane Lorenzo it was 2018
Lorenzo impact
Ehh... I'd take out Inez & replace it with Kyle 2008. I'd also put Paulette, 2020, & Leslie, 2018, somewhere in this list.
how do these hurricanes manage to stall for so long? i'd figure that the cold water getting pulled up from below the warm waters would weaken it enough to disintegrate them. super good video also
I had the track of hurricane Lenny pulled up and was like “what is so weird about this track?” Then I say the screen and saw what way it was going and was like “OH”
I'm pretty sure a year or two ago there was a subtropical storm that hit Chile
Surprised the EPAC storm form 1975 did not make this list. Developed in an area in the Northern East Pacific where storms do not develop
How about the never ending Paulette in the Atlantic and also Eta from the Atlantic hurricane season.
So many suggestions here in the comments, I would like to add some.
1. Typhoon Hester (1952): the track was not particularly interesting, but it was a formidable Category 5 (185mph 950mb) in the Western Pacific on January 1. Probably the only northern hemisphere storm to cross the year as a Category 5.
2. Typhoon Alma (1946): again, not a particularly interesting track. However, its Wikipedia track suggests that it was tropical up to 52 degrees north near the Kamchatka Peninsula, and somehow even intensified into a Category 1 from a tropical storm. This is unseen anywhere else and possibly the farthest-north tropical cyclone in recorded history, as Faith (1966) was downgraded in reanalysis to an extratropical storm near the U.K.
Another honorable mention I haven't seen in the comments - Hurricane Jeanne of 2004. Definitely misled a lot of people believing this would be another out to sea storm, just to loop de loop back into central FL
What about Tropical Depression Wilma? Formed in the Pacific and managed to travel near to the Arabian peninsula?
That was certainly a strange one! Unfortunately when there’s over 14,000 storms in recorded history not every strange one can make it into a top 10 even if they’re very unusual!
Someone should've given Cyclone Winston some peanut butter, then he'd calm down.
Next time you make videos like this about tracks it would be great if you included a line following it maybe color coded like the pressure scale used in models
cyclone freddy should be added
There must have been a lot of blocking highs with the cyclones. Especially with the ones that stalled. Multiple times
at 15:37 there is a storm track in south africa what is that
In my opinion Tropical Storm Norbert in 2020 was the weirdest track ever
I think Typhoon/STY Typhoon Vamei should join cause it is caused in the equatir
Only a tropical storm vamei but its ok
also recommend showing wind speed in metric too for the "occasional" international viewer.
checking on Feb 1st, 2022. There is an invest close to where Hinano developed. Currently located at 28.2S 127.7W
That was awesome! So interesting!
What about hurricane flora??? It was standing in Cuba for a couple days..
Definitely weird, but not one of the weirdest of all time.
Mine would be Typhoon Tembin (2012) that has U-turn because of Fujiwhara Effects from nearby Typhoon Bolaven. It made landfall twice in Southern Taiwan.
Another strange one was a cyclone, passing very close to Australian coastline for days, before making landfall as Category 1 cyclone. I forgot the name and year.
Yeah, i remember tembin (Was it Julian or Igme local name), it went back to the PAR and batanes
@@juliusnepos6013 Igme, Julian for Bolaven
I think the Australian cyclone you were talking about was Cyclone Iris
@@juliusnepos6013 maybe? It formed W of Bay of Carpentaria, then made landfall several times while acrossing that Bay. And finally made landfall on Western Australia
@@hiitsme1725 not Oswald, but I think its not too eratic.
Edit: It's TC Steve (1999). Sorry to bothering you guys
There's more interesting ones. This one had 3 different naming, but also did not know its name. Is South Pacific cyclones.
Another worthy strange cyclone track:
Cyclone Rewa
On the African coast of the South Atlantic you can see track??
Decent video! But maybe some helpful tips.
1. Background music is way too loud. Can barely hear you.
2. Slow down a bit. Speak with a bit more resonance.
Thanks again for the content
I CANT WITH THE SPEED OF MERCURIES LITTLE LEGS AND ARMS RUNNING- ITS SO FUNNY
To be honest, the weirdest and rarest cyclone ever is hurricane Catarina
Check in google
This was cool! Fun to watch.
I thought TS Fay from the 2008 season would make the list, it made landfall in Florida 4 times.
I don't know why do we need to premiere them again. Just upload everything from Hurricane Week at once since we saw them at Hurricane Week.
Probably for the ones that weren't at hurricane week.
imagine if a storm's track made the word YEET
What's the song on the start of the video called
OMG I’m exited to watch this video
If you make a 2nd one pleas add hurricane η Eta 2020
Imo this should've been a top 20
Yeah
The first ones were the most interesting and the last ones were gradually more meh.
Noru 2017 was a weird one.
Hi coley I agree with Hinano, it was such a interesting storm...
I think that Typhoon Rai (Odette) also had a bit of a strange track It went much further South in the Philippines compared to where landfalling typhoons usually go in the Philippines, especially a Typhoon of that intensity. Also the 2 rapid intensifications including one after it had already weakened after barreling through the Philippines. Then instead of making landfall in Vietnam (which it would have been devastating as a category 5 landfall) it curved North and then northwestward and then died in the Amihan winds. I still think LA Nina had something to do with it. I know that LA Nina usually inhibits the storm development but this storm, once it was past that develpmentphase, it fed off those warmer waters piling up in the Eastern Pacific brought by the stronger the normal easterly trade winds in a LaNina.
Most of the storms in December are located further south than the storms in June - October.
Bopha 2012 and Washi 2011 are examples of it.
Bopha did the exact same thing kinda
Bopha went even more south, rapidly intensified in the South China Sea and then collapsed as it neared Luzon
@@aron1332 also kai tak and tembin 2017
I bet hurricane catarina is in this video!
Definitely a unique storm but it didn't make the cut this time around!
@@Forcethirteen oh it's ok!
What about these storms?
Cyclone Agni (2004)
Hurricane Barry (2019)
1975 Pacific Northwest hurricane
Hurricane Martha (1969)
Cyclone Kelvin (2018)
Subtropical Cyclone Katie (2015)
Cyclone Elita (2004)
Cyclone Leon-Eline (2000)
Cyclone Katrina (1998)
Hurricane Vince (2005)
Hurricane Alex (2016)
Cyclone Fabio (2007)
Cyclone Fantala (2016)
Cyclone Sagar (2018)
Tropical Depression Wilma (2013)
Hurricane Leslie (2018)
1996 Lake Huron cyclone
Hurricane Ginger (1971)
Cyclone Rewa (1993-1994)
Cyclone Owen (2018)
2006 Central Pacific cyclone
Subtropical Storm Lexi (2018)
Tropical Storm Rolf (2011)
Hurricane Catarina (2004)
Cyclone Keila (2011)
Hurricane Otto (2016)
Hurricane Paloma (2008)
Wow this is cool force thirteen
Nobody’s gonna mention Hurricane Ivan’s track?
2004 Hurricane Ivan could deserve a spot on this list. Thanks to it's large loop, it managed to make landfall in the USA three times.
Who thinks that Eta's track should be on there?
I thought Ivan (2004) would be here. Made landfall in the gulf, came off the coast in Virginia, went backwards down the Gulf Stream current, crossed Florida, and made landfall in Texas, making what might be the biggest loop of all time.
Parma made a bigger one back in 2003
I was in the cat 5 harvey and then almost irma hit us
yeah
@@oowateedegadaga7618 Harvey wasn’t a 5 though.
I thought the lake superior hurricane, Ophelia (the one that hit the UK), as well as Hurricane Catarina would be on here. Alice makes the cut on my list for it being part of two hurricane seasons.