1905 Atlantic hurricane season
The 1905 Atlantic hurricane season featured five known tropical cyclones, two of which made landfall in the United States. The first system was initially observed near the Windward Islands on September 6. The last system to dissipate, the fourth storm, transitioned into an extratropical cyclone on October 11, while located well southeast of Newfoundland. These dates fall within the period with the most tropical cyclone activity in the Atlantic. Of the season's five tropical cyclones, only one reached hurricane status, the fewest since 1890. Furthermore, that storm strengthened into a Category 3 major hurricane on the modern-day Saffir–Simpson scale. It attained hurricane strength on October 8, the latest first hurricane on record in an Atlantic season, only eclipsed by the 1907 and 1914 seasons, which had no hurricanes at all, and later tied in 2026. At least six fatalities were attributed to the system, which sent a rogue wave across the steerage of the Cunard steamer RMS Campania. The...
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