Mayabeque, Cuba: storm history

63 storms have passed within 50 km of Mayabeque from 1851 to 2024. The map shows Cuba; search for a town in Mayabeque to see storms near it.

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Years1842 to 2026
Ocean basin

Choosing a minimum category hides storms with no wind speed in the record. To see which storms have passed near you, search a town or ZIP code, or tap the map.

Key
  • Tropical depression Winds below 34 knots (39 mph)
  • Tropical storm 34 to 63 knots (39 to 73 mph)
  • Category 1 64 to 82 knots (74 to 95 mph)
  • Category 2 83 to 95 knots (96 to 110 mph)
  • Category 3 96 to 112 knots (111 to 129 mph), major
  • Category 4 113 to 136 knots (130 to 156 mph), major
  • Category 5 137 knots (157 mph) or more, major
  • Unknown intensity No wind speed in the record
  • Post-tropical Storm has become post-tropical (dashed line)

How to read the lines. Each line is the track of one storm, drawn through its six-hourly positions and coloured by its intensity at each point (the Saffir-Simpson scale), so a line changes colour as the storm strengthens or weakens. Tap a line for its details, or tap anywhere else to see which storms have passed nearby. Weaker storms appear as you zoom in. Hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones are the same kind of storm with different names in different oceans.

Storms near Mayabeque

The record holds 63 tropical cyclones whose tracks passed within 50 km of Mayabeque, Cuba between 1851 and 2024. The busiest month is October, with 25 of them. The strongest, measured where each came closest to the place, reached category 4 strength. 5 of the storms have no wind speed in the record.

  • 63storms within 50 km
  • 11major (category 3 to 5) near here
  • 26at category 1 strength or more

A storm counts once, however many times it came close. The category is the storm's strongest point within 50 km, which can be weaker than its peak elsewhere.

How strong were the storms near Mayabeque?

Category near hereStormsShare
Tropical depression1016%
Tropical storm2235%
Category 1813%
Category 2711%
Category 3914%
Category 423%
Category 500%
Unknown intensity58%

The agency behind most of the intensity figures here is the NOAA National Hurricane Center (HURDAT2, Atlantic).

Mayabeque storms over time

Storms by decade
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 7 in 1890s.1850s1870s1890s1910s1930s1950s1980s2000s2020s

The 2020s only run to 2024, so that bar is for a shorter period. This place's record starts in 1851, and records before the satellite era (about the 1960s) are far less complete.

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PeriodCount
1850s2
1860s3
1870s4
1880s5
1890s7
1900s3
1910s2
1920s2
1930s2
1940s4
1950s3
1960s4
1980s6
1990s6
2000s4
2010s3
2020s3

Earlier decades hold fewer storms partly because they were harder to see. Before weather satellites (about the 1960s) many storms that stayed at sea went unrecorded, so compare decades with care.

Storms by month
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 25 in Oct.Jan0Feb0Mar0Apr0May2Jun5Jul3Aug10Sep13Oct25Nov5Dec0
Show the numbers
PeriodCount
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May2
Jun5
Jul3
Aug10
Sep13
Oct25
Nov5
Dec0

Strongest storms near Mayabeque

  • Unnamed storm of October 1926 (North Atlantic)14 October 1926 to 28 October 1926, peak Category 4 (130 kt), 934 hPa
  • Dennis (2005)4 July 2005 to 18 July 2005, peak Category 4 (130 kt), 930 hPa
  • Unnamed storm of September 1948 (North Atlantic)18 September 1948 to 26 September 1948, Category 3 (110 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (115 kt), 940 hPa
  • Unnamed storm of October 1948 (North Atlantic)3 October 1948 to 16 October 1948, peak Category 3 (110 kt), 971 hPa
  • Unnamed storm of October 1906 (North Atlantic)8 October 1906 to 23 October 1906, peak Category 3 (105 kt), 953 hPa

Most recent storms near Mayabeque

  • Rafael (2024)3 November 2024 to 10 November 2024, peak Category 3 (105 kt), 954 hPa
  • Debby (2024)2 August 2024 to 10 August 2024, Tropical storm (35 kt) near here, peak Category 1 (70 kt), 980 hPa
  • Elsa (2021)30 June 2021 to 10 July 2021, Tropical storm (55 kt) near here, peak Category 1 (75 kt), 991 hPa

Many of these storms killed people and destroyed homes. The figures are the official record's, and this page says nothing about their human cost.

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