Weather history

Path of Hurricane Wilma.
The second week of October 2005, a large and complex area of low pressure developed over the western Atlantic and eastern Caribbean, with several areas of thunderstorms. This area of disturbed weather, southwest of Jamaica, was slowly organizing into a tropical depression within 24 hours on October 15.
Subsequently, he became a strong tropical storm at 5 on October 17th EDT (0900 UTC). Hurricane Wilma was the first in history to receive a name beginning with "W" from the alphabetical denomination began in 1950 and tied the record for most storms in a season that had so far in 1933. The mechanism of the storm was a slow moving warm water that was reinforced continuously until it became a hurricane on October 18. This made him the 12th-fifth hurricane of the season and equal the record established in the 1969 season
The Wilma began a rapid intensification in the afternoon of day 18, approximately 16 EDT (2000 UTC). From 3:54 EDT (1954 UTC) of day 18 until 2:11 EDT (0611 UTC) of day 19 was measured by a drop in pressure of 78 hPa from 970 hPa to 892 hPa, respectively, over a period of 10 hours. 25 hours later, at 1:56 EDT (0556 UTC) until October 19 at 2:11 EDT (0611 UTC), the pressure fell from 982 to 892 hPa, which means a drop of 90 hPa. At the same time, Wilma strengthened from 110 km / h from a tropical storm to become a powerful category 5 hurricane with winds reaching 280 km / h.
Note: The Atlantic Hurricane Gilbert (1988) had a drop of 3 hPa / h from 960 to 888 hPa within 24 h.
Hurricane Wilma at 11:55 a.m. local time (EDT) on October 18, 2005.
On October 21, Wilma made landfall on the Yucatan Peninsula as a powerful Category 4 hurricane with winds above 250 my. / H. The eye of the hurricane first step on the island of Cozumel, before having his first "official" on the peninsula near Playa del Carmen in the state of Quintana Roo. Some parts of Cozumel experienced the calm eye of Wilma for several hours, with blue skies and sunny times. The eye was moving slowly northward, passing just west of Cancun. Several parts of the Yucatan peninsula hurricane had winds of more than 24 consecutive hours, with a distance of 6 km / h which lengthens the time that Hurricane Wilma in Cancun began to accelerate in the early hours of October 23, abandonment of the peninsula and the northeast corner of the Gulf of Mexico as a Category 2 hurricane.
The southeastern wall of the eye of a hurricane passed the area of Key West (South of the Florida Keys) in the morning of October 24. By then, half the eye of Hurricane Wilma about 56 km (35 miles) in diameter. The northern part of the eye crossed the south and central Palm Beach County, after which the system made a diagonal path toward the southern portion of the peninsula of Florida. Some cities in the south of Florida, including Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Miami, suffered severe damage as a result of the winds of Hurricane Wilma.
Despite the strong shear in the Gulf, Hurricane Wilma reintensificarse until they reach a category 3 before landfall in Florida. The trip on the peninsula only slightly weakened the storm, which is internal in the Atlantic Ocean as a Category 2 storm about six hours after landfall.
Unexpectedly, Wilma intensified to achieve return on the Gulf and returned to level 3 north of the Bahamas to recover all the strength he had lost in the last 12 hours. However, the October 25 the hurricane began to weaken gradually and became extratropical later. This happened the same day south of Nova Scotia retained even when the storm intensity and I felt his side winds on a large area encompassing the states of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New England area in the United States and some parts of Canada.