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Hurricane Mitch

Hurricane Mitch was a Category 5 Atlantic hurricane of late 1998 that devastated Honduras and Nicaragua, killing roughly 11,000 people, the second-deadliest in Atlantic history.

Hurricane name retirement criteria

Hurricane name retirement is the permanent removal of a deadly or destructive storm's name from rotating lists, decided by the WMO's RA IV Hurricane Committee.

Hurricane Nicole

Hurricane Nicole was a category 1 hurricane active November 7 to 11, 2022, that hit the Bahamas and Florida near Vero Beach, causing about $1 billion in damage.

Hurricane Odile was a Category 4 Pacific hurricane that hit the southern Baja California peninsula in September 2014, devastating Los Cabos and becoming the region's most destructive hurricane on record.

Hurricane Oscar (2024)

Hurricane Oscar (2024) was a compact Category 1 hurricane that struck the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Bahamas, and eastern Cuba, killing at least seven people.

Hurricane Otis

Hurricane Otis was a Category 5 hurricane that made landfall near Acapulco, Mexico, on October 25, 2023, after one of the fastest intensifications ever recorded, killing at least 52 people.

Hurricane Patricia

Hurricane Patricia was an eastern Pacific hurricane of October 2015 that set the record for tropical cyclone winds, 215 mph, before a Category 5 landfall in Jalisco, Mexico.

Hurricane Pauline

Hurricane Pauline, known in Mexico as Paulina, was a Category 4 Pacific hurricane that struck Mexico's southern coast in October 1997, dropping record rain on Acapulco and killing hundreds.

Hurricane Rafael

Hurricane Rafael was a Category 3 hurricane that made landfall in western Cuba in November 2024, knocking out the national power grid and causing over $1 billion in damage.

Hurricane Research Division

The Hurricane Research Division, founded as the National Hurricane Research Project in 1955, is a NOAA unit in Florida that flies Hurricane Hunter aircraft to improve hurricane forecasting.

Hurricane Ridge Ski and Snowboard Area

Hurricane Ridge Ski and Snowboard Area, run by the Hurricane Ridge Winter Sports Club, is a nonprofit ski area in Olympic National Park, Washington. Opened 1958, it has two rope tows and a Poma lift, no chairlifts, and lost its day lodge to fire in 2023.

Hurricane Rita

Hurricane Rita was a powerful Category 5 Atlantic hurricane of 2005 that devastated southwestern Louisiana and southeastern Texas with an estimated $9.4 billion in damage.

Hurricane Sally

Hurricane Sally was a Category 2 hurricane that struck Gulf Shores, Alabama, on September 16, 2020, moving so slowly it dropped up to 30 inches of rain, causing $7.3 billion in damage.

Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy, also known as Superstorm Sandy, was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, striking New Jersey in October 2012 and causing more than $50 billion in losses.

Hurricane shutter

A hurricane shutter, also called a storm shutter, is a protective covering over windows and doors that blocks windborne debris during hurricanes and similar windstorms.

Hurricane Stan

Hurricane Stan was a small Category 1 hurricane of the record 2005 Atlantic season that struck southern Mexico, killing over 1,000 people through floods and landslides across Central America.

Hurricane Tomas

Hurricane Tomas was a Category 2 Atlantic hurricane of October and November 2010 that struck the Windward Islands and passed near Haiti, causing 43 deaths.

Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting model

The Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting model (HWRF) was NOAA's storm-following regional model providing track and intensity guidance for tropical cyclones from 2007 to 2023, when HAFS replaced it.

Hurricane Wilma

Hurricane Wilma was the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record, with 882 mb pressure and 185 mph winds, striking Mexico's Yucatan and Florida in October 2005.

Hurricane Wisdom

Hurricane Wisdom (Wisdom Oluola, born 2004) is a Florida rapper from Havana known for melodic pain music; breakout "Giannis" (2024), gold-certified, Billboard 200 albums Perfect Storm (2025) and Weathering the World (2026), 2026 XXL Freshman.

Hurricanes (rugby union)

Hurricanes: Wellington-based New Zealand Super Rugby union franchise, founded 1996 for the Super 12. Two titles (2016, 2026); played the competition's first match; record 113-try 2026 season.

Hurricanna

Hurricanna is a 2025 American biographical drama about Anna Nicole Smith's final 48 hours, directed by Francesca Gregorini, starring Sylvia Hoeks and Holly Hunter, premiering at Provincetown and set for limited U.S. release January 8, 2027.

Hurriedly

Hurriedly (匆匆, Congcong) is a prose poem on the passage of time by the Chinese essayist Zhu Ziqing, written in 1922 and among the most widely read works of modern Chinese prose.

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Hurrikan

Hurrikan (Hurrican) is a German two-player card game of the 1930s, a variant of Italian Scopa published by ASS Altenburg: 40-card deck, hearts as bonus suit, Premiere scoring, 16-point target, table-clearing sweeps called Hurrikan.

Hürriyet Kasidesi

Hürriyet Kasidesi, also called "Ode to Freedom," is a 31-couplet Ottoman Turkish ode by Namık Kemal written in 1867, turning the classical praise poem toward freedom and homeland.

Hurro-Urartian languages

Hurro-Urartian is an extinct Ancient Near East language family of two languages, Hurrian and Urartian, attested in cuneiform from the late third to first millennium BCE; agglutinative, ergative, and generally treated as an isolate.

Hurry Up Tomorrow

Hurry Up Tomorrow, the Weeknd's sixth studio album (XO/Republic, January 31, 2025), closes the After Hours/Dawn FM trilogy; No. 1 in the US and UK with 490,500 first-week units, guests include Lana Del Rey and Playboi Carti.

Hurry Up Tomorrow (film)

Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025) is a psychological thriller directed by Trey Edward Shults, starring Abel Tesfaye (The Weeknd), Jenna Ortega, and Barry Keoghan; a Lionsgate companion piece to Tesfaye's album, inspired by his 2022 SoFi Stadium voice loss, which flopped with a $3.3 million opening and 14% on Rotten Tomatoes.