Hurricane Barnes

Hurricane Audrey was a devastating cyclone that affected South and West Florida. It was the first named storm and the first hurricane of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season.

Meteorological history
Hurricane Audrey was formed off the coast of Brazil as an extratropical storm. It soon passed over extremely favorable conditions, where it soon intensified as a Category 1 hurricane. It hit central Cuba with low Category 2 winds, at which it then went through a record-breaking intensification process, intensifying into an extremely high Category 5 hurricane in the span of 6 hours. It hit Southern Florida with 265 mile per hour winds, and swayed to the west. Now a Category 4 hurricane, it recuperated and intensified back into a Category 5 as it hit the Floridian panhandle and East Mississippi, before slowly weakening as it hit the inner states. It hit Southern Illinois before curving into the east, while becoming an extratropical system and dissipating off the coast of Newfoundland.