Hurricane Michelle

"Hurricane Michelle""Category 3"Hurricane Michelle was the 13th named storm of the 2025 season. A depression was reported by the NHC on August 29th at 5:23 PM near the coast of Columbia. "13" moved at about 10 miles per hour eventually upgrading to a tropical storm. Moving away from Columbia, Michelle slowly made a small circular path in the warm waters of the Caribbean upgrading to a Category 1. On August 30th at 9:22 PM, the NHC reported that Michelle had made landfall in Guayama located in Puerto Rico. After passing Puerto Rico in one day, it had been reported that 34 people had died in the storm and $3 billion in damage was done. Michelle traveled northwest towards Turks and Caicos Islands. Upgrading to a category 2, Michelle made a slight turn resulting in Turks and Caicos Islands being hit only by the outer bands creating some windy, rainy, and cloudy weather. Heading west, Hurricane Michelle was upgraded to a Category 3 before making landfall once again. This time, in the Bahamas. It was reported that there we're only 2 deaths and only $190 million was done in damage. Michelle downgraded to a category 2 while passing the Bahamas but quickly regained its strength upgrading to a Category 3 again before making landfall for the last time in Miami. CNN reported that their had been 37 deaths in Miami and 16 inches of rain had been accumulated. Evacuations we're ordered and many citizens we're able to evacuate fortunately. $2.3 billion had been done in damage. NASA delayed a historic rocket launch that would create space tourism about 5 times because of Hurricane Michelle. Hurricane Michelle downgraded to a category 2 over Orlando. Only minor damage had been done to the on-property hotels at the Walt Disney World Resort. Some flooding from the Buena Vista Lake had been reported in the Magic Kingdom park. Hurricane Michelle then downgraded to a category 1 over the Ocala National Forest which had been reported "unsafe" before the hurricane struck. Michelle quickly downgraded to a tropical storm and then dissipated over Macon,Georgia.