Hurricane Orren

Hurricane Orren was an erratic Cape Verde hurricane that was the most powerful, most intense, and most destructive hurricane ever to be recorded in the Atlantic basin, occurring in throughout September and into October in the 2025 hurricane season. Joules started as a very organised system of thunderstorms over the Cape Verde Islands, and on September 6 it was declared Tropical Storm Orren. The storm rapidly intensified and, whilst approaching the Leeward Islands, it achieved Category 4 status, and made landfall on the island of Barbados as a Category 5. Wind shear levels next to 0 throughout the storm’s track and sea surface temperatures that were always 30-32 degrees celsius allowed the storm to transform into a record-breaking storm, with record 1-minute sustained winds of 205 mph and a record pressure of 866 mb, with a 1.1 mile-wide eye, the smallest eye ever recorded in the world. The hurricane devastated Barbados, Texas, and western Florida before making landfall for the first time in the British Isles as a Category 2 hurricane, before wreaking havoc in London as a Category 1. The storm killed almost 30,000 people and is tied as the longest-lasting storm ever, with Hurricane Faith of 1967.