Hurricane Philippe (Xtyphooncyclonex)

Hurricane Philippe was an extremely powerful and catastrophic Cape Verde type hurricane that was the costliest natural disaster and among the deadliest to hit the United States and the Antilles, as well as the most intense observed in the Atlantic, surpassing Hurricane Wilma in 2005. It was also the most intense Atlantic hurricane to strike the United States in recorded history.

The sixteenth named storm, ninth hurricane, and sixth major hurricane of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, Philippe began its distant journey as a tropical wave over Guinea monitored by the National Hurricane Center on October 28. After emerging over the coast, the wave was then upgraded into a tropical depression several hours later, before being upgraded into Tropical Storm Philippe shortly. On October 30, Philippe became a hurricane at 10°N, among the southernmost on record. Philippe steadily intensified while following a west-northwesterly path. As Philippe encountered record warm sea surface temperatures, its rate of intensification began to increase dramatically and following rapid intensification, Philippe was upgraded to a category 5 and continued prior to becoming the strongest hurricane since Wilma, with winds of 185 miles per hour (298 km/h) and a pressure of

On November 9, 2017,