Top 10 Strangest Hurricanes of All Time 

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I thought Ivan (2004) would be here. Made landfall in the gulf, came off the coast in Virginia, went backwards down the Gulf Stream current, crossed Florida, and made landfall in Texas, making what might be the biggest loop of all time.

God: How many times do you want to become a category 2 storm? Typhoon Rita: Yes

Sandy in 2012 not only had a weird track but it literally went through the 4th wall. It merged with a blizzard like snowstorm that crippled the northeast. New York City especially around Lower Manhattan was flooded. The storm damage was massive and nearly 233 people died. It cost $70 billion in damages to eight countries.

Number 0: Cyclone Freddy (2023)

I thought Hurricane Faith from the 1966 Atlantic season was possibly the strangest track ever. The remnants nearly made it to the north pole!

Hurricane Sandy deserves to be on the list despite having some extra tropical characteristics just before landfall in New Jersey. Hurricanes don’t track northeast of Cape Hatteras then hook a hard left into NJ. Extremely anomalous and forecasters must’ve been scratching their heads looking at the EURO forecast track a few days before.

Now this is a video I want to see.

I’ve always wondered if a single hurricane could form off Cape Verde, hit Central America, reintensify in the Pacific, make it all the way across to hit Indochina, reintensify again in the Bay of Bengal, hit India, reintensify once more in the Arabian Sea, and hit Eastern Africa or the Arabian peninsula where it would finally dissipate.

Harvey's track was so shocking. I live on the NE side of San Antonio, Texas and it was headed right for us. I remember seeing an ugly line of squalls with 60 mph winds come through, and then everything stopped and I wondered WTF? Harvey turned right back around and went into the gulf and then started creeping along the coast to Houston. I was expecting pretty nasty flooding when we were told to be ready for up to 20 inches or so if I remember right, but that one squall only lasted about 30 minutes and that was it. NW side of San Antonio didn't even get any rain. Twenty miles east of me though in Seguin they got a foot of rain from Harvey. I think we only ended up with 4 or 5 inches of rain in that one squall line in my area.

Mine is definitely td wilma, formed in the pacific ocean, then traveled as far as the arabian sea.

John’s records were recently broken with cyclone Freddy 😂

Honorable mentions: Mitch, Ivan, Sandy, Harvey, Ophelia (2017), Florence, Sergio (2018), Leslie (2018), Mekunu, Paulette (2020), Eta

Sandys leftward turn in 2012 was weird for me. Live in NJ.

My favourite storm in terms of weird tracks is Cyclone Katrina-Victor-Cindy (1998). The circulation in some form persisted for over 50 days.

Hinano was an interesting anomaly 😁 Could you also do a top 10 shortest but destructive tracked storms or top 10 tiny storms ?

The weirdest storm tracks for me are the storms that loop around. It’s just strange for me

The weirdest track I've ever seen since I'm tracking hurricanes is Leslie track in 2018 (and Eta 2020 the 2nd ofc !)

1:45 until Freddy beats John

What about my favorite Hurricane Catarina in south america, 2004!! Also what is that storms name in africa at 15:35?

ATL: Rita was retired in 2005 because its was devastating to land WPAC: 😲 "Rita Forms in Western Pacific in 1974" WPAC: *HØLY SHEET* Rita: Don't worry WPAC Okinawa Islands: WTF is this?!

Weirdest tracks since I have been tracking ( 2017- present) Leslie 2018 Paulette 2020 Eta 2020 Pablo 2019. Bebinca 2018

15:34 I need to know about that cyclone over southern Africa.

Cyclone Freddy is laughing right now

Hurricane John: "I'm gonna become a Category 5 Super Typhoon"

Most of the storms that have erratic tracks in the Northern Hemisphere thinks that they are in the Southern Hemisphere.

Hurricane Juan 1985 was an unusual track. Looped twice in Louisiana and made final landfall in Pensacola

What about the only hurricane to form in the southern Atlantic in recorded history (struck Brazil?)

Cyclone Rewa in South Pacific, december 1993 & January 1994 was strange. It formed on the north of coral sea, intensified into a cat. 4 across his track to the south, but he made a turn to the east and landed in New Caledonia as a tropical storm, but it decided to go at the north and make a big loop in coral sea, reintensifying as a cat.4, after making another little loop. Finally, it go southwest near the Australia as a tropical storm and dissipated.

That was awesome! So interesting!

Typhoon #13 is like a guy who does not like asking for directions

This was cool! Fun to watch.

The one storm you missed was 2004 storm hurricane catarina in the southern atlantic! super rare and maybe should have made this list

mine is imelda 2019 it was formed right by the shore as a tropical storm and ophelia 2005 it was like looooop

cyclone freddy broke hurricane johns record for longest lasting storm

Damn I was hoping to see Hurricane Seven from 1886 somewhere! Not only did it hit Newfoundland as a Cat 1 but it made an almost perfect 'S'

Hurricane Elena 1985 worth an honerable mention. Formed as a tropical cyclone over land (Cuba), curved north into the Gulf, headed for NE Florida before stalling just offshore, did a small loop then headed WNW into the Golf coast near Biloxi. Must have been a forecasters nightmare at the time.

at 15:39, what is the data used for that map of historic track paths?

OMG I’m exited to watch this video

Nathan Foy’s name for his kids if he does have kids (male and female): 1st kid: Andrew/Allison 2nd kid: Bret/Bonnie 3rd kid: Charley/Camille 4th kid: Dorian/Danielle 5th kid: Ernesto/Emily 6th kid: Felix/Florence 7th kid: Gustav/Gabrielle 8th kid: Harvey/Hanna 9th kid: Ivan/Irma 10th kid: Jose/Jeanne 11th kid: Karl/Katrina 12th kid: Lee/Laura 13th kid: Matthew/Maria 14th kid: Nate/Noel 15th kid: Otto/Ophelia 16th kid: Pablo/Paulette 17th kid: Rafael/Rita 18th kid: Stan/Sandy 19th kid: Tomas/Tammy 20th kid: Vince/Vicky 21st kid: William/Wilma

I'd like to give a shout out to Hurricane Faith (1966): the most northward travelling hurricane. The NOAA archives supposedly have it maintaining Cat 2 status before hitting the Faroe Islands as a Cat 1 and only then becoming extratropical. I dispute this, however, given that remote sensing was in its infancy, and strong suspect it became extratropical much sooner. The extratropical remnants were tracked over Russia until they dissipated near the Arctic. An incredible storm!

Arlene 2023 would belong here: MOVING SOUTH

I can't claim surprise that it's not on here, but Hurricane Agnes in 1972 was definitely strange. First, it formed OVER LAND, forming as a tropical depression over the Yucatan Peninsula when two weather systems interacted there. After moving into the Caribbean it was unremarkable for a while, barely reaching hurricane strength, making landfall in the Florida panhandle, and quickly weakening into a tropical depression over Georgia. But it stopped weakening, stayed tropical as it crossed Georgia and South Carolina, and then _restrengthened over land_ in North Carolina, becoming a tropical storm again _before_ moving back over water in the Atlantic. Even after becoming extratropical soon after landfall near NYC, it wouldn't go away, looping around the eastern seaboard for almost three days and dumping ridiculous amounts of rain, especially in central and western PA (some areas saw total rainfall of 19 inches and floods exceeding 30 feet).

Wow this is cool force thirteen

I remember hurricane Dorian in 2019 when it sat over the Bahamas with 185 to 190mph while stalling near Florida (I moved here in October 2019) before the storm reached category 1 it was expected to hit Florida but then it changed course and headed for the Bahamas and it sat there for almost 2 days while creeping near Miami and Fort Lauderdale with 185mph, I also remember hurricane Ian with 155mph when it slowly moved over Florida and it kept changing paths and it went back into category 1 with 85mph minds and made another landfall in the Carolinas

how do these hurricanes manage to stall for so long? i'd figure that the cold water getting pulled up from below the warm waters would weaken it enough to disintegrate them. super good video also

6:42 Lenny be like: I don't give a damn about science

cyclone freddy should be added

1.) Eta (2020) - because after smashing Nicaragua, it remained into tropical storm status for a few days and landfalled in florida. 2.) Noru (2017) - long-lived storm 3.) Wayne (1986) - stayed in the West Philippine Sea for a few weeks 4. Catarina (2004) - A weird south atlantic hurricane 5. Lionrock (2016) - The track's weird for me tho... 6. Parma (2003) - One large loop 7. Ophelia (2017) - Easternmost major 8. Lorenzo (2019) - Easternmost Cat 5 9. Lenny (1999) - Weird west-to-east track 10. Faith (1966) - Longest track in the Atlantic & 2nd overall, and the northernmost latitude. 11. John (1994) - longest track in the Pacific and overall 12. Vamei (2001-02) - track near equator

Ehh... I'd take out Inez & replace it with Kyle 2008. I'd also put Paulette, 2020, & Leslie, 2018, somewhere in this list.

Eta, Wayne, Vamei & Ginger are definitely up there for me

The weirdest storms that i know are: Typhoon wayne, hurricane ivan, hurricane leslie, hurricane eta, cyclone leon-eline,cyclone hudah,tropical low elia, cyclone monica, cyclone catarina

Next time you make videos like this about tracks it would be great if you included a line following it maybe color coded like the pressure scale used in models

1:45 2023: *laughing demonically*

Where did you get the NHC Advisory on John?

freddy: hold my beer, I'll survive two landfalls and make a third

Someone should've given Cyclone Winston some peanut butter, then he'd calm down.

In my opinion Tropical Storm Norbert in 2020 was the weirdest track ever

man i thought leslie 2018 would be listed lol

And now.....we have the most erratic TCs on record. It will be listed on the top 10s. Cyclone Freddy, and it's still ongoing at this point.

I had the track of hurricane Lenny pulled up and was like “what is so weird about this track?” Then I say the screen and saw what way it was going and was like “OH”

Surprised the EPAC storm form 1975 did not make this list. Developed in an area in the Northern East Pacific where storms do not develop

Nadine and Wilma (pacific) come to mind for me

So many suggestions here in the comments, I would like to add some. 1. Typhoon Hester (1952): the track was not particularly interesting, but it was a formidable Category 5 (185mph 950mb) in the Western Pacific on January 1. Probably the only northern hemisphere storm to cross the year as a Category 5. 2. Typhoon Alma (1946): again, not a particularly interesting track. However, its Wikipedia track suggests that it was tropical up to 52 degrees north near the Kamchatka Peninsula, and somehow even intensified into a Category 1 from a tropical storm. This is unseen anywhere else and possibly the farthest-north tropical cyclone in recorded history, as Faith (1966) was downgraded in reanalysis to an extratropical storm near the U.K.

checking on Feb 1st, 2022. There is an invest close to where Hinano developed. Currently located at 28.2S 127.7W

Decent video! But maybe some helpful tips. 1. Background music is way too loud. Can barely hear you. 2. Slow down a bit. Speak with a bit more resonance. Thanks again for the content

What app do u use tell me plsw

Cyclone Alby April 1978. Very late in the cyclone season, it came down the west Australian coast into the south west of the country and destroyed the longest pier in the Southern Hemisphere.

also recommend showing wind speed in metric too for the "occasional" international viewer.

There must have been a lot of blocking highs with the cyclones. Especially with the ones that stalled. Multiple times

How about the never ending Paulette in the Atlantic and also Eta from the Atlantic hurricane season.

Cyclone Catarina (atlantic) Is also exceptional!

I'm pretty sure a year or two ago there was a subtropical storm that hit Chile

Hey! nice video!...but what about Hurricane Catarina?

nadine was like: hold up, **stalls**, i forgot something lemme go back

What about Tropical Depression Wilma? Formed in the Pacific and managed to travel near to the Arabian peninsula?

imagine if a storm's track made the word YEET

What's the song on the start of the video called

I thought TS Fay from the 2008 season would make the list, it made landfall in Florida 4 times.

recommended leaving a trail on the map of the typhoon/cyclone path.

List of top ten 1972 Rita 0:10 1994 John 1:28

I bet hurricane catarina is in this video!

Another hurricane had a really similar path to Nadine, being Leslie (2018)

at 15:37 there is a storm track in south africa what is that

Who thinks that Eta's track should be on there?

Hurricanes go " wheeeeeeeee"

Typhoon Lionrock 2016 Typhoon Jongdari 2018

On the African coast of the South Atlantic you can see track??

Nobody’s gonna mention Hurricane Ivan’s track?

I think that Typhoon Rai (Odette) also had a bit of a strange track It went much further South in the Philippines compared to where landfalling typhoons usually go in the Philippines, especially a Typhoon of that intensity. Also the 2 rapid intensifications including one after it had already weakened after barreling through the Philippines. Then instead of making landfall in Vietnam (which it would have been devastating as a category 5 landfall) it curved North and then northwestward and then died in the Amihan winds. I still think LA Nina had something to do with it. I know that LA Nina usually inhibits the storm development but this storm, once it was past that develpmentphase, it fed off those warmer waters piling up in the Eastern Pacific brought by the stronger the normal easterly trade winds in a LaNina.

To be honest, the weirdest and rarest cyclone ever is hurricane Catarina

If you make a 2nd one pleas add hurricane η Eta 2020

What about these storms? Cyclone Agni (2004) Hurricane Barry (2019) 1975 Pacific Northwest hurricane Hurricane Martha (1969) Cyclone Kelvin (2018) Subtropical Cyclone Katie (2015) Cyclone Elita (2004) Cyclone Leon-Eline (2000) Cyclone Katrina (1998) Hurricane Vince (2005) Hurricane Alex (2016) Cyclone Fabio (2007) Cyclone Fantala (2016) Cyclone Sagar (2018) Tropical Depression Wilma (2013) Hurricane Leslie (2018) 1996 Lake Huron cyclone Hurricane Ginger (1971) Cyclone Rewa (1993-1994) Cyclone Owen (2018) 2006 Central Pacific cyclone Subtropical Storm Lexi (2018) Tropical Storm Rolf (2011) Hurricane Catarina (2004) Cyclone Keila (2011) Hurricane Otto (2016) Hurricane Paloma (2008)

Mine would be Typhoon Tembin (2012) that has U-turn because of Fujiwhara Effects from nearby Typhoon Bolaven. It made landfall twice in Southern Taiwan. Another strange one was a cyclone, passing very close to Australian coastline for days, before making landfall as Category 1 cyclone. I forgot the name and year.

Hyacinthe was just convincing Madagascar to come to her candlelight supper

Check out the Tropical Storm then Typhoon Nari September 2001. This storm/Typhoon hit Okinawa not once but twice and hit late on September 11, 2001(Okinawa time). I was living in Okinawa with my husband who was in the US Navy and stationed on the island, my 1 year old, my parents. I was also pregnant at the time.

Imo this should've been a top 20

Is no one gonna think about Hurricane Leslie and whatever the hell that was doing?

How is it you don't actually show the complete track path on the map? I had to google each storm to see it....Still it was a good video!

Cyclone gati was a recent storm the likes of Hinano with unusual intensification in an area rarely trafficked by tropical cyclones