Before Oscar, the smallest Atlantic storm on record was Tropical Storm Marco in 2008, the Weather Network said. Though Oscar officially peaked as a Category 1 hurricane this weekend, "very-high ...
Oscar unexpectedly and rapidly intensified into a hurricane on Saturday as it moved through the southwestern Atlantic Ocean.
This is not the smallest tropical cyclone—as defined by sustained winds greater than 39 mph, or 63 kph—as that record remains held by Tropical Storm Marco back in 2008. However, this may ...
It’s still not the smallest tropical cyclone on record, though. Tropical Storm Marco, which formed in the Bay of Campeche in October 2008, had tropical storm-force winds that only reached 11.5 ...
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Hurricane Oscar, now downgraded to a tropical storm over Cuba, was the smallest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin.
(The smallest Atlantic storm on record was Tropical Storm Marco in 2008.) Oscar’s diminutive size evaded detection by ...