Hurricane Katia was a classic Cape Verde hurricane that had substantial impact across Europe as a post-tropical cyclone. The eleventh named storm, second hurricane, and second major hurricane of the active 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, Katia originated as a tropical depression from a tropical wave over the eastern Atlantic on August 29. It intensified into a tropical storm the following day and further developed into a hurricane by September 1, although unfavorable atmospheric conditions hindered strengthening thereafter. As the storm began to recurve over the western Atlantic, a more hospitable...

The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season is an ongoing event in the annual formation of tropical cyclones in the Atlantic basin, the most destructive since 2005. It has featured Hurricane Harvey, the first major hurricane to make landfall in the contiguous United States since Wilma, and a storm which produced 51.88 in (1,318 mm) of rainfall in Texas, the highest-ever rainfall total for any Atlantic tropical cyclone in the United States and the fifth highest rainfall total for a tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin. It has also hosted Hurricane Irma, the strongest hurricane ever to form in the Atlantic...