page_title: Tropical cyclones in 2005
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: Tropical cyclones in 2005 / Systems / October
caption_attribution_description: English: Hurricane Wilma at its record-breaking intensity on October 19, 2005 northeast of Honduras. At the time, maximum sustained winds were nearing 160 knots and the pressure was at 882 mbar, the lowest on record for a storm in the Atlantic.
context_page_description: During 2005, tropical cyclones formed within seven different tropical cyclone basins, located within various parts of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. During the year, a total of 141 systems formed with 94 of these developing further and were named by the responsible warning centre. The strongest tropical cyclone of the year was Hurricane Wilma, which was estimated to have a minimum barometric pressure of 882 hPa.
  The 2005 was above-average in terms of the number of storms. The most active basin in the year was the North Atlantic, which documented 28 named systems. The Western Pacific had an near-average season with 23 named storms. The Eastern Pacific hurricane season experienced an above average number of tropical storm intensity systems, numbering 15. Activity across the southern hemisphere's three basins - South-West Indian, Australian, and South Pacific - was fairly significant, with the regions recording 23 named storms altogether, with the most intense Southern Hemisphere cyclone of the year, Cyclone Percy from the South Pacific Ocean basin peaking at 145 mph and 900 millibars.
caption: Hurricane Wilma
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