The deadliest hurricane ever..........1780, during the Little Ice Age and global cooling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hurricane_of_1780
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| Formed | October 9, 1780 |
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| Dissipated | October 20, 1780 |
| Highest winds | Gusts: 200 mph (325 km/h) |
| Fatalities | 22,000–27,501 (Deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record) |
| Areas affected | Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Bermuda, possibly East Florida and some U.S. states |
Strongest hurricane to ever hit the Northeast?
Great Colonial Hurricane in 1635............during global cooling and The Little Ice Age.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Colonial_Hurricane_of_1635
The Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635 was a severe hurricane which brushed Virginia and then passed over southeastern New England in August. Accounts of the storm are very limited, but it was likely the most intense hurricane to hit New England since European colonization
The Little Ice Age:
https://www.britannica.com/science/Little-Ice-Age
Worst hurricane season ever for the Mid Atlantic area/East Coast:
1954, when 3 major hurricanes hit the area in just 3 months(Carol, Edna, then the biggest one, Hazel)............during global cooling.
There was actually an extraordinarily rare late December hurricane that year(in the central Atlantic). Alice-1 had been the name of the first storm back in June and this became Alice-2, and the only hurricane in the Atlantic to cross into the next calendar year and become a hurricane for both years(1954-1955)....until 2005.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Atlantic_hurricane_season
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| First system formed | May 28, 1954 |
| Last system dissipated | January 6, 1955 (tied record latest with 2005) |
| Name | Hazel |
| • Maximum winds | 130 mph (215 km/h) (1-minute sustained) |
| • Lowest pressure | 938 mbar (hPa; 27.7 inHg) |
| Total depressions | 17 |
| Total storms | 16 |
| Hurricanes | 7 |
| Major hurricanes (Cat. 3+) | 3 |
| Total fatalities | 1069 |
| Total damage | $751.6 million (1954 U |
The most active hurricane season ever?
2005, by far............during global warming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Atlantic_hurricane_season
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| First system formed | June 8, 2005 |
| Last system dissipated | January 6, 2006 (record latest, tied with 1954) |
| Name | Wilma (Most intense hurricane in the Atlantic basin) |
| • Maximum winds | 185 mph (295 km/h) (1-minute sustained) |
| • Lowest pressure | 882 mbar (hPa; 26.05 inHg) |
| Total depressions | 31 (record high) |
| Total storms | 28 (record high) |
| Hurricanes | 15 (record high) |
| Major hurricanes (Cat. 3+) | 7 (record high, tied with 1961) |
| Total fatalities | 3,960 total |
| Total damage | $180.7 billion (2005 USD) (Second-costliest tropical cyclone season on record) |
| Atlantic hurricane seasons 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 | |
We should keep in mind that before the satellite era, there were tropical storms that nobody knew about and going back farther, likely some hurricanes that never got close to land that were not recorded.