Q 01/05

Typhoon Tip's world-record low sea-level pressure, set in October 1979, was what?

A) 870 hPa

B) 882 hPa

C) 892 hPa

D) 902 hPa

Answer · why

A) 870 hPa

Tip was also the largest tropical cyclone ever recorded and was known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Warling.

Q 02/05

Hurricane Wilma's 2005 rapid intensification set an Atlantic record with a 24-hour pressure drop of how much?

A) 42 mbar

B) 60 mbar

C) 78 mbar

D) 97 mbar

Answer · why

D) 97 mbar

Wilma became the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record by pressure and its eye shrank to 2.3 miles across.

Q 03/05

Which storm is the Western Hemisphere's second-most intense by pressure, after Wilma?

A) Hurricane Gilbert

B) Hurricane Allen

C) Hurricane Camille

D) Hurricane Patricia

Answer · why

D) Hurricane Patricia

Wilma is the most intense in the Atlantic basin, but Patricia in the eastern Pacific beat it in 2015 and holds the wind record at 215 mph.

Q 04/05

Which two Atlantic hurricanes are the only ones ever to reach sustained winds of 190 mph?

A) Camille (1969) and Andrew (1992)

B) Gilbert (1988) and Wilma (2005)

C) Allen (1980) and Melissa (2025)

D) Dorian (2019) and Irma (2017)

Answer · why

C) Allen (1980) and Melissa (2025)

Allen's 190 mph was the Western Hemisphere record until Patricia's 215 mph in 2015.

Q 05/05

The 1935 Labor Day hurricane made landfall near Long Key, Florida, with what central pressure?

A) 902 millibars

B) 915 millibars

C) 892 millibars

D) 926 millibars

Answer · why

C) 892 millibars

Its 185 mph landfall winds are tied with Dorian and Melissa as the strongest Atlantic landfall on record.