1620-1639 Atlantic hurricane seasons

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The decades of the 1620s and 1630s featured the 1620-1639 Atlantic hurricane seasons. While data for every storm that occurred is unavailable, some parts of the coastline were populated enough to give data of hurricane occurrences. Each season was an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation in the Atlantic basin. Most tropical cyclone formation occurs between June 1 and November 30.

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[edit] Storms

Year Location Date Deaths Damage/Notes
1622 Bahamas, Florida Keys September 5 1090 Two Spanish ships lost
1623 Cuba, St. Kitts and Nevis September 9 150-250 The hurricane destroyed the first tobacco crop planted on St. Kitts by the English.[1]
1626 Puerto Rico September 15 38 N/A
1631 Gulf of Mexico October 21 300 N/A
1634 Cuba October 5 40 N/A
1635 New England August 24 46+ Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635
1638 Saint Kitts August 5 N/A Peter Minuit dies on way back to Stockholm, Sweden
1638 South of Puerto Rico October N/A Two British ships lost; two survivors

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  1. ^ Hubbard, Vincent K. (2002). Swords, Ships & Sugar: History of Nevis. Corvallis, Oregon
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