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- Atlantic Hurricane Season's 3 Longest-Lived Storms And The World's Record All Lasted For Weeks</p>
<p>Chris Dolce July 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM</p>
<p>Hurricanes and tropical storms can sometimes be a marathon to track, while others are so short-lived you might blink and miss that it ever existed.</p>
<p>For example, the first Atlantic storm of 2025, Andrea, preliminarily lasted just 12 hours. That's in stark contrast to some storms in history which have overstayed their welcome for three or more weeks.</p>
<p>Here's a look at the top three longest-lasting Atlantic storms, based on a list provided by Dr. Phil Klotzbach, a tropical scientist at Colorado State University. This only includes cumulative time spent as either a hurricane or tropical storm and not as tropical depression since the latter data is less reliable back through history, Klotzbach said.</p>
<p>3. 2012 Hurricane Nadine</p>
<p>Big Picture: Nearly 3 weeks, or 20.75 days, is how long Nadine loitered in the eastern Atlantic as a named storm in 2012. Its path resembled something a toddler might sketch on a sheet of paper, first tracking northwest after it formed, then turning east before doing all sorts of looping patterns near the Azores, a group of islands west of Portugal.</p>
<p>Deeper Dive: The National Hurricane Center issued 88 forecast advisories on the storm, and in the final one humorously cited in a headline the Grateful Dead's, "What a long, strange trip it's been". Nadine hit hurricane strength two separate times at a record 13 days apart, the NHC report said. Fortunately, Nadine's bobbing and weaving path caused few impacts other than producing 50-mph wind gusts in a few spots across the Azores.</p>
<p>2. 1971 Hurricane Ginger</p>
<p>Big Picture: In 1971, Ginger stuck around for 21.25 days at tropical storm or hurricane intensity. If you include its time spent as a tropical depression that figure increases to 27.25 days. After forming well northeast of the Bahamas, it tracked toward the central Atlantic nearly 1,000 miles east of Bermuda, which is usually a sign that a storm will be no threat to the U.S. Ginger had other plans and doubled back, heading in a westward direction that completed a looping path in the central Atlantic. From there, it made landfall in North Carolina as Category 1.</p>
<p>Deeper Dive: 20 of Ginger's days were spent at hurricane intensity, which is the most of any Atlantic storm on record. Interestingly, Ginger's origin was from a non-tropical low-pressure system, illustrating one of five ways tropical cyclones can form. It also had an unusually large eye up to 80-miles-wide during part of its journey. While Ginger did brush Bermuda, its biggest impacts were felt in eastern North Carolina and southeast Virginia. A wind gust up to 92 mph was clocked at Atlantic Beach as it made landfall. Power outages, destroyed mobile homes, storm surge, and rainfall flooding were among the impacts seen in North Carolina.</p>
<p>1. 1899 "San Ciriaco Hurricane"</p>
<p>Big Picture: A whopping 28 days, or 4 weeks, is how long the 1899 "San Ciriaco Hurricane" was a tropical storm or hurricane from early August to early September 1899. It tracked from southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands to Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, eastern North Carolina and the Azores in an elongated, C-shaped loop.</p>
<p>Deeper Dive: For context, the average number of days a storm lasts in the Atlantic Basin is five, according to Klotzbach, so this system more than quintupled that statistic. It is considered one of the deadliest Atlantic storms on record, with a death toll of more than 3,400. Most of those were in Puerto Rico where it made landfall as a Category 4. It ravaged the Bahamas as Category 3 and also made landfall at that intensity in Hatteras, North Carolina, before turning out to sea.</p>
<p>World Record Was Recently Set</p>
<p>Big Picture: In early 2023, Tropical Cyclone Freddy lasted for 36 days, making it the longest-lived storm on record anywhere in the world. Freddy tracked nearly 8,000 miles across the Indian Ocean from north of Australia to Africa, making landfalls in Madagascar and Mozambique.</p>
<p>Deeper Dive: Freddy easily toppled the previous world record of 30 days set by Hurricane/Typhoon John in central and eastern Pacific in 1994. It hit Category 5 strength twice while located over the open Indian Ocean. Freddy produced severe impacts across parts of Madagascar, Mozambique and Malawi.</p>
<p>Why It's So Hard For Storm's To Stick Around For Weeks? -</p>
<p>First, you need a tropical cyclone to move over an expansive swath of the ocean. So ideally they need to start their journey as far east as possible in the Atlantic, allowing for the most amount of warm ocean water to draw energy from along its future path.</p>
<p>Once the storm gains northward latitude, it needs to be missed by one or more southward dips in the jet stream. By avoiding those it keeps the storm from facing increasingly hostile upper-level winds that might lead to its tropical demise. Typically, a storm may miss one of those southward dips in the jet stream. For a storm to miss two or more dips in the jet stream, however, is more unusual.</p>
<p>Preferably, it stalls at least once, but not for so long that cooled ocean water from rain and upwelling causes the storm to weaken significantly. This can happen just after a jet disturbance misses picking up the storm, as mentioned above.</p>
<p>Chris Dolce has been a senior digital meteorologist with weather.com for 15 years after beginning his career with The Weather Channel in the early 2000s.</p>
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