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The 1995 Atlantic hurricane season was an extremely busy one, with 19 named storms and five major hurricanes.

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English: The 1995 Atlantic hurricane season was an extremely busy one, with 19 named storms and five major hurricanes. One of those, Hurricane Opal, was the strongest and most intense hurricane of the season and NOAA's GOES-9 satellite tracked it from its formation. In this image, Opal is approaching the Florida Panhandle on October 4, 1995. as a major hurricane. It weakened from a Category-4 to a Category-3 storm before landfall later that day. The remnants of Opal would ultimately travel from the Deep South to Canada, dumping copious amounts of rain along the way and producing billions in damage. Since retired, Opal's legacy also includes being the first Atlantic tropical system to be given a name beginning with the letter 'O' since storms started being named in 1950.
Date Taken on 4 October 1995
Source Hurricane Opal, 1995
Author NOAASatellites
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Five Decades from Above

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by NOAASatellites at https://flickr.com/photos/125201706@N06/50700829197. It was reviewed on 20 February 2024 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark.

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This image is in the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, taken or made as part of an employee's official duties.

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