Hurricane Ivan from the International Space Station
Hurricane season is underway in the Gulf of Mexico and with it brings death and destruction. The weather is affected this side of the Atlantic too. These are the twelve most powerful and deadliest hurricanes the Atlantic has ever seen.
Hurricane Ivan was the strongest of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm formed in early September and became the ninth named storm, the sixth hurricane, and the fourth major hurricane of the year. Ivan caused catastrophic damage to Grenada, heavy damage to Jamaica, Grand Cayman, and the western tip of Cuba before hitting the US where it caused an estimated $13 billion worth of damage. Image courtesy of NASA.
