The name Maria has been used for eight

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s worldwide: three in the

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and five in the Western

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. In the Atlantic: * Hurricane Maria (2005) – a Category 3 hurricane that did not affect land as a tropical cyclone. * Hurricane Maria (2011) – a Category 1 hurricane that formed in the eastern Atlantic and made landfall in

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, causing minor damage. *

Hurricane Maria Hurricane Maria was an extremely powerful and devastating tropical cyclone that affected the northeastern Caribbean in September 2017, particularly in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, which accounted for 2,975 of the 3,059 deaths. It is the ...

(2017) – an extremely powerful hurricane that made landfall in

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at Category 5 intensity; later brushed through

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and the

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before making landfall in

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as a high-end Category 4 hurricane, where a humanitarian crisis occurred. The name ''Maria'' was

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after the 2017 season because of the extensive damage and loss of life caused by the storm and was replaced with ''

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'' for the 2023 season. In the Western Pacific: * Tropical Storm Maria (2000) (T0013, 21W) – a severe tropical storm that made landfall in southern China. * Typhoon Maria (2006) (T0607, 09W) – tracked just south and east of Japan;

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classified it as a tropical storm. * Tropical Storm Maria (2012) (T1222, 23W) – a severe tropical storm that remained out at sea. *

Typhoon Maria (2018) Typhoon Maria, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Gardo, was a powerful tropical cyclone that affected Guam, the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, and East China in early-July 2018. Developing into the eighth named tropical storm of the 2018 Pacific typ ...

(T1808, 10W, Gardo) – a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon which weakened before making landfall in eastern China. * Tropical Storm Maria (2024) (T2405, 06W) – a severe tropical storm that made landfall in the

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in Japan.

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