1885 Atlantic hurricane season

1885 Atlantic hurricane season
1885 Atlantic hurricane season
	Season summary map
Seasonal boundaries
First system formed	August 7, 1885
Last system dissipated	October 13, 1885
Strongest storm
Name	Two
• Maximum winds	105 mph (165 km/h); (1-minute sustained)
• Lowest pressure	953 mbar (hPa; 28.14 inHg)
Seasonal statistics
Total storms	8
Hurricanes	6
Major hurricanes; (Cat. 3+)	0
Total fatalities	25
Total damage	$1.806 million (1885 USD)
	Atlantic hurricane seasons; 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887

The 1885 Atlantic hurricane season ran through the summer and the first half of fall in 1885. This is the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin. In 1885 there were two tropical storms and six hurricanes in the Atlantic basin. However, in the absence of modern satellite monitoring and remote-sensing technologies, only storms that affected populated land areas or encountered ships at sea were recorded, so the actual total could be higher. An undercount bias of zero to six tropical cyclones per year between 1851 and 1885 and zero to four per year between 1886 and 1910 has been estimated.^[1]

^ Landsea, C. W. (2004). "The Atlantic hurricane database re-analysis project: Documentation for the 1851–1910 alterations and additions to the HURDAT database". In Murname, R. J.; Liu, K.-B. (eds.). Hurricanes and Typhoons: Past, Present and Future. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 177–221. ISBN 0-231-12388-4.

[1] Landsea, C. W. (2004). "The Atlantic hurricane database re-analysis project: Documentation for the 1851–1910 alterations and additions to the HURDAT database". In Murname, R. J.; Liu, K.-B. (eds.). Hurricanes and Typhoons: Past, Present and Future. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 177–221. ISBN 0-231-12388-4.

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