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• Whether Lee will make landfall or blow out to sea remains a key question.
  — USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• The storm is expected to make landfall along the northeast U.S. and Canada over the weekend.
  — CNN, 14 Sep. 2023
• The group said there's a 71% chance at least one major hurricane will make landfall somewhere in the U.S.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2022
• The storm was centered 90 miles south of Cape Lookout, N.C., and was forecast to make landfall this morning.
  — Sarah Brumfield and Brian Witte The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2023
• Both brought heavy rain and flooding to the state and were the earliest tropical cyclones to make landfall on the islands.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 14 July 2023
• Next Monday’s total eclipse will first make landfall at around 11:07 a.m.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
• The system is expected to make landfall in Nicaragua on Sunday.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2022
• Florida, bracing for huge amounts to make landfall, has largely been spared the extreme amounts that washed up last year.
  — WIRED, 23 June 2023
• Yagi is the strongest typhoon to make landfall on the island since Rammasun in 2014.
  — Jerome Taylor, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
• The last storm to make landfall in Myanmar with a similar strength was Cyclone Giri in October 2010.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 16 May 2023
• People in the region brace for storms that sometimes make landfall with only a short lead time and leave billions of dollars in damage.
  — Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
• The most recent #hurricane to make landfall in the continental US in June is Bonnie in 1986.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 1 June 2022
• But Lee County is exactly where the eye of Hurricane Ian would make landfall.
  — Emily L. Mahoney, Sun Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2022
• It is expected to make landfall just south of Tulum on Friday morning around 5 a.m. ET.
  — Max Golembo, ABC News, 4 July 2024
• The last hurricane to make landfall in Maine was Hurricane Gerda, which hit Eastport in 1969.
  — David Sharp, ajc, 16 Sep. 2023
• Francine is forecast to make landfall as a Category 1 storm.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2024
• On average, one or two hurricanes make landfall in the U.S. per season.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2024
• However, Hurricane Idalia was the only hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. that year.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024
• The second wave is expected to make landfall Friday and linger through Saturday, Cohen said.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• Models indicate that hurricanes could make landfall in more northern areas of the state, such as Jacksonville, Kearns said.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2023
• The storm was expected to remain a hurricane and make landfall in the Yucatan Peninsula or Belize by around Friday.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2024
• The death toll as of Saturday had increased to more than 200 people and losses are in the billions, and another powerful storm is expected to make landfall soon.
  — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 9 Oct. 2024
• Hilary would become the first tropical storm to make landfall in California since 1939.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
• It was expected to continue on a path westward and could eventually make landfall in Nicaragua as a tropical storm this weekend.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 29 June 2022
• The Pacific storm is expected to make landfall today in Mexico.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 30 May 2022
• The storms are also expected to make landfall in more northern locations, instead of southern cities like Miami.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 1 June 2023
• By early Friday afternoon—two days before the storm, now named Ida, was projected to make landfall—the few remaining employees headed to their homes.
  — Boyce Upholt, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2022
• Hurricane Ian is expected to make landfall in Florida at about 2 p.m. Wednesday.
  — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Sep. 2022
• In most instances, the centers of winter storms either stay out at sea or make landfall in remote stretches of the Oregon and Washington coast, keeping the strongest winds away from populated areas.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2023
• Lightning levels are rapidly increasing in the complex of strong/severe thunderstorms that will make landfall along the California coast tonight.
  — Scott Dance, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024