Hurricane Adrian was an early season hurricane which took an unusual southwest to northeast track, bringing it closer to El Salvador than any other hurricane since reliable records began in 1949. It was the first storm of the 2005 Pacific hurricane season, forming two days after the season officially began. It made landfall in Honduras along the coast of the Gulf of Fonseca as a tropical depression late on May 19, then weakened rapidly, dissipati...
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