Hurricane Iris was the ninth named tropical cyclone and fifth hurricane of an active 1995 Atlantic hurricane season. Iris was one of four storms to form nearly simultaneously in the Atlantic during the 1995 season. Forming on August 22, Iris slowly drifted across the Leeward Islands as a tropical storm before reaching hurricane strength. After peaking at Category 2 strength, Iris then accelerated and became extratropical on September 7. Iris' rem...
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Hurricane Iris was the ninth named tropical cyclone and fifth hurricane of an active 1995 Atlantic hurricane season. Iris was one of four storms to form nearly simultaneously in the Atlantic during the 1995 season. Forming on August 22, Iris slowly drifted across the Leeward Islands as a tropical storm before reaching hurricane strength. After peaking at Category 2 strength, Iris then accelerated and became extratropical on September 7. Iris' remnants reached western Europe as a 75 mph (121 km/h) extratropical storm.
During its life cycle, Iris made two Fujiwhara interactions. The first was with Hurricane Humberto, while the second was with Tropical Storm Karen which was later absorbed by Iris. Iris produced torrential rainfall across the Leeward Islands while at tropical storm strength. The rainfall caused isolated reports of landslides which killed five people.
Iris began as a tropical wave that moved off the coast of Africa on August 16. It moved westward with a disorganized center...
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