Hurricane Irma broke a bunch of meteorological records here are some of the biggest
https://webcms.colostate.edu/tropical/media/sites/111/2017/09/Hurricane-Irma-Records.pdf
It'll take months to fully assess the damage to the hardest-hit places, and the recovery and rebuilding process will take years.
But many of the weather records set by the storm are already clear.
Meteorologist Phil Klotzbach tracked Irma with a team at Colorado State University's Tropical Meteorology Project. He published the final summary of the milestones the storm hit after Irma was finally downgraded to a tropical depression Monday night.
You can check out the full list on the CSU site, but here are few of the biggest records the giant storm broke:
Irma sustained 185-mph winds for 37 hours, the longest any cyclone on the globe has maintained that intensity.
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Hurricane Irma Meteorological Records/Notable Facts Recap Intensity/Day Measures
- 185 mph lifetime max winds tied with Florida Keys (1935), Gilbert (1988) and Wilma (2005) for second strongest max winds of all time in Atlantic hurricane. Allen had max winds of 190 mph in 1980
- 185 mph lifetime max winds the strongest storm to exist in the Atlantic Ocean outside of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico on record
- 185 mph max winds for 37 hours the longest any cyclone around the globe has maintained that intensity on record. The previous record was Haiyan in the NW Pacific at 24 hours
- 914 mb lifetime minimum central pressure lowest in the Atlantic since Dean (2007) and 10th lowest in satellite era (since 1966)
- 914 mb lifetime minimum central pressure lowest pressure by an Atlantic hurricane outside of the western Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico on record
- First Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic since Matthew (2016) and first Category 5 hurricane in the tropical Atlantic (7.5-20°N, 60-20°W) since Hugo (1989)
- 3.25 day lifetime as a Category 5 hurricane tied with Cuba (1932) for longest lifetime as Category 5 in Atlantic
- 3 consecutive days as a Category 5 hurricane the longest for an Atlantic hurricane in the satellite era (since 1966)
- 12.75 named storm days the most since Nicole (2016) and tied for 23rd most in satellite era for the Atlantic
- 11.25 hurricane days the most since Ivan (2004) and tied for 9th most in satellite era (since 1966) for the Atlantic satellite-era record is Ginger (1971) with a whopping 19.5 hurricane days
- 8.50 major hurricane days the 2nd most in satellite era (since 1966) for the Atlantic trailing Ivan (2004).