Heavy rainfall caused widespread flooding across Cuba resulting in a nationwide power outage. Rapidly intensifying into a high-end Category 3 hurricane, Ian made landfall in western Cuba. It became a tropical depression on the morning of September 23 and strengthened into Tropical Storm Ian early the next day while it was southeast of Jamaica. The wave moved into the Caribbean Sea on September 21 bringing heavy rain and gusty winds to Trinidad and Tobago, the ABC islands, and the northern coast of South America. Ian originated from a tropical wave that moved off the coast of Western Africa and across the central tropical Atlantic towards the Windward Islands. Ian was the strongest hurricane to hit Florida since Michael in 2018, the first Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic since Lorenzo in 2019, and the fifth since 2016 to reach that strength before making landfall in the U.S. It was the ninth named storm, fourth hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season. Ian caused widespread damage across western Cuba and catastrophic damage in Florida it also caused damage in the Carolinas. Hurricane Ian was a powerful Category 5 Atlantic hurricane which was the third-costliest weather disaster on record, and the deadliest hurricane to strike the state of Florida since the 1935 Labor Day hurricane. Part of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Colombia, ABC islands, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Southeast United States (especially Florida and The Carolinas) ( Third-costliest tropical cyclone on record costliest in Florida history) Hurricane Ian at peak intensity while approaching southwest Florida on September 28.
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