Three Hurricanes, One Weekend

9–11 October 2026

Over one weekend, three hurricanes hit North America from both sides. On Friday night Isaias, the Atlantic's first hurricane of the year and the latest first Atlantic hurricane since 1905, came ashore near Destin at 105 mph. On Saturday Simon reached 155 mph off Jalisco, close enough to batter the coast without making landfall. The same night Rachel, 14 days after it formed, drove its remnants into Baja California and on into the American Southwest. At least 11 people died. Simon is still offshore.

What happened

Maximum sustained windmph, every six hours

Peaks: Rachel 120 mph on 2 Oct, Isaias 120 mph on 9 Oct, Simon 155 mph on 11 Oct (UTC). Dotted lines: hurricane 74 mph and major hurricane 111 mph; a tropical storm is 39 mph or more.

“The hurricane is forecast to move very slowly over the next couple of days, followed by an eventual turn to the north or north-northwest by late this week.”National Hurricane Center on Simon, 13 October

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Sources. NHC best tracks (ATCF b-decks, through 2026-10-13 18:00 UTC), best-track wind swaths and Simon advisory 26 forecast; impacts from Wikipedia and CBS News as listed in the post (retrieved 13 October). Track width is the 6-hourly maximum sustained wind. Swaths are NHC's analysed wind radii, generalized. State borders: Natural Earth. Figures provisional. Web Mercator; the printed map is Albers equal-area conic, standard parallels 14°N and 33°N.