The name Martin has been used for four

tropical cyclone A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Depend ...

s worldwide: For one storm in the Atlantic Ocean, two in the South Pacific Ocean and for one extratropical

European windstorm European windstorms are powerful extratropical cyclones which form as cyclonic windstorms associated with areas of low atmospheric pressure. They can occur throughout the year, but are most frequent between October and March, with peak intensit ...

. In the Atlantic: *

Hurricane Martin (2022) The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season was the first season since 1997 in which no tropical cyclones formed in August, and the first season on record to do so during a La Niña year. It was a fairly average hurricane season with an average number ...

– large but short-lived Category 1 hurricane that churned in the open North Atlantic. In the South Pacific: *

Cyclone Martin (1986) The name Martin has been used for four tropical cyclones worldwide: For one storm in the Atlantic Ocean, two in the South Pacific Ocean and for one extratropical European windstorm. In the Atlantic: * Hurricane Martin (2022) – large but short-liv ...

– weak tropical cyclone had only minor effects on land. *

Cyclone Martin (1997) Severe Tropical Cyclone Martin was the deadliest tropical cyclone of the 1997–98 South Pacific cyclone season. The system was first noted as a weak tropical disturbance on October 27, to the north of the Northern Cook Islands. Over the next fe ...

– damaging and deadly Category 3 tropical cyclone that affected the Cook Islands and French Polynesia. The

WMO The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for promoting international cooperation on atmospheric science, climatology, hydrology and geophysics. The WMO originated from the Internat ...

retired the name ''Martin'' from use in the South Pacific basin following the 1997–98 cyclone season. In Europe: *

Cyclone Martin (1999) Cyclone Martin was an extremely violent European windstorm which crossed southern Europe on 27–28 December 1999, causing severe damage across France, Spain, Switzerland and Italy one day after Cyclone Lothar had affected similar area ...

– caused devastating damage in southern France in late December 1999, killing 30 people.

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