The first hurricane, named Able, struck South Carolina with winds of 100 mph (160 km/h), causing heavy damage near the coast and widespread power outages.

As a developing tropical cyclone, Hurricane Charlie caused damaging flooding and landslides in southwest Puerto Rico.

On February 2, a non-frontal low formed in the western Caribbean Sea two months after the end of the hurricane season.

[8] Over six months after the previous storm dissipated, a tropical depression developed just off the west coast of Africa on August 18.

It moved generally west- to west-northwestward for much of its duration, intensifying into a tropical storm on August 24 east of the Lesser Antilles.

On August 30, Able turned to the north-northwest due to an approaching cold front, and the next day made landfall near Beaufort, South Carolina as a Category 2 hurricane with peak winds of 100 mph (160 km/h).

[1] As Able turned north and northeastward over land, the winds quickly weakened to tropical storm force, although it retained gale-force winds through North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland; this was due to remaining over the flat terrain east of the Appalachian Mountains, as well as retaining a plume of tropical moisture from its south.

There was very dry air on the west side of the system, unusual for August, and the radius of maximum winds was around 115 mi (185 km), suggesting that the structure could have been akin to a subtropical cyclone.

[1] Given the name Baker, the hurricane passed north of the Lesser Antilles, reaching peak winds of 110 mph (175 km/h) late on September 3.

[1] With a large anticyclone located over the Ohio Valley, Baker turned to the northeast on September 5,[13] passing about halfway between Bermuda and North Carolina.

The hurricane slowly weakened as it moved through the north Atlantic Ocean, just missing Newfoundland while maintaining winds of 80 mph (130 km/h).

[4] Wind gusts on Avalon Peninsula reached 70 mph (110 km/h), and heavy fishing damage was reported in Lower Island Cove.

[14] After affecting the island, Baker transitioned into an extratropical storm, which lasted another day before dissipating south of Greenland.

Based on a uniform thermal structure, as well as ship reports in the region of gale-force winds near the center, it is estimated that the system became a tropical storm early on September 8.

On September 9, the storm turned to the southeast, reaching estimated peak winds of 50 mph (80 km/h), based on ship observations.

By the next day, the system was interacting with an approaching cold front, indicating that the depression had transitioned into an extratropical cyclone.

[15] In Puerto Rico, the rains caused landslides that affected seven towns, notably Ponce, the island's second-largest city.

[1] After affecting Puerto Rico, the low continued to organize, and subsequently struck the Dominican Republic on September 23.

[1] On September 25, Charlie attained hurricane status,[4] and due to its continued northwest motion, the Weather Bureau advised small craft to remain at port in the southeastern United States coast.

On September 26, the Cape Verdean island of Santiago recorded winds of 30 mph (48 km/h) as the system was passing to the southwest.

[4][1] The strongest tropical cyclone of the season formed on October 20 in the Caribbean Sea off the northwest coast of Colombia,[4] believed to have been from the Intertropical Convergence Zone.

Fox subsequently turned to the north, intensifying to a major hurricane as it passed west of the Cayman Islands.

Late on October 24, the cyclone struck the small island of Cayo Guano del Estes in the Archipelago de los Canarreos, south of Cienfuegos, Cuba.

[4][1] Hurricane Fox crossed Cuba in a rural area dominated by sugar plantations, with heavy damage reported to 36 mills.

Turning to the west-northwest along a dissipating cold front, the storm reached peak winds of 60 mph (97 km/h) on November 27.