What is Storm history of Hurricane Wilma?
{{merge|Hurricane Wilma|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox Hurricane History | Name=[[Hurricane Wilma]] | Type=hurricane | Year=2005 | Basin=Atl | Image location=Wilma 2005 track.png | Image name=Hurricane Wilma track map | Formed=October 15, 2005 | Dissipated=October 25, 2005 | 1-min winds=160 | Pressure=882 | Pressurepost=Record low in Atlantic | Areas=[[Jamaica]], [[Haiti]], [[Cayman Islands]], [[Cuba]], [[Honduras]], [[Nicaragua]], [[Belize]], [[Yucatán|Yucatán Peninsula]], [[Florida]], [[Bahamas]], [[Atlantic Canada]] | Hurricane season=[[2005 Atlantic hurricane season]] }} The '''[[meteorology|meteorological]] history of [[Hurricane Wilma]]''', the strongest [[tropical cyclone]] known in the [[Western Hemisphere]], began in the second week of [[October]] [[2005]]. A big weather system formed across much of the [[Caribbean Sea]] and slowly organized to the southeast of [[Jamaica]]. By late on [[October 15]], the system was became strong for the [[National Hurricane Center]] to name it [[Tropical depression|Tropical Depression]] Twenty-Four. The depression slowly moved southwestward, and in conditions that were good for strengthening, it [[tropical cyclogenesis|strengthened]] into [[Tropical Storm]] ''[[Wilma]]'' on [[October 17]]. In the beginning, development was slow because of its large size, although [[convection#Atmospheric convection|thunderstorms]] slowly organized. From [[October 18]], and over the next day, Wilma underwent [[rapid deepening|explosive deepening]] over the open waters of the Caribbean; in a 30-hour period, the system's central [[atmospheric pressure]] dropped from 982&nbsp;[[bar (unit)|mbar]] (29.00&nbsp;[[inch of mercury|inHg]]) to the record-low value of 882&nbsp;mbar (26.05&nbsp;inHg), while the winds increased to 185&nbsp;mph (300&nbsp;km/h). At its strongest, the [[eye (cyclone)|pinhole eye]] of Wilma was about 3&nbsp;miles (5&nbsp;km) in diameter, the smallest known eye in an [[Atlantic hurricane]]. After the inner eye died off because of an [[eye (cyclone)|eyewall replacement cycle