As of Thursday, Irene was the strongest storm to threaten the Atlantic coast since 2005.
Thus you might say that Sandy is the strongest storm on record in north-east history.
Thought to be the strongest storm ever to make landfall, Haiyan's sustained 235kph winds brought devastation.
In October, the strongest storm ever recorded in the Midwest broke pressure records.
Weather officials in both China and Taiwan said Meranti was the strongest storm of its kind this year.
The second one, Katie, affected many southern areas on 28 March, causing disruption, and was the strongest storm of the cool season in some areas.
But six months after the strongest storm ever to make landfall turned the Philippine city of Tacloban upside down, Boctot may now have to find somewhere new.
"It may be the strongest storm to hit Vietnam in history," said Vietnam's director of the Central Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting Centre in Bui Minh Tang.
A typhoon believed to be the strongest storm to hit southern China in four decades has killed 17 people after claiming 94 lives in the Philippines, officials said.
The coastal city of 222,000 inhabitants bore the brunt of 195mph winds as the strongest storm ever recorded tore off roofs and destroyed evacuation centres.
Forecasters had predicted slow-moving Typhoon Bolaven could be the strongest storm to hit the area in over 50 years.
