Hurricane Wilma began as a tropical depression near Jamaica on October 15th, 2005. As the storm developed and began tracking westward, it was upgraded to hurricane status on October 18th. That same day it began the most explosive deepening of any Atlantic storm on record. Aircraft measured the record breaking central pressure to be 882 mb which followed from a drop of 88 mb over 12 hours, shattering all past records for Atlantic born hurricanes. Luckily, the titan weakened to a category 4 hurricane before impacting the Yucatan Peninsula at 2145 UTC, October 21st, further weakening to a category 2. It finally left the peninsula on the 22nd of October only to meet a mid-tropospheric trough which helped to strengthen Wilma as it was driven towards Florida. Making landfall near Cape Romano around 1030 UTC, October 24th, it crossed the Florida Peninsula in under 4.5 hours. Briefly re-intensifying in the Atlantic, Wilma ultimately dissipated on October 25th after heading northeastward from Florida. Hurricane Wilma caused 23 deaths overall and upwards of $20.6 billion worth of damage in the U.S. alone.