Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, as well as the second-costliest Atlantic hurricane in history, only surpassed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The eighteenth named storm and tenth hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Sandy devastated portions of the Caribbean, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States. At least 191 people were killed along the path of the storm in seven countries.
It is the biggest in the history of the Atlantic Ocean, or at least is tied for first with Hurricane Olga, but larger hurricanes, or typhoons as they are called there, have been recorded in the western Pacific Ocean.
By some estimates it is the largest recorded Atlantic hurricane with a gale diameter of nearly 950 miles.
There has never been a hurricane named Shannon in the Atlantic or Eastern Pacific basins. However, there was a Tropical Storm Shannon in the South Atlantic in 2018, which was a rare occurrence for that region.
Hurricane Sandy did have the wides gale diameter of any Atlantic hurricane, though a few Pacific typhoons have been bigger. Note that largest is not the same thing as strongest.
Hurricane Andrew was part of the 1992 Atlantic hurricane season.
Hurricane Katrina was an Atlantic hurricane. It was at its strongest over the Gulf of Mexico, which is part of the Atlantic basin.
Hurricane Bill was the first hurricane in the Atlantic Basin. Hurricane Andres developed first in the East Pacific
A hurricane over the Atlantic Ocean is simply called a hurricane.
A hurricane that forms in the Atlantic is simply called a hurricane.
No. Although Irene is a very large hurricane it is by no means the biggest.
On the atlantic ocean