Question: What year did the first recorded tropical storm make landfall in Florida?
Answer: The 1952 Groundhog Day storm.
The earliest tropical cyclone in any calendar year to make a Florida landfall on record was the 1952 Groundhog Day storm, which came ashore near Cape Sable in the Everglades on February 2–3, 1952. It remains the only Atlantic tropical (or subtropical) storm on record to form and strike land in February. One quirk for trivia buffs: the storm was never officially named—had the naming conventions of the era applied, it would have been Able.
