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Tropical Storm Debby struck Saint Lucia, and wind gusts on the island reached 46 mph (74 km/h) in Vigie. [6] Damage throughout Debby's path was heaviest on this island, [12] and the storm affected most of Saint Lucia. Debby produced heavy rainfall and thunderstorms over a six-hour period, which caused flooding along rivers and in low-lying ...
Map of Saint Lucia Enlargeable, detailed map of Saint Lucia. Saint Lucia is one of many small land masses composing the insular group known as the Windward Islands. [1] Unlike large limestone areas such as Florida, Cuba, and the Yucatan Peninsula, or the Bahamas, which is a small island group composed of coral and sand, Saint Lucia is a typical Windward Island formation of volcanic rock that ...
At this stage, only the Tugela River mouth was known as St. Lucia. Later, in 1575, the Tugela River was named Tugela. On 13 December 1575, the day of the feast of Saint Lucy, Manuel Peresterello renamed the mouth area to Santa Lucia. In 1822, St Lucia was proclaimed by the British as a township. In 1895, St Lucia Game Reserve, 30 km north of ...
The Mabouya Valley in eastern St. Lucia in Dennery District contains two rivers, the Grande Rivière du Mabouya and the Dernière Rivière.The forested hillsides have, in places, been cleared for farming and the valley receives annual rainfall of 3000 mm (118 inches) at its head in Barre de l'Isle and 2000 mm (79 inches) at La Caye.
Strong winds in excess of 60 mph (97 km/h) downed many trees and power lines on St. Lucia, leaving roughly 70 percent of the island without power. Landslides and flooding, the result of more than 10 in (250 mm) of rain accompanying the storm, damaged many homes and roads. [8]
As Allen approached the Caribbean Sea, gale warnings and a hurricane watch were issued for the islands of Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Dominica, Grenada, Martinique, and Guadeloupe during the daylight hours of August 3. Gale warnings were in effect for Antigua from 11 am on August 3 until 11 am on August 4. Hurricane warnings were raised ...
Heavy rainfall in Port St. Lucie has caused undue stress to the city's drainage system, causing flooding at major intersections like Crosstown Parkway and Cameo Boulevard.
Tropical Storm Kirk was the second lowest-latitude tropical storm on record in the Atlantic basin. The eleventh named storm of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, Kirk originated from a tropical wave that left Africa on September 20 and organized into a tropical depression two days later.