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Hurricane Irma struck the British Virgin Islands as a Category 5 hurricane during the daylight hours of Wednesday, 6 September 2017. [2] It caused widespread destruction, and killed a total of four people. [3] The eye of the hurricane traveled over the three major islands in the group: Virgin Gorda, Tortola and Jost Van Dyke.
Hurricane Irma was an extremely powerful and devastating tropical cyclone that was the first Category 5 hurricane to strike the Leeward Islands on record, followed by Maria two weeks later. At the time, it was considered the most powerful hurricane on record in the open Atlantic region, outside of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, until it ...
Hurricane Irma is the most powerful tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Virgin Islands. The Virgin Islands (Spanish: Islas Vírgenes) are an archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. The islands fall into three different political jurisdictions: Spanish Virgin Islands, the easternmost islands of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, itself an ...
Devastation struck on September 6, 2017, when Hurricane Irma plowed through the British Virgin Islands. The most powerful Atlantic hurricane to ever strike land caused more damage than experts ...
Irma caused widespread devastation in the Caribbean, with a total of $27.16 billion (2017 USD) in damages and 27 deaths being attributed to the hurricane accumulative of all affected areas in the Caribbean. The hurricane was the costliest to ever impact the state of Florida, with at least $50 billion in damages and 92 fatalities left behind by ...
Trees are seen stripped of their leaves in an aerial image taken just over a week after Hurricane Irma made landfall in the US Virgin Islands in September 2017. The storm hit the Leeward Islands ...
The hurricane then struck Sint Maarten and the British Virgin Islands on September 6 and later crossed Little Inagua in the Bahamas on September 8. [1] Irma briefly weakened to a Category 4 hurricane, but re-intensified into a Category 5 hurricane before making landfall in the Sabana-Camagüey Archipelago of Cuba.
The British Virgin Islands (BVI), [3] officially the Virgin Islands, ... In 2017 Hurricane Irma struck the islands, causing four deaths and immense damage. [12]