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Even the outermost bands of Beryl were enough to cause power outages and road closures in the Dominican Republic, but the harder hit was on Jamaica’s southern coast, which got brushed by the ...
Beryl was about 100 miles west of Kingston, Jamaica and headed west-northwest at 20 mph. Hurricane-force winds extended up to 45 miles from the storm’s eye, putting Kingston within reach of the ...
As of Wednesday afternoon, Beryl remained a dangerous Category 4 hurricane as it encountered Jamaica with sustained winds of 140 mph. Beryl was moving west-northwestward at 18 mph.
August 29, 2021 - Hurricane Ida made landfall at Port Fourchon, Louisiana as a high-end Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph, the same day as the 16th anniversary of Katrina making landfall in the state. 33 people were killed and at least $18 billion in insured damage was inflicted across the state.
Hurricane Gilbert was the strongest landfalling storm in Jamaican history. The island nation of Jamaica lies in the Caribbean Sea, south of Cuba and west of Hispaniola.It frequently experiences the effects of Atlantic tropical cyclones that track across the Caribbean, with impacting storms often originating east of the Windward Islands or in the southern Caribbean between Nicaragua and Colombia.
Hurricane Beryl was roaring by Jamaica Wednesday, bringing fierce winds and heavy rain after the powerful Category 4 storm earlier killed at least seven people and caused significant damage in the ...
The storm continues to beat records, first becoming the earliest category 4 hurricane and now the earliest category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic, with sustained winds of 165mph (270km/h).
That storm was Hurricane Sandy, a Category 1 hurricane that took an unusual track northward through eastern Jamaica in 2012. Sandy caused $100 million USD in damage in Jamaica and killed three people.