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A wildfire in Bitterroot National Forest in Montana on August 6 . The following is a list of weather events that occurred on Earth in the year 2000.There were several natural disasters around the world from various types of weather, including floods, droughts, heat waves, tornadoes, and tropical cyclones.
October 2000 events in South America (1 C, 3 P) This page was last edited on 30 January 2025, at 23:07 (UTC). Text ... This page was last edited on 30 January 2025, ...
Haiti's unique position and geography in the Caribbean makes it especially vulnerable to many kinds of natural disasters. The most notable of these disasters are landfalls from tropical cyclones, major earthquakes (due to its position over an active fault line), and general flooding events (often accompanied with landslides that kill hundreds).
October 22, 1935 - A hurricane struck southeastern Cuba and later drifted back southwestward over the Caribbean. The storm killed four people. [14] October 18, 1944 - A hurricane struck the western tip of Cuba, producing a wind gust of 163 mph (262 km/h) in Havana. [15] Seven people died across Cuba from the storm. [16]
October 25, 2012 – Hurricane Sandy passes offshore while smashing Cuba, dropping more than four days of rainfall on Hispaniola, causing large mudslides and major flooding. Tents and buildings all over Haiti in refugee camps were flooded, almost like what Hurricane Isaac had done earlier that year. Crops were also severely damage or destroyed ...
The island's name derives from the turtle-like shape of the island. Île à Vache (Cow Island) is a small and lush island located off southwestern of Haiti with a total area is 52 km 2. Les Cayemites, a pair of islands located in the Gulf of Gonâve off the coast of southwest Hispaniola. It has a combined area of 45 km 2.
The 7.2-magnitude earthquake has left Haiti "on its knees," Prime Minister Ariel Henry said this week as the Civil Protection Agency raised the death toll above 2,000. As the island nation works ...
Cyclone Oratia, (Tora in Norway) [4] was an unusually deep European windstorm which affected Western Europe from 28 to 30 October 2000. The storm was the fiercest to hit Britain in October since the Great Storm of 1987, with wind gusts reaching 109 mph (175 km/h), [5] and gusting at up to 70 mph (110 km/h) over much of the south of England.