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In Northern New Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic and Venezuela, the cabañuelas were practiced as follows: The 31 days of January were carefully observed in order to predict the weather for the rest of the year. The first through twelfth days of January represented their corresponding months on the calendar. The thirteenth through ...
In the Dominican Republic, a weather station in Barahona measured 24.26 in (616 mm) of rain, including 8.8 in (220 mm) in a single hour. About 823 homes suffered damage and 7,345 people were displaced. Five people died in Haiti, four from a weather-related traffic accident and one from a landslide. Total damage from Erika is estimated to be ...
Forecast track for Ana on August 16 and tropical storm watches at the 19th advisory. On August 15, a tropical storm watch was issued for much of the Leeward Islands. Two days later, the watch was expanded to include Puerto Rico and areas in the eastern Dominican Republic between Cabo Engaño and Cabo Beata. As Ana weakened and dissipated, the ...
In the Dominican Republic, tropical storm warnings were issued as Fred approached the island on August 10. [26] Upon landfall near Santo Domingo, 400,000 people lost power across the country. [30] Flooded rivers causing the shutdown the country's aqueduct system caused more than 500,000 people to lose access to water.
The Dominican Republic reported significant rainfall and coastal flooding due to Matthew. An automated weather station in Cabo Rojo measured 8.43 in (214 mm) of rain by the afternoon of October 3. [102] Four people died after a house collapsed on top of them. [76] Damage of the flooding were about RD$20 billion (US$434 million). [77]
The sixth named storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, Fay formed from a vigorous tropical wave on August 15 over the Dominican Republic. It passed over the island of Hispaniola, into the Gulf of Gonâve, across the island of Cuba, and made landfall on the Florida Keys late in the afternoon of August 18 before veering into the Gulf of Mexico
Christopher C. Burt, a weather historian writing for Weather Underground, believes that the 1913 Death Valley reading is "a myth", and is at least 2.2 or 2.8 °C (4 or 5 °F) too high. [13] Burt proposes that the highest reliably recorded temperature on Earth could still be at Death Valley, but is instead 54.0 °C (129.2 °F) recorded on 30 ...