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Hurricane Maria was an extremely powerful and devastating tropical cyclone that affected the ... Two weeks after Hurricane Irma hit St. Thomas and St. John as a ...
Radar image of Hurricane Maria at 0950 UTC September 20, just before landfall in Puerto Rico. This was the last image from the radar before it was destroyed. Maria first developed into a tropical depression on September 16 while it was located about 665 miles (1,070 km) east of Barbados. [1]
Maria made landfall near Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, at 10:15 UTC, with winds of 155 mph (250 km/h) and a central pressure of 920 mbar (hPa; 27.17 inHg), [5] making it the strongest to hit the island since the 1928 San Felipe Segundo hurricane, which had struck Puerto Rico as a Category 5 hurricane. [25] Additionally, when Maria made landfall in ...
Nearly a year ago, Hurricane Maria hit the island of Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm, knocking out all power and devastating the island’s 3.3 million inhabitants. Based on data from a recent ...
Hurricane Maria. Year: 2017. Death Toll: 2,982. ... Hurricane Michael hit the Florida Panhandle as a Category 5, making it one of the strongest hurricanes to make landfall in the U.S. It was an ...
Hurricane Maria: 5: Eye passed over the south of Saint Croix. Caused catastrophic damage. Struck two weeks after Hurricane Irma. In the intervening period another major hurricane (Hurricane Jose) narrowly missed the Territory. [2] 2017: Hurricane Irma: 5: Strongest Atlantic forming hurricane ever recorded.
KISSIMMEE, Fla. - Gabriel Mejias Ocasio remembered Sunday the wrath of Hurricane Maria, which struck in Puerto Rico three years ago Sunday. Thousands dead. Homes obliterated, businesses destroyed.
The strongest hurricane to hit the territory during the time period was Hurricane Maria, which was a Category 4, on the Saffir–Simpson scale, the second-highest category on the scale. Maria was the strongest hurricane to strike the territory since 1928 Okeechobee hurricane.