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September 3, 1930 - The 1930 Dominican Republic hurricane makes landfall in the Dominican Republic as a Category 4 hurricane with 155 miles per hour (249 km/h) winds, making it estimated among some of the strongest hurricanes in the country, causing in between $15 million and $50 million in damage (1930 USD, $235 million and $780 million in ...
Hurricane Franklin was a long-lived, erratic, and powerful tropical cyclone that brought tropical-storm force winds to parts of the Greater Antilles and Bermuda.The sixth named storm, [1] second hurricane and first major hurricane of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, Franklin impacted Hispaniola as a tropical storm before strengthening into a high-end Category 4 hurricane several days later.
While hurricanes might not have impacted the overall domination of agricultural production in the Caribbean, individual storms in the 1840s affected infrastructure and the fields for subsistence farmers and larger growers. [12] On October 4, 1844, Hurricane San Francisco de Asis struck the island of Cuba.
The storm on Tuesday morning was located about 260 miles (420 kilometers) south of Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. It had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (85 kph) and was ...
Authorities in the Dominican Republic fanned out across the Caribbean country on Thursday to evaluate the damage Tropical Storm Franklin inflicted on crops and homes after causing heavy flooding ...
At 8 p.m. (2100 GMT), the storm had passed north of Puerto Plata on the Dominican Republic's north coast, moving north-northeast into the Atlantic at 13 mph (20 kph), according to the U.S ...
The hurricane peaked later that morning with sustained winds of 165 mph (270 km/h) and a central barometric pressure of 934 mb (27.58 inHg). [16] Increasing wind shear due to a tropical upper tropospheric trough eventually caused Beryl to slowly weaken to a Category 4 storm as it passed south of the Dominican Republic. [17] [18]
A vendor works amid the debris of his small business of umbrella rentals and food after they were felled by Hurricane Fiona on the beach in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, Monday, Sept. 19, 2022.