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November 5, 2010 – Hurricane Tomas becomes a hurricane just miles away from Haiti, flooding one of Haiti's largest refugee camps after the 2010 Haiti earthquake caused major damage and killed more than 200,000 people. Tropical-storm-force winds buffed much of the region too, causing damage.
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.
The tropical system was 85 miles northeast of Montego Bay, Jamaica, and about 140 miles west-southwest of Guantanamo, Cuba. It was moving to the northeast at around 17 mph.
The National Hurricane Center and AccuWeather forecasters are monitoring thunderstorms and showers near Hispaniola and Puerto Rico that could develop into a late-season tropical storm (National ...
The National Hurricane Center on Monday is monitoring a total of five tropical systems in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. One of those systems, Tropical Storm Franklin, will veer north ...
23 September: Earthquake in the western region of Haiti. 1904. Earthquake in the north of the country. Port-de-Paix and Cap-Haïtien were severely affected. [6] 1909. 12 November: cyclone in Ouest département. Around 150 victims were counted in plaine du Cul de Sac alone. 1915. 12 August: cyclone on the southern peninsula, which devastated ...
More than two dozen people are dead on the island of Hispaniola, shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, after torrential rainfall over three days created severe flooding, downed trees and ...
The strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in Canada was Hurricane Ginny, which made landfall in October 1963 as a high-end category 2 hurricane with winds of 175 km/h (109 mph). [271] Hurricane Luis produced a 30 m (98 ft) wave in Canadian waters, which is the largest wave recorded from a tropical cyclone on record.