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The least populated of the Lesser Antilles, Bonaire lies 50 miles off the coast of Venezuela – in other words, comfortably outside of the hurricane belt.
Caribbean Winter. Caribbean hurricanes are one of the most frequent natural disasters that impact the Caribbean. A hurricane is a tropical cyclone with sustained one-minute winds of at least 74 miles per hour. [1] They are created when warm water hits the troposphere and high pressure pushes warm, dry air down in the center. [1]
Cuba is the largest and most populated island in the Caribbean yet consistently experiences the lowest death tolls during hurricane season. [5] According to United Nations, it's not because Cubans are lucky but because they're prepared. [6] According to Oxfam, from 1996 to 2002, only 16 people were killed by the six hurricanes that struck Cuba. [7]
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.
Hurricane Beryl is barreling towards Jamaica as a Category 5 storm after making landfall in the Windward Islands, bringing devastating winds and storm surges that have destroyed homes, wiped out ...
July 26–28, 1530 – Hurricane Santa Ana made landfall on Puerto Rico and was the first of three tropical cyclones to affect the island that year. [10] The island only had population of 3,100 at the time. [11] August 22, 1530 – Hurricane San Hipólito affected Puerto Rico as a weak hurricane or tropical storm bringing heavy rain. [11] [12]
A Category 4 Hurricane Beryl left at least 90% of the homes and businesses in Union Island damaged or destroyed, Ralph Gonsalves the prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines said on Monday ...
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