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October 7, 2016 - Hurricane Matthew passed through the Bahamas, making a direct landfall on Grand Bahama. Strong winds took down trees and an estimated 95% percent of houses were severely damaged in Eight Mile Rock and Holmes Rock. On the backside of the hurricane, heavy rainfall flooded the Bahamas, damaging roads.
The Major Hurricanes to Affect the Bahamas. AuthorHouse. ISBN 978-1425966089. — (5 June 2012) [2012]. The Great Bahamian Hurricanes of 1899 and 1932. Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse. ISBN 978-1-4759-2553-1 – via Google Books. — (2019). The Greatest and Deadliest Hurricanes to Impact the Bahamas. Cheyenne, Wyoming: UrLink. ISBN 978-1-64753 ...
1899 San Ciriaco hurricane; 1903 Florida hurricane; 1926 Nassau hurricane; 1928 Okeechobee hurricane; 1929 Bahamas hurricane; 1932 Bahamas hurricane; 1933 Cuba–Bahamas hurricane; 1933 Cuba–Brownsville hurricane; 1933 Treasure Coast hurricane; 1945 Homestead hurricane; 1947 Fort Lauderdale hurricane; 1948 Miami hurricane; 1949 Florida hurricane
Hurricane Dorian was an extremely powerful and catastrophic tropical cyclone, which became the most intense on record to strike The Bahamas. It is tied with the 1935 Labor Day hurricane for the strongest landfall in the Atlantic basin in terms of maximum sustained winds. It is regarded as the worst natural disaster in The Bahamas' recorded ...
It was known as the Great Abaco hurricane [nb 1] or the 1932 Bahamas hurricane, after the site of its worst effects, which it hit at peak intensity. Though large and powerful, it impacted few areas other than islands.
The 1899 San Ciríaco hurricane, also known as the 1899 Puerto Rico Hurricane or The Great Bahamas Hurricane of 1899, was the longest-lived Atlantic hurricane on record, and the third-longest-lived tropical cyclone globally on record (in terms of tropical duration) after 1994's Hurricane John in the Pacific Ocean and 2023's Cyclone Freddy in the southern Indian Ocean.
The 1929 Bahamas hurricane (also known as the Great Andros Island Hurricane) was a high-end Category 4 tropical cyclone whose intensity and slow forward speed led to catastrophic damage in the Bahamas in September 1929, particularly on Andros and New Providence islands. Its erratic path and a lack of nearby weather observations made the ...
Hurricane Dorian at peak intensity while making landfall in the Abaco Islands on September 1. By the morning of August 30, Dorian completed the eyewall replacement cycle and resumed its intensification trend. The upper-level low steering the hurricane retreated to the south, while the Atlantic subtropical ridge built westward.