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The Rio Grande Valley's citrus industry, based on cultivation of the famous "Ruby Red" grapefruit, was particularly hard hit. Padre Island, just off the Texas gulf coast, suffered significant devastation, and the island's sensitive ecosystem was altered by the storm. Within a 36-hour period it dropped almost 30 inches of rain in Beeville, Texas.
Typhoon Haiyan in Samar, Philippines [37] Highest number of tropical storms in a season: 39 official storms during the 1964 Pacific typhoon season: May 12, 1964 – December 17, 1964: Northwest Pacific Ocean [38] Warmest eye: 34.0 °C (93.2 °F) at 700 hPa height: August 19, 1979: Typhoon Judy in the northwest Pacific Ocean [39]
In addition, 15 rivers exceed the previously known peak flow. [74] The floods kill 31 people. [77] and cause $1.5 billion in damages. [78] August 23, 1999 – Hurricane Bret makes landfall as a Category 3 hurricane on Padre Island, becoming the first major hurricane to hit Texas since Hurricane Alicia in 1983. [79]
The average typhoon could last around five hours longer, with average wind speed at landfall increased by 6 percent, and it would travel 50 percent further inland, according to the projections of ...
Throughout Texas, Carla destroyed 1,915 homes, 568 farm buildings, and 415 other buildings. Additionally, 50,723 homes, 5,620 farm buildings, and 10,487 other buildings suffered damage. There were 460 injuries according to the American Red Cross, though the Monthly Weather Review listed a slightly higher number, 465. The storm caused 34 ...
The frigid temperatures will stretch as far south as Texas, where one person was found dead outside a bus shelter in Houston Monday morning as overnight temperatures average in the low 30s. Gov.
The skies over St. Petersburg, Florida, turned purple as Hurricane Milton approached the Florida coast last week, a phenomenon that has been seen in other hurricanes such as Delta, Dorian, and ...
Typhoon Gay shortly before landfall in Thailand. Thailand is typically affected by 2.9 tropical cyclones per year, mostly as tropical depressions. In November 1989, Typhoon Gay became the first typhoon on record to make landfall in Thailand since 1891, damaging 38,000 houses and killing 602 people. Monetary losses reached 11 billion baht (US ...