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Hurricane Irma struck the British Virgin Islands as a Category 5 hurricane during the daylight hours of Wednesday, 6 September 2017. [2] It caused widespread destruction, and killed a total of four people. [3] The eye of the hurricane traveled over the three major islands in the group: Virgin Gorda, Tortola and Jost Van Dyke.
Commons: Irma images. Hurricane Irma was an extremely powerful and devastating tropical cyclone that was the first Category 5 hurricane to strike the Leeward Islands on record, followed by Maria two weeks later. At the time, it was considered the most powerful hurricane on record in the open Atlantic region, outside of the Caribbean Sea and ...
Hurricane Irma is the most powerful tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Virgin Islands. The Virgin Islands (Spanish: Islas Vírgenes) are an archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. The islands fall into three different political jurisdictions: Spanish Virgin Islands, the easternmost islands of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, itself an ...
Caribbean residents are sharing photos from inside Hurricane Irma -- Category 5 storm and one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history.
Hurricane Irma has spent the past day and a half wreaking havoc in the Caribbean. Irma is now a Category 4 storm, having downgraded from Category 5.
The hurricane can produce storm surge of more than 20ft, completely flooding a two-story house along the beach. The winds, Feerick added, would be “unbelievable.”. “You would have debris ...
RMS Rhone was a UK Royal Mail Ship owned by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSP). She was wrecked off the coast of Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands on 29 October 1867 in a hurricane, killing 123 people. She is now a popular Caribbean wreck dive site. [4]
Milton, which comes just after the recent catastrophic Hurricane Helene, has strengthened to a Category 4 storm as it approaches Florida’s Gulf Coast and is expected to make landfall late Wednesday.