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Hurricane Dorian at peak intensity while making landfall in the Abaco Islands on September 1, 2019. The Bahama Archipelago, also known as the Lucayan Archipelago, is an archipelago comprising the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and the British Overseas Territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands.
The most intense hurricane to strike the Bahamas was Hurricane Dorian in 2019, with wind gusts of up to 355 kilometres per hour (221 mph) being recorded. 84 people died (74 of which were from the Bahamas), and there was catastrophic damage to buildings, homes, and boats, and sometimes complete destruction. Preliminary damage estimates are in ...
San Salvador Island, previously Watling's Island, is an island and district of the Bahamas, famed for being the probable location of Christopher Columbus's first landing of the Americas on 12 October 1492 during his first voyage.
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
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]
The fourth tropical storm and third hurricane of the 1932 Atlantic hurricane season, it belonged to a pair of Category 5 storms in the Atlantic Ocean that year, the other happening in November. The cyclone formed north of the Virgin Islands on August 30, over the next three days gradually strengthening.
Hurricane Joaquin (/ hw ɑː ˈ k iː n / hwah-KEEN; Spanish: Huracán Joaquín [uɾaˈkaŋ xoaˈkin]) [1] was a powerful tropical cyclone that devastated several districts of The Bahamas and caused damage in the Turks and Caicos Islands, parts of the Greater Antilles, and Bermuda. It was also the strongest Atlantic hurricane of non-tropical ...
Hurricane Dorian was the strongest hurricane to affect The Bahamas on record, causing catastrophic damage on the islands of Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama, in early September 2019. The cyclone's intensity, as well as its slow forward motion near The Bahamas, broke numerous records.