Puerto Rico Hurricane History Timeline, 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season Wikipedia

A chronology of key events in the history of puerto rico.

Transparent puerto rico outline png. For an interactive map of the san felipe okeechobee hurricane visit the noaa office for coastal management. An additional 312 people died in puerto rico and 18 more were reported dead in the bahamas. Damage to property was estimated at 50000000 in puerto rico and 25000000 in florida.

Two hurricanes leave a trail of devastation and generate a political row over allegedly. Damage estimates are of 50000000 dollars which for that time is a very high amount. In puerto rico the damage was caused by flooding and damage estimates cannot be separated between david and frederick and are a total of 125 million dollars.

Looking at the history of hurricanes in puerto rico irma has without a doubt topped the charts as the strongest hurricane to overwhelm the island on record. Puerto rico was devastated by the storm and the towns were the eye passed directly over were the worst affected with many places becoming unrecognizable after the event. 10700 survivors sheltering in hotels in 40 states and puerto rico under the transitional sheltering assistance program.

It is remembered in the hurricane history of the antilles because the famous scientist and scholar father benito vines went to puerto rico from cuba to conduct a study to calculate the damages of the hurricane. It was the first hurricane in which a rain gauge was usedclarification needed2 san felipe affected puerto rico for ten hours. Pass few days after david.

Hurricanes irma and maria timeline of events in puerto rico february 1. The weak storm crossed puerto rico from east to west with winds of 50 mph and a pressure of 1004 millibars. Back to the top.

It slightly bumps up the time of the storms landfall predicting a wednesday morning arrival in puerto. At 5 am the national weather service issues the first hurricane watch for puerto rico. In september 2017 puerto ricos economic woes were compounded when hurricane maria a category 4 hurricane with some 150 mph winds made direct landfall on the island.

Puerto rico profile timeline. Hurricane isaias i s i s was a destructive category 1 hurricane that caused extensive damage across the caribbean and the east coast of the united states while also spawning a large tornado outbreak that generated the strongest tropical cyclone spawned tornado since hurricane rita in 2005the ninth named storm and second hurricane of the extremely active and record.