when did hurricane irma strike
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- Irma is the first recorded Category 5 hurricane to affect the northern Leeward Islands, and was one of the worst storms to hit the region on record, along with Hurricane Donna in 1960 and Hurricane Luis in 1995.
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Hurricane Andrew Hurricane Andrew. Hurricane Andrew was one of the most destructive hurricanes ever to hit the United States. It raged from August 16 to August 28 during the 1992 Atlantic hurricane season, impacting the northwestern Bahamas, southern Florida in the greater Miami area, and south-central Louisiana. Andrew caused $26 billion ($45 billion in 2005 US dollars) in damages and is the second most expensive hurricane in history (behind Katrina of the 2005 season). Note: The above text is excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hurricane Andrew, which has been released under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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- Hurricane Andrew 1992 One of the most destructive United States hurricanes of record started modestly as a tropical wave that emerged from the west coast of Africa on August 14. The wave spawned a tropical depression on August 16, which became Tropical Storm Andrew the next day.
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Hurricane Irma bears down on Florida Keys, at least 1 dead Hurricane Irma's leading edge bent palm trees and spit rain as the storm swirled toward Florida on Saturday. As of 7 a.m. ET Sunday, 478,340 customers in Florida were without power. In Miami-Dade County alone, 250,740 were without power.
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- September 01, 2017, 10:19:34 AM EDT. While the Gulf Coast continues to deal with the devastating impacts of Harvey, emergency managers in the United States have another tropical threat to monitor by the name of Irma.
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Hurricane Irma's path Photos: Hurricane Irma tears through the Caribbean, Florida Two other images show how air traffic over south Florida has come to a standstill. The first flight radar image shows the absence of virtually any flights over the southern part of the state Saturday.
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Andrew As with many of the worst Atlantic hurricanes, Andrew was born as a result of a tropical wave which moved off the west coast of Africa wave and passed south of the Cape Verde Islands. It became a tropical storm on August 17, 1992 and moved uneventfully west northwestward across the Atlantic.urricane Andrew August 24, 1992 Hurricane Andrew caused an estimated $26 billion damage in the United States making it the most expensive natural disaster in United States history.
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Irma slowly turns to Florida; Key West feels hurricane-force winds (CNN)Time is running out to evacuate and prepare for Hurricane Irma, officials warned Saturday night as violent winds and rains from the Category 3 storm began pounding the southern tip of Florida. Irma's powerful winds and outer rain bands lashed the Florida Keys on Saturday as the massive storm slowly began turning from Cuba's northern coast up into the Florida Strait, the National Hurricane Center said.
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2004 Atlantic hurricane season 2004 Atlantic hurricane season. The 2004 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest Atlantic hurricane season on record until surpassed by the following year. More than half of the 16 tropical cyclones brushed or struck the United States. The season officially began on June 1, and ended on November 30.
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The Storm Reaches Puerto Rico: âThere Is Nothing Like Thisâ This is Wednesday’s storm coverage. Read the latest with Friday’s live updates on Hurricane Irma. • Hurricane Irma, one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic, hit the eastern Caribbean on Wednesday with winds of up to 185 miles an hour, but had slowed to 180 m.p.h. by Thursday morning.
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These Are The Islands Hit By Hurricane Irma The Red Cross says an estimated 1.2 million people have been affected by the hurricane and that number could rise to 26 million. Here are the islands so far affected by the devastating hurricane: Antigua and Barbuda. This sovereign nation of two islands was the first to be hit by Hurricane Irma on Wednesday. Barbuda, the less populated, was by far the worst hit.
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Hurricane Irma roars through Caribbean; rains pummel Puerto Rico Hurricane Jose comes on the heels of powerful Hurricane Irma, while Hurricane Katia formed in the Gulf of Mexico. This is a map as seen around 5 p.m. on Wed., Sept. 6, 2017. National Hurricane Center
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Wind and Trees: Surveys of Tree Damage in the Florida Panhandle after Hurricanes Erin and Opal 1 In 1995 two hurricanes impacted the Florida Panhandle. The first, on August 3, was Erin, a slow-moving hurricane which struck the Pensacola area with sustained winds of 85 mph. Two months later, on October 4, Opal moved through the Ft. Walton Beach area more quickly and had sustained winds of 125 mph.
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Destructive winds, rain hit Florida as Hurricane Irma makes landfall in the Keys MIAMI — The fierce winds of Hurricane Irma regained Category 4 strength early Sunday as the storm’s eye made it to the lower Florida Keys just before 9 a.m. The massive storm already has caused a million buildings to lose power across South Florida as its leading edge lashed several major population centers.
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- Storm Special! View the latest observations near Atlantic Hurricane Irma as of Advisory Number 6 @ 500 PM AST Thu Aug 31 2017 and East Pacific Tropical Storm Lidia as of Advisory Number 9 @ 300 PM MDT Thu Aug 31 2017.
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- 2) Hurricane Maria was like a 50-mile-wide tornado that made a direct hit on the island NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens This hurricane season has been punishing for Puerto Rico. First, it got clipped by Hurricane Irma, a huge Category 5 storm whose eye passed just north of the island. That storm — which had ravaged several Caribbean islands — left 1 million people without power on Puerto Rico. By the time Maria hit, 60,000 people were
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How Climate Change Likely Strengthened Recent Hurricanes The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season has been extremely active, and deadly. Between Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, plus Jose, thousands of structures have been destroyed and many people have been killed, injured, or displaced. Hurricane Harvey's deadly cocktail of wind and moisture hit America's fourth-largest city with a ferocity that Texas has never seen. And while scientists maintain that no single weather event can be attributed to climate change, two centuries of human fossil-fuel burning has altered temperatures just enough to almost certainly make this particular storm worse.
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The Great New England Hurricane of 1938 Home | History | Meteorology | Damage Photos | Video | News Clippings | References. Check out WFO Boston/Taunton's 1938 Hurricane Page. On September 21, 1938, one of the most destructive and powerful hurricanes in recorded history struck Long Island and Southern New England. The storm developed near the Cape Verde Islands on September 9, tracking across the Atlantic and up the Eastern Seaboard.
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- 1988- Hurricane Gilbert. On September 3, 1988, a tropical wave was detected on satellite imagery satellite imagery as it moved off the coast of Africa. It would wreak havoc in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico for nearly nine days and become the most destructive storm in the history of Jamaica.
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Hurricane Irma How Many Lives Were Lost Hurricane Irma food stamp sign Posted on Wed, 22 Nov 2017 02:31:00 Two of South Florida's largest sporting venues will be used to distribute Hurricane Irma food assistance after crowds overwhelmed county parks earlier this month. The BB&T Center in Sunrise and Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens will serve as sign-up locations Nov. 7-9 for Food for Florida relief efforts. The program -;
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How Long Does it Take to Earn a Masterâs Degree Online? 1 Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree Programs: This program permits a student to earn both their bachelor’s and master’s degrees in five years of full-time school.
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Hurricane Irene (1999) Hurricane Irene was a hurricane that produced somewhat heavy damage across southern Florida during the 1999 Atlantic hurricane season. The ninth tropical storm and the sixth hurricane of the season, Irene developed in the western Caribbean Sea on October 13 from a tropical wave.
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Hurricane Irma caused sizable damage in Naples, drone footage shows The storm hit the city, on Florida's west coast, around 5 p.m., and parts of it are facing significant flooding. Brian Emfinger/LSM PHOTO: Drone footage shows Hurricane Irma damage in Naples, Fla., Sept. 10, 2017.
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Hurricane Irma Recap Irma made landfall as a Category 5 hurricane late Friday night along the Camaguey Archipelago of Cuba. This is the first landfall of a Category 5 hurricane in Cuba since 1924, based on NOAA's historical hurricane tracks database. In Ciego de Avila, Cuba, Saturday morning, a wind gust to 159 mph was reported. Florida Battered
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Effects of Hurricane Irene in New York Hurricane Irene formed from a tropical wave on August 21, 2011 in the tropical Atlantic Ocean. It moved west-northwestward, and within an environment of light wind shear and warm waters. Shortly before becoming a hurricane, Irene struck Puerto Rico as a tropical storm. Thereafter, it steadily strengthened to reach peak winds of 120 mph (195 km/h) on August 24. Irene then gradually weakened and made landfall on the Outer Banks of North Carolina with winds of 85 mph (140 km/h) on August 27.
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