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One was killed when a wall collapsed and fell on them, and five others were killed when their plane went missing over Roatan Island. A bridge along the Pan-American Highway collapsed, which had been rebuilt only two years before due to Hurricane Mitch. A government agency reported that more than 80,000 people were left isolated in parts of ...
Hurricane Mitch, the strongest storm of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season, formed on October 22, and after becoming a Category 5 hurricane, it weakened and struck Honduras on October 29. While near peak intensity, Mitch struck the offshore Guanaja island, where it nearly destroyed the mangrove forest. On the mainland, the hurricane dropped ...
It was the deadliest hurricane in Central American history, surpassing Hurricane Fifi–Orlene, which killed slightly fewer people in the same area in 1974. Mitch was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane in the satellite era, and the second-deadliest on record in the Atlantic, only behind the Great Hurricane of 1780 which killed at least 22,000 people.
Tropical Storm Sara brought life-threatening floods and mudslides to parts of Central America on Saturday as it continued its trek near the Bay Islands of Honduras toward Belize. Its path isn't ...
It was too early to know that he was heading directly into the storm's path. The plan was to make for the lee side of the island of Roatan. In case Mitch made landfall in the Yucatán or Belize, by being on the southern side of the island, it would provide her with enough protection to hopefully keep it from getting damaged by large swells and ...
Hurricane #Beryl has just become the first June Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in history. We have never seen such a strong hurricane this early in the season. This is exactly why we were so ...
From Hurricane Floyd in 1999 to Hurricane Ian in 2022, Timmer recently recounted his five most memorable hurricane inte. On top of chasing tornadoes, extreme meteorologist Reed Timmer has also ...
At 0710 UTC on September 18, the Hurricane hunters observed a minimum pressure of 947 mbar (28.0 inHg) just off the northern Honduras coast, which was the basis for the estimated peak intensity of 130 mph (210 km/h). [4] This made it a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson scale. [6] Satellite image of Hurricane Olivia in the eastern Pacific