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The town of Ouanaminthe was particularly hard hit and the bridge between Ouanaminthe and Dajabón which links Haiti to the Dominican Republic was severely damaged. Trajectory of Hurricane Hanna in 2008, prior to its extra-tropical transition 2008. 16 August: Tropical Storm Fay crossed the entire country. [13]
Hurricane Gustav (/ ˈ ɡ ʊ s t ɑː v /) was the second most destructive tropical cyclone of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season.The seventh tropical cyclone, third hurricane, and second major hurricane of the season, Gustav caused serious damage and casualties in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, Cuba and the United States.
The meteorological history of Hurricane Gustav spanned eleven days, from August 25 to September 4, 2008. The tropical disturbance which eventually spawned Hurricane Gustav gathered on August 16, southwest of the Cape Verde islands, but was slow to develop as it trekked west across the Atlantic .
The season officially began on June 1, 2008, and ended on November 30, 2008, dates that conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones develop in the Atlantic basin. [3] The season's first storm, Tropical Storm Arthur , formed on May 30, and the last, Hurricane Paloma , dissipated on November 10.
The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season was the most destructive Atlantic hurricane season since 2005, ... At least 74 deaths were attributed to the hurricane in Haiti ...
A Reuters photographer gives some striking insight into the struggles of covering Hurricane Matthew's aftermath in Haiti.
Striking the Tiburon Peninsula as a Category 4 hurricane on the morning of October 4, Matthew was the strongest storm to directly impact Haiti since Hurricane Cleo in 1964. An anemometer at Antoine-Simon Airport in Les Cayes , east of where Matthew made landfall, measured a gust of 107 mph (172 km/h) before the station went offline.
The hurricane season that traditionally begins in June and runs through November is forecast to be severe this year. A gang-fueled crisis has devastated Haiti, and the U.N. estimates 360,000 ...