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Dorian briefly developed a 10-mile (15 km) wide eye on radar on a couple occasions, but it quickly eroded because of mid-level dry air incursions. [10] Dorian soon took a more northwesterly direction as a result of a weakness in a ridge, caused by a mid- to upper-level low (cold-core cyclone) located to the north of the island of Hispaniola. [11]
Dorian is one of only two Category 5 hurricanes to make landfall on the Abaco Islands, the other having occurred in 1932, [241] and is the only such storm on record to have impacted Grand Bahama. [242] With Dorian, 2019 became the fourth consecutive year to produce at least one Category 5 hurricane in the North Atlantic. [243] [nb 2]
Dorian also dropped an estimated 3.0 ft (0.91 m) of rain over The Bahamas. [16] Hurricane Dorian killed at least 70 people in The Bahamas – 60 on Abaco and 10 on Grand Bahama. [17] One of the fatalities was classified as indirect. [18] Damage amounted to US$3.4 billion. [19] Insured losses alone were confirmed to be at least US$1 billion. [20]
The storm will cost the company around $30 million over all of 2019, the company said.
Dorian made successive landfalls in Barbados and St. Lucia on August 27 with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (80 km/h). Following a reformation of the core, the storm turned northwest and gained strength. Coincident with the formation of an eye, Dorian achieved hurricane strength as it struck St. Croix and St. Thomas shortly thereafter.
While few of these tornadoes resulted in significant impact, two longer-lived, EF2 strength tornadoes in North Carolina caused at least $2 million in property damage in Sunset Beach and Emerald Isle. Heavy rainfall led to flash flooding , putting more than 100 sq mi (260 km 2 ) of land under more than 1 ft (0.30 m) of water.
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The primary data set used in cost distance analysis is the cost raster, sometimes called the cost-of-passage surface, [9] the friction image, [8] the cost-rate field, or cost surface. In most implementations, this is a raster grid , in which the value of each cell represents the cost (i.e., expended resources, such as time, money, or energy) of ...