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Hurricane Wilma about to exit the Yucatan Peninsula on 22 October. Hurricane Wilma produced torrential rainfall while moving slowly near the Yucatán Peninsula. Over a 24-hour period beginning at 12:30 UTC on October 21, a rain gauge on the offshore Isla Mujeres recorded 1,633.98 mm (64.330 in) of precipitation. This broke the record for Mexico ...
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar.It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; the others were "Okeechobee" in 1928, Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992, Michael in 2018, and Yutu in 2018, which ...
The hurricane damaged more than 30,000 homes and left 1,900 people homeless. The storm also damaged 1,373 businesses and destroyed 50, including a hospital. The storm killed 3, injured 38, [36] and caused up to $330 million in damage (2004 USD). [35] This was the first hurricane ever reported in the Atlantic, south of the equator.
While hurricanes might not have impacted the overall domination of agricultural production in the Caribbean, individual storms in the 1840s affected infrastructure and the fields for subsistence farmers and larger growers. [12] On October 4, 1844, Hurricane San Francisco de Asis struck the island of Cuba.
Atlantic hurricanes and tropical cyclones that affected Mexico — hitting the Gulf Coast of Mexico &/or Caribbean coast of the Yucatán Peninsula. Subcategories This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.
A pier was smashed while Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc on Mexico as it advanced across the coast towards the US on Wednesday, 25 September. Samantha Holland, who filmed strong winds in Cancun ...
The 1992 Atlantic hurricane season was among the least active of any Atlantic hurricane season on record. It produced six named tropical cyclones.The season officially started on June 1, 1992, and ended on November 30.
After Hurricane Otis escalated into a Category 5 storm last night (24 October), concerns over the safety of travel to Mexico and the risk of further natural disasters have risen.