REMEMBERING 2O10’S SEVERE WINDSTORMS — PART 2 Xynthia Tropical Storms and Hurricanes: Atlantic Basin Tropical Storms and Hurricanes: Pacific Basin Typhoons.
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REMEMBERING 2O10’S SEVERE WINDSTORMS — PART 2
XynthiaTropical Storms and Hurricanes:
Atlantic BasinTropical Storms and Hurricanes:
Pacific BasinTyphoonsCyclones
2O10 ATLANTIC BASIN TROPICAL STORM SEASON
14 NAMED STORMS WITH 5 CAT 4 HURRICANES BY SEPTEMBER 17
19 NAMED STORMS IN ALL
TROPICAL STORM/HURRICANE PATHS: SEPTEMBER 14TH
TROPICAL STORM/HURRICANE PATHS: OCTOBER 30TH
ATLANTIC BASIN TROPICAL STORMS AND HURRICANES: 2010
• Alex (H) June 21
• Bonnie July 27
• Colin Aug 3
• Danielle (H) Aug 21
• Earl (H) Aug.29
• Fiona Aug 30
ATLANTIC BASIN TROPICAL STORMS AND HURRICANES: 2010
• Gaston Sept 1
• Hermine Sept 6
• Igor (H) Sept 8
• Julia (H) Sept 12
• Karl (H) Sept 14
• Lisa (H) Sept 20
• Matthew Sept 24
ATLANTIC BASIN TROPICAL STORMS AND HURRICANES: 2010
• Nicole Sept 29
• Otto (H) Oct 6
• Paula (H) OCT 11
• Richard (H) Oct 21
ATLANTIC BASIN TROPICAL STORMS AND HURRICANES: 2010
• Shary (H) Oct 27
• Tomas (H) Oct 29
With one month to go, the 2010 Atlantic season had
produced 19 named storms, including 12 hurricanes,
making 2010 one of the top five busiest seasons ever..
Four major storms formed in 20 days, the fastest that four Category 4 hurricanes have
ever formed, beating the previous record of 24 days
set during 1999. .
TROPICAL STORM ALEX: The first named tropical
storm and the first to become a hurricane in the 2010
Atlantic Hurricane Season.
JUNE 26 - JULY 1, 2010
ALEX STARTED AS A TROPICAL WAVE IN THE CARIBBEAN: JUNE 20
After Alex formed on June 25, a tropical storm warning was issued for the east coast of Quintana Roo
on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and the east coast of Belize
In the central Caribbean Sea, the system produced heavy rainfall in
the Dominican Republic that caused flooding and prompted the
evacuation of more than 3,000 people.
TROPICAL STORM ALEX: LANDFALL AT BELIZE; JUNE 26
After making landfall in Belize and the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, Tropical Storm Alex strengthened again as it entered the very warm waters of the Bay of Campeche.
On the evening of June 28, a hurricane warning was issued for the coast of Texas, south of Baffin
Bay to the mouth of the Rio Grande, and by the Mexican Government from the Rio Grande south to La
Cruz.
FORECAST: TROPICAL STORM- HURRICANE ALEX
Although waves and winds along Alex’s path slowed work to stop the
BP Gulf Oil Spill, in its 71st day of 107 days, the good news is that the storm did not push the oil landward
faster or accelerate movement of the oil eastward into the Atlantic.
TROPICAL STORM COLIN
August 3, 2010
TROPICAL STORM COLIN: FORMS ON WED, AUGUST 3
HURRICANE EARL
Starting in 1980, the name, “Earl,” has been used in six Atlantic tropical storm
seasons.
Tropical storm Earl formed on Sunday , August 29th.
HURRICANE EARL BECOMES A CAT 4 STORM
AGAIN AS IT HEADS TOWARDS THE EAST
COAST OF USA
WIND BANDS EXTEND 200 MI FROM EYE
AUGUST 29 – SEPTEMBER 4, 2010
NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER: FLORIDA
AUGUST 29
DANIELLE, EARL AND FRANK: AUG 29
2010
THE YEAR OF “RECORD AND NEAR-RECORD” NATURAL
DISASTERS
Rain, floods, landslides, and water-borne diseases are typical after a tropical
storm, hurricane, typhoon, or cyclone.
IMPACTED NATIONS
Western Europe (France, Portugal, Spain), Caribbean (Haiti, Dominican Republic, Bermuda, Jamaica, Antigua, Montserrat, St. Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla, St. Maarten, St. Martin, Saint Lucia, Atlantic Canada, …
IMPACTED NATIONS (Continued)
St Barthelemy, Saba, and St Eustatius, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands), Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras), Cuba, …
IMPACTED NATIONS (Continued)
Mexico, USA (Texas, East Coast), The Philippines, Taiwan, China, …
SOCIETAL IMPACTS DURING 2010
• High winds, storm surges, heavy rains, landslides affected millions.
• Hundreds of thousands of homes without power, damaged, destroyed, or inundated.
• Hundreds of thousands evacuated.
• Lives and livelihoods of millions impacted.
• Gulf oil leak and Clean up slowed
SOCIETAL IMPACTS DURING 2010 (Continued)
• Infrastructure damaged and destroyed.
• Oil and gas platforms impacted.
• $ billions in insured and uninsured economic losses.
AUGUST 30-31
Hurricane Earl grew to a Category 4 storm with 5-10 inches of rain and 135 mph winds on Monday, tearing
roofs off buildings and cutting power along a path that included Anguilla, Antigua, Barbuda, St.
Martin/St. Maarten, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, on a likely course
towards the eastern USA.
HURRICANE EARL PHOTO-GRAPHED FROM ISS: AUG 30
FLOODING: ST JOHNS, ANTIGUA
More than 100,000 people were left without power in Puerto Rico.
Schools and government offices, were closed on Monday and
Tuesday.
The U.S. Virgin Islands imposed a curfew from 6 p.m. Monday to 5:30 a.m. Tuesday for the islands of St.
Thomas and St. John.
Airline flights were cancelled throughout the area and cruise
lines diverted ships to other ports in the Caribbean and Mexico,
customary precautionary measures.
AUGUST 31: HURRICANE EARL’S FORECAST
On August 30th , the National Hurricane Center announced the
formation of Tropical Storm Fiona.
SEPTEMBER 1
SEPTEMBER 1
• On Wednesday morning, September 1, Hurricane Earl diminished to a very large CAT 3 storm with winds of 125 mph and wind bands extending 200 miles radially from the eye..
SEPTEMBER 1
• Later during the day, Hurricane Earl strengthened again to a huge CAT 4 storm. .
HURRICANE WATCHES AND WARNINGS
• The National Hurricane Center has hurricane watches and warnings in effect from Cape Hatteras (North Carolina) to Cape Cod (Massachusetts).
HURRICANE EARL’S FORECAST: SEPT 1
Under the forecast for Earl, the Cape Hatteras, NC, area was at highest risk on Friday morning,
September 3rd, and the Massachusetts' Cape Cod and the
Maine shoreline on Friday night and Saturday morning.
.
5,000 EVACUATE NORTH CAROLINA’S OUTER BANKS: SEPT 1
On September 1st, the National Hurricane Center announced the
formation of Tropical Storm Gaston.
EARL AND TROPICAL STORMS FIONA AND GASTON: SEPT 1
Tropical Storm Hermine changed from a tropical depression 10 to a tropical storm and formed in the
Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas on Monday, Sept. 6th.
TROPICAL STORM HERMINE MADE LANDFALL IN NORTHERN MEXICO
A RAINMAKER IN MEXICO AND TEXAS
SEPTEMBER 4-7, 2010
The trajectory of Tropical Storm Hermine did not give it enough time
to become a hurricane before making landfall in Mexico on
Tuesday, Sept. 6th.
TROPICAL STORM HERMINE: SEPT 6, 2010
Unlike Hurricane Alex, which swiped Texas then plunged
southwest into Mexico, Hermine was more memorable in Texas,
dumping from 5 to 12 inches of rain in San Antonio, ripping off roofs in
Raymondville, and disrupting power for 35,000 in the Rio Grande Valley.
.
TROPICAL STORM HERMINE: SEPT 7, 2010
Mexican emergency officials in Tamaulipas worked to evacuate 3,500 people around Matamoros,
across the border from Brownsville, Texas; Schools on both sides of the border canceled classes Tuesday.
.
TROPICAL STORM IGOR FORMS IN ATLANTIC
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
TROPICAL STORM IGOR: SEPT 8, 2010
TROPICAL STORM IGOR IN FAR ATLANTIC: SEPT 10
HURRICANE IGOR (LEFT) & TROPICAL STORM JULIA (RIGHT): SEPT 12, 2010
The Atlantic basin had been registering record high
temperatures since March, according to U.S. archives.
,”
The power of Igor and Julia, two Cat 4 hurricanes still moving through the Atlantic, is an indication of how warm the Atlantic water still was in September.
A RARE PHENOMENON: THREE ACTIVE HURRICANES ON SEPT 17
HURRICANES IGOR AND JULIA AND TS KARL: SEPT 15, 2010
HURRICANE IGOR APPROACHING BERMUDA: SEPT 16, 2010
Karl made landfall on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico
as a strong tropical storm, and then made landfall near Veracruz, Veracruz State, on
the central Mexican Gulf coast, as a major hurricane.
Tropical storm Karl became a Cat 1 hurricane on September 16th.
KARL: 165 KM FROM VERACRUZ; SEPTEMBER 17
TROPICAL STORM KARL: SEPT 14-17, 2010
It was not the best time for a “rainmaker” like Karl to
make landfall near Veracruz, because rain had been
falling in the area since mid-August.
Karl dumped 8 inches (21.5 cm of rain in Veracruz within
90 minutes, 31.4 cm in the nearby mountains, and 25.4 cm across the central and southern Gulf coast region before drenching Mexico
City.
FLOODING IN ANTIGUA: 35 KM FROM VERACRUZ; SEPT 17
Karl caused widespread damage in Veracruz:
knocking down hundreds of trees, billboards, and power
poles, leaving 80 % of the city without electricity, and
upending cars.
State-owned Petroleos Mexicanos closed 14
production wells in the northern part of Veracruz
state and evacuated workers from some oil platforms in
the Gulf.
The Laguna Verde nuclear power plant was shuttered
and workers were evacuated.
TROPICAL STORM MATTHEW: SEPT 24, 2010
MATTHEW WEAKENS, BUT STILL A RAINMAKER: SEPT 26, 2010
After landfall in Belize, Matthew’s rains and winds
hit Honduras and Nicaragua on Friday (24th), forcing
hundreds of residents and tourists to evacuate and
threatening coffee and sugar crops.
The small economies of Guatemala, Nicaragua and
Honduras depend heavily on agricultural exports like
coffee and sugar.
Matthew moved northward towards Guatemala and
Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula as a rainmaker, losing force before reaching the Gulf of
Mexico where most of Mexico's oil platforms are
located.
KARL AND MATTHEW’S RAIN TRIGGERED LANDSLIDE IN MEXICO: SEPT 28, 2010
• Village in Santa Maria Tlahuitoltapec, Oaxca State buried by massive landslide.
TROPICAL STORM NICOLE FORMS NEAR CUBA: SEPT 2010
Nicole’s fast moving remnant joined another low pressure
system and became a big rainmaker for the East Coast,
from Florida to Maine.
TROPICAL STORM PAULA FORMS NEAR HONDURAS: OCT 11
PAULA HEADS TOWARDS CUBA AS CAT 2 HURRICANE: OCT 13
HURRICANE PAULA SOAKS CUBA’S TOBACCO FIELDS: OCT 16
Cuba's current weak economy was still recovering from 2008’s devastating trio of Hurricanes Gustav, Ike and Paloma that
caused $10 billion in damage to the tobacco fields of Pinar
del Rio and to other parts of the island.
.
On October 17th, Western Cuba was at high risk, because
whenever a big storm like Paula is moving slowly, it's going to spend a longer time dumping heavy rain, and it could still
strengthen again.
.
DEPRESSION 19 BECOMES TROPICAL STORM RICHARD: OCT 21
RICHARD BRUSHES HONDURAS ENROUTE TO MEXICO: OCT 23
Richard became a CAT 1 hurricane on Sunday, Oct
24th.
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AS A TROPICAL STORM AND HURRICANE; SHARY WAS NO PROBLEM: OCT 27
TOMAS BECAME A HURRICANE IN ONE DAY: OCTOBER 30
Recognizing the danger
Tomas represented to locations in the eastern
Caribbean, Haiti, and possibly the Gulf of Mexico, all nations
were advised to pay close attention to Tomas’ path during
the first week of November.
.
In the eastern Caribbean, Tomas left at least 14 dead, many homeless, and island
nations suffering from millions of dollars in
damages to banana crops, housing, and infrastructure
from wind, flooding, and landslides
TOMAS: IMPACTS BARBADOS
Tomas, as a CAT 2 storm, was the “the worst in Saint. Lucian history,” causing the loss of its
entire banana crop, which along with tourism, is extremely
important to Saint Lucia’s economy.
.
TOMAS: IMPACTS SAINT LUCIA
Hurricane Tomas, which intensified overnight on Thursday (Nov. 4) to CAT 1, is bearing down on Haiti, a country with a triple disaster: 1) the January 12, 2010 earthquake, 2) cholera affecting at least 6,700 people, and 3) more than 1 million people still living in tents.
.
"Haiti and the Dominican
Republic occupy the same island, but Haiti has a much bigger landslide problem, because the Dominican
Republic still has its forests and Haiti does not.
.
A TREELESS, LANDSLIDE-PRONE HAITI FACING TOMAS, A RAINMAKER
HAITIANS: AWAITING EVACUATION ON NOV 4th
HAITIAN’S POOREST OF THE POOR WITH NO PLACE TO GO
Tomas, a CAT I storm and rainmaker, came ashore at
Haiti's far southwestern edge on Nov. 5th, slamming the
coastline with 135 kph (85-mph) winds and deluging the area
with heavy rain.
.
RELATIVE GOOD NEWS: Perhaps, only six deaths
along with an early indication that, except for localized flooding, most of the tent cities were spared.
.
Leogane, which had already
lost 90 percent of its buildings and thousands of people in the
Jan. 12th quake, is one of several Haitian towns that were
not spared from flooding.
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LEONGANE: COPING WITH OLD AND NEW DISASTERS, NOV 5
Old and new disasters were mingled in Leogane, where
milky-brown floodwaters filled quake-cracked streets and
patched-up homes and isolated a camp that had become home
to hundreds of refugees.
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FLOODING IN CITI SOLELI, HAITI: NOV 5
A RESCUE IN LEONGANE, ONE OF HAITI’S FLOODED TOWNS
NOV 6: TOMAS HEADS INTO OPEN ATLANTIC TO DIE
NOV 13: REGION IN SO. CARIBBEAN DID NOT BECOME TS VIRGINIE
NOV 15: REGION IN SO. CARIBBEAN DID NOT BECOME TS WALTER
NOEVEMBER 30th If tropical storms Virginie and Walter had formed as
the 20th –21st storms of 2010, 2010, currently tied with 1995 as the 2nd busiest hurricane
season, would have taken over 2nd place.
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