The United States was the worst affected country. Officials attributed 107 deaths to Hurricane Harvey.īetween October 22 and November 2, 2012, Hurricane Sandy caused over US$68.7 billion worth of damage as it travelled across the Atlantic. Wind speeds of 130 mph (215 km/h) were recorded. Damages worth USD$125billion were reported. The states of Texas and Louisiana were most affect by Hurricane Harvey. It intensified to a Category 4 storm before making landfall in the Southern United States. The system impacted the Caribbean as a tropical storm. Photo: /cdwheatley)īetween August 17 and September 2, 2017, Hurricane Harvey left a trail of destruction across the Atlantic. (Barbuda was left uninhabitable after it was impacted by Hurricane Irma. The official death toll after Hurricane Irma was 134. Irma was the second major hurricane of 2017 with a wind speed of 180 mph (285 km/h). Cuba and Florida felt the brunt of the US$ $77.2 billion in damages left behind. (Dominica after it was ravaged by Hurricane Maria.)īetween August 14 and September 14, 2017, Hurricane Irma ravaged the islands of the Leeward Islands (especially Barbuda, Saint Barthelemy, Anguilla, Saint Martin and the Virgin Islands), Cuba, Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos Islands, The Bahamas, and Eastern United States. At least 3,059 people are known to have died during Maria. Hurricane Maria left the affected areas without electricity, clean food and water for months. Wind speeds of up to 175 mph (280 km/h) were felt in the affected areas, leaving $96.1 billion in damages in its wake. The most severe impacts were felt on the island of Dominica. (The aftermath of Hurricane Dorian on the Bahamas)īetween September 16 and October 2, 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico and the Lesser Antilles (Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, The Bahamas, and Turks and Caicos Islands) while they were still recovering from Hurricane Irma that had hit weeks before. Parts of Grand Bahama and the Abaco are still uninhabitable. The official death toll of Hurricane Dorian is 84, however, it’s believed to be much higher as hundreds of people, who were reported missing after the storm, have not been found. At least US$4.6 billion worth of damage were reported after Hurricane Dorian. Wind speeds of up to 185 mph (295km/h) were recorded. Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama felt the worst effects of Hurricane Dorian when the system remained stationary over the islands for at least a day. Here are the five most devastating hurricanes over the last decade:īetween August 24 and September 10, 2019, Hurricane Dorian made its way across the Caribbean causing damage across the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Canada and the Eastern United States. However, atmospheric conditions proved favourable for some to develop or intensify leading to the complete collapse of economies. Luckily most of these systems caused only minor damage to property and the environment. Over the last decade, at least 100 storms tropical storms and hurricanes have impacted states and territories in the Atlantic basin.
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