2. The hurricane is the most severe one of the
weather phenomena known as tropical
cyclones. These are systems of low pressure
with whose electric and rainy activity winds
rotate antihorariamente against the pointers
of the clock) in the North hemisphere. A
tropical cyclone with smaller winds or equal to
62 km/h is called tropical depression. When
the winds reach velocities from 63 to 117
km/h tropical storm is called and, upon
exceeding the 118 km/h, the tropical storm
becomes hurricane.
4. 10 HURACAN HUGO
15 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1989
The Hurricane Hugo was a devastating
hurricane category 5 that impacted Puerto
Rico, Saint Croix (Virgin Islands of the United
States) and Carolina Southern in 1989, killing
more than 50 people. The storm caused
thousands of million dollars in damages
(chiefly in Carolina Southern)
5.
6. 9 Hurricanes Ivan
The Hurricane Iván was the ninth tropical storm and the
fifth Hurricane of the season 2004. Iván reached an
intensity "unprecedented" in low latitude, with maximum
winds of 245 km/h, what classifies it as a hurricane
category 5. Iván caused damages in Granada, Barbados,
Tobago, San Vicente and the of Granada, Jamaica, Cuba,
Venezuela and the United States.
It entered to the Caribbean with category 2, whipping to
Granada during the half a day of September 7. Then it
moved away to the west, being fortified to the category 5,
being becoming the unique hurricane of the season in
reaching this level.
Since the Hurricane Allen in 1980, Gilbert in 1988, and
Mitch in 1998. there has not been hurricanes category 5 in
that zone of the Caribbean.
7.
8. 8-hurricanes dean
The Hurricane Of was the quarter storm in receiving
name, third cyclone tropical and first hurricane of the
Season of hurricanes in the Atlantic one, 2007, thus
same, was the hurricane more intense registered in
the basin of the Atlantic Ocean since the Hurricane
Wilma in 2005. It was a hurricane of the type called
"Green Tip" and moved in sense this-west through the
Caribbean Sea after to have passed on the Smaller
Antilles where left a balance of three dead persons,
one in the Dominican Republic; and devastations in
the Peninsula of Yucatan, Noble, Populates and
Veracruz (Mexico), where left 14 dead persons.
August 20 to the 20:00 Time of the Center reached
the Category 5.[1]
