Leeward Islands (Caribbean) - Governors of the Leeward Islands, Hurricanes in the Leeward Islands, Hurricane Dean, Hurricane Earl (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 83. Chapters: Governors of the Leeward Islands, Hurricanes in the Leeward Islands, Hurricane Dean, Hurricane Earl, Hurricane Georges, Hurricane Hugo, 1928 Okeechobee hurricane, Hurricane Marilyn, Hurricane Otto, Hurricane Omar, Hurricane David, Hurricane Luis, Hurricane Donna, Tropical Storm Ana, Hurricane Allen, Tropical Storm Erika, Hurricane Debby, 1909 Monterrey hurricane, Tropical Storm Christine, Hurricane Lenny, Hurricane Frederic, Hurricane Erika, Hurricane Bertha, Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland, Hurricane Jose, Tropical Storm Sebastien, Hugh Elliot, James Harford, Jenico Preston, 14th Viscount Gormanston, Benjamin Pine, Bickham Sweet-Escott, Douglas James Jardine, Thomas Pitt, 1st Earl of Londonderry, Charles Lees, Christopher Codrington, Clement Courtenay Knollys, Francis Fleming, Walter Douglas, Daniel Parke, Henry Turner Irving, Edward Merewether. Excerpt: Hurricane Dean was the strongest tropical cyclone of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the most intense Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Wilma of 2005, tying for seventh overall. Additionally, it made the third most intense Atlantic hurricane landfall. A Cape Verde-type hurricane that formed on August 13, 2007, Dean took a west-northwest path from the eastern Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lucia Channel and into the Caribbean Sea. It strengthened into a major hurricane, reaching Category 5 status on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale before passing just south of Jamaica on August 20. The storm made landfall on the Yucatan Peninsula on August 21 as a powerful Category 5 storm. It crossed the peninsula and emerged into the Bay of Campeche weakened, but still a hurricane. It strengthened briefly before making a second landfall near Tecolutla in the Mexican state of Veracruz on August 22. Dean drifted to the northwest, weakening into a remnant low ...