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- Hurricane Maria was a deadly Category 5 hurricane that devastated the northeastern Caribbean in September 2017, particularly in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, which accounted for 2,975 of the 3,059 deaths.
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Maria was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since Mitch in 1998, and the tenth most intense Atlantic hurricane on record. Total monetary losses are estimated at upwards of $91.61 billion (2017 USD), mostly in Puerto Rico, ranking it as the fourth-costliest tropical cyclone on record .
- Sept. 16
- Sept. 17-18
- Sept. 19-20
- Sept. 21-23
- Sept. 24-27
- Sept. 28-30
Maria was born from a disturbance off the west coast of Africa on Sept. 12. On Sept. 16, the disturbance organized enough to become a tropical depressionabout 600 nautical miles east of Barbados. It was named Tropical Storm Maria that same day.
Maria rapidly intensified, becoming a hurricane by the afternoon of Sept. 17, a major hurricane by mid-morning on Sept. 18, and a Category 5 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 160 mph that evening. Keeping this intensity, Maria made landfall in Dominica shortly before midnight.
Dominica’s mountainous landscape weakened Maria to a high-end Category 4, but in the pre-dawn hours of Sept. 19, the storm regained Category 5 strength, this time with maximum sustained winds of 173 mph—the storm’s peak intensity. After passing within 30 miles of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, a slightly weakened Maria—which downgraded to a ...
On Sept. 21, hours after exiting Puerto Rico, Maria re-intensified yet again, this time to a Category 3. Maria’s center passed 30 to 40 nautical miles east of the Turks and Caicos Islands on Sept. 22.
Maria remained a major hurricane until Sept. 24, when it downgraded to a strong Category 2 storm. It weakened to a Category 1 later that night. Over the next few days, the storm tracked parallel to the U.S. coastline, continuing to gradually weaken. It came within 150 miles of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on Sept. 27, bringing tropical-storm-forc...
On Sept. 28, Maria took a sharp turn eastward out into the open Atlantic, where it weakened to a tropical storm. On the morning of Sept. 30, Maria became post-tropical. It dissipated while over the north Atlantic, about 400 nautical miles southwest of Ireland.
Hurricane Maria struck the island of Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, as a Category 4 storm. The hurricane traversed the island from southeast to northwest and produced recorded 48-hour rainfall totals of up to 30.01 inches.
Aug 1, 2018 · Less than two weeks after Hurricane Irma and a month after Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Maria hit numerous islands in the Caribbean. It became a Category 3 storm Sept. 18 after doubling in strength in just 24 hours .
Maria is the first Category 4 hurricane to directly impact Puerto Rico in 85 years. Nearly the entire population of Puerto Rico -- more than 3 million American citizens -- are without...
Maria became a 100-kt major hurricane by 1200 UTC 18 September, and just 12 h later, as it neared Dominica, it became a category 5 hurricane with maximum winds of 145 kt.
Sep 26, 2017 · Early on Wednesday, September 20, Hurricane Maria — a powerful Category 4 hurricane with 150 mph winds — made direct landfall on Puerto Rico, bisecting the entire island and drenching it with...
