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Hurricane Maria was an extremely powerful and deadly Category 5 Atlantic 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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- Sept. 16
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- Sept. 19-20
- Sept. 21-23
- Sept. 24-27
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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.
Learn about the devastating Category 5 storm that hit the Caribbean in 2017, causing billions of dollars in damages and thousands of deaths. Find out how Maria rapidly intensified, made landfall in several islands, and left behind a trail of destruction and recovery challenges.
Aug 1, 2018 · Learn about the impact, recovery, and response of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and Haiti. See photos and stories of World Vision's relief efforts and how you can help.
Hurricane Maria made its first landfall on the Caribbean island nation of Dominica on Monday, September 18, as a Category 5 storm with winds topping 160 mph - the strongest hurricane on record...
Learn about the formation, intensification, landfall and impacts of Hurricane Maria, a category 5 storm that devastated Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2017. See images, maps, reports and videos of the storm's rainfall, winds, waves, surge, landslides and tornadoes.
Oct 4, 2017 · From a meteorological standpoint, Maria was nearly a worst-case scenario for the territory: The center of a huge, nearly Category 5 hurricane made a direct hit on Puerto Rico, lashing the...
Sep 16, 2021 · 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.
