Hurricane Dorian Bahamas 2019
2 2019 02 05 dorian is still battering grand bahama island and will continue for many more hours.
Hurricane dorian bahamas 2019. Following the nightmare that was hurricane dorian progress is being made to restore that hardest hit parts of the bahamas but there are other areas where help is still greatly needed and some. Hurricane dorian was the fourth named storm second hurricane and first major hurricane of the 2019 atlantic hurricane season. Hurricane dorian devastation in bahamas unprecedented officials say sept.
Hurricane dorian was an extremely powerful and devastating category 5 atlantic hurricane that became the most intense tropical cyclone on record to strike the bahamas and is regarded as the worst natural disaster in the country s history. Hurricane dorian slammed into the bahamas sunday the strongest on record to hit the northwestern part of the archipelago leaving residents seeking. Hurricane dorian is the strongest hurricane on record to have hit the bahamas and one of the strongest atlantic hurricanes on record.
It was also one of the most powerful hurricanes recorded in the atlantic ocean in terms of 1 minute sustained winds with these winds peaking at 185 mph. An aerial view of damage caused by hurricane dorian is seen in marsh harbour on great abaco island on september 4 2019 in great abaco bahamas. The hurricane then stalled over grand bahama for another day finally pulling away from the island on september 3.
Dorian formed on august 24 2019 from a tropical wave in the central atlantic and gradually strengthened as it moved toward the lesser antilles becoming a hurricane on august 28. 2019 storm caused extensive flooding that damaged homes and infrastructure on the northwest islands of abaco and grand bahama as well as widespread power outages.
