Hurricanes in Puerto Rico

 Puerto Rico known for being hit by Hurricanes

 It was mostly destroyed by every hurricane that had

passed through it.

 Would usually be receiving high levels of storm surge

 Very near to the equator so it can be one of the first

victims of a hurricane
Hurricanes that Destroy Puerto Rico
Hurricane Hurricane Pattern Prediction
Earl Hurricane moves steadily If Earl was to continue it
from the equator passing would go through Central
Puerto Rico as a America and further into
Category 3 taken from the southwest
nasa.com Prediction based from
weather.com

Irene Moves from the equator If Irene was to continue it

and goes through a would cross through the
diagonal pattern passing north east prediction
Puerto Rico based from
accuweather.com
Dean Moves from northern If Dean were to continue
South America towards it would head for Central
Puerto Rico in a diagonal America and into the
pattern. southwest

Sandy Hurricane originating If Sandy were to continue

near the the top of South it would head towards
America and passing Southern Canada
through taken from
huffingtonpost.com
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Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Category 4 Category 5
Hurricane Category Wind Speed Storm Surge

Irene Category 3 Peak at 120 mph 7ft of storm surge

Taken from taken from
noah.com noaa.com

Sandy Category 2 Peak at 84 mph 11ft of storm

Taken from surge taken from
scientificamerican. Theatlanticcities.c
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Earl Category 4 Peak at145mph Storm surge of 6ft
takem from taken from
wikipedia.com wikipedia.com

Dean Category 5 Peak at 175mph 13ft of storm

Taken from surge
wikipedia.com Taken from
wikipedia
Hurricane Year month Hurricane Date Duration Distance
Category

Irene 2011 August Cat 3 8/11/12 7 days

Earl 2010 August Cat 4 8/25/10 9 days

Dean 2007 August Cat 5 8/13/07 10 days

Sandy 2012 October Cat 2 10/22/12 9 days