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For those of you considering travel to the Caribbean islands - here's an extract from an article posted on our travel group about hurricanes - some islands are safer than others.

"Welcome back, so straight in to Caribbean Hurricane History and NOAA have a brilliant tool to visually show you all the... Show more

For those of you considering travel to the Caribbean islands - here's an extract from an article posted on our travel group about hurricanes - some islands are safer than others. "Welcome back, so straight in to Caribbean Hurricane History and NOAA have a brilliant tool to visually show you all the hurricane and storm paths ever recorded (https://www.bit.ly/2Z9TBYU). In the first screenshot I have stripped off anything below category one, and placed a 500 mile ring around Aruba for scale. The second screenshot shows Aruba's history. Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao (known as the ABCs - all Dutch) all pretty much stepped outside the pub before it all kicked off and Cuba doesn't fare too badly either, but the Western Islands like Barbados, Trinidad and Barbuda are right in the flight path - so bad you can barely see them under the coloured hurricane lines. And as for the most dangerous island? Puerto Rico seems to have the most tracks crossing over it (screenshot 3), with the nearby Virgin Islands a close second. As for category 5s (the purple lines) - Puerto Rico has had two hits (one back in 1928) and the the D.R. and Dominica one each (Dominica got hit by the same one as Puerto Rico). Hope that's helpful!" For those of you considering travel to the Caribbean islands - here's an extract from an article posted on our travel group about hurricanes - some islands are safer than others. "Welcome back, so straight in to Caribbean Hurricane History and NOAA have a brilliant tool to visually show you all the hurricane and storm paths ever recorded (https://www.bit.ly/2Z9TBYU). In the first screenshot I have stripped off anything below category one, and placed a 500 mile ring around Aruba for scale. The second screenshot shows Aruba's history. Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao (known as the ABCs - all Dutch) all pretty much stepped outside the pub before it all kicked off and Cuba doesn't fare too badly either, but the Western Islands like Barbados, Trinidad and Barbuda are right in the flight path - so bad you can barely see them under the coloured hurricane lines. And as for the most dangerous island? Puerto Rico seems to have the most tracks crossing over it (screenshot 3), with the nearby Virgin Islands a close second. As for category 5s (the purple lines) - Puerto Rico has had two hits (one back in 1928) and the the D.R. and Dominica one each (Dominica got hit by the same one as Puerto Rico). Hope that's helpful!" For those of you considering travel to the Caribbean islands - here's an extract from an article posted on our travel group about hurricanes - some islands are safer than others. "Welcome back, so straight in to Caribbean Hurricane History and NOAA have a brilliant tool to visually show you all the hurricane and storm paths ever recorded (https://www.bit.ly/2Z9TBYU). In the first screenshot I have stripped off anything below category one, and placed a 500 mile ring around Aruba for scale. The second screenshot shows Aruba's history. Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao (known as the ABCs - all Dutch) all pretty much stepped outside the pub before it all kicked off and Cuba doesn't fare too badly either, but the Western Islands like Barbados, Trinidad and Barbuda are right in the flight path - so bad you can barely see them under the coloured hurricane lines. And as for the most dangerous island? Puerto Rico seems to have the most tracks crossing over it (screenshot 3), with the nearby Virgin Islands a close second. As for category 5s (the purple lines) - Puerto Rico has had two hits (one back in 1928) and the the D.R. and Dominica one each (Dominica got hit by the same one as Puerto Rico). Hope that's helpful!"
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