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About Hurricane Felix
 
Hurricane Felix was followed after Hurricane Dean of August 22, 2007. Hurricane Dean hit along the Gulf Coast of Mexico but after that there was a peace for a little bit. However things began to change a week later when Labor Day started to approach. There were 5 places where the forecaster of National Hurricane Center monitored earlier that week. It would be this tropical wave that would develop the next storm, Hurricane Felix.
 
            Felix was the second Category Five Hurricane to happen in the Atlantic Basin in 2007 alone. IT gradually strengthened to a tropical storm on September 1, 2007. It was the second powerful storm in just 2 weeks after Hurricane Dean. It was also the eighth Category Five storm in the past five years and the ninth in the past ten years. It traveled to the West just to the North of the ABC islands (of the Netherlands Antilles) before coming ashore near Cabo Gracias A Dios which is in the far north Nicaragua. Approximately 130 people died in the worst disaster in Central America since Hurricane Mitch (1998).
 
 
 
            Felix grew to a Category Five Hurricane when it arrived at the coast of Nicaragua and Honduras in Central America. These countries are not new to dangerous Cat Five Hurricanes. IN 1998, Hurricane Mitch left both countries devastated after the 75 in. dump of rain and the 190 mph wind speed. Felix’s intensification will make 2007 the second year in the last three with more than one Category Five hurricane. 1961 SPELL OUT A NUMBER IF BEGINNING A SENTENCE was the only year that had more than two Cat 5 Hurricanes (Carla and Hattie). One of the most powerful storms of all time includes Felix in the top 30.
 
 
 
            Felix and Dean ended up being quite similar after Felix dramatically increased in strength with the second biggest drop in barometric pressure over a 24 hour period ever recorded in the Atlantic. Hurricane Wilma (10/2005) was the biggest drop of a fall of 83 millibars in 24 hours while Felix was 70 millibars. At its intensity, Felix had a maximum sustained wind of 165 miles per hour but the gust went up to 200 miles per hour! Felix became a Cat Five way before landfall unlike Dean which crossed Cat Five when it was just about to hit Yucatan Peninsula. Both storms weakened for a bit before re-strengthening to Cat Five. Felix had hurricane force winds extending 30 miles from its eye while most tropical storms could have 115 miles. Felix was small compared to Dean and other major tropical storms. Its eye got as small as 10 miles wide when it was about 500 miles East of Nicaragua.
 
 
 
             Felix went through the Southern Windward islands of Grenada, St. Vincent, the Grenadines, ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles) and just to the north of Venezuela. The ABC islands were rarely hit by tropical storms since they are about 10 degrees latitudes  NORTH? SOUTH?. Usually hurricanes form between 15 and 30 degrees North Latitude because they need to spin. They need to rotate in the warm sea surface temperatures and they need the light upper level winds to develop. If these storms get too close the equator, they can’t spin because there is no spin at the equator.
 
 
 
          

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  The result of this tropical storm was disastrous. It caused the tropical air to be lifted over the topographical barriers???. Due to this there was a lot of rainfall. Thankfully, Felix didn’t stay like Mitch did so there weren’t rainfalls like the rain of October 1998. However there was still a lot of tragedy like in Cabo Gracias A Dios, the storm whipped many coastal towns. As of Friday, September 7th, the death toll was about 130 people left dead in the wake of the storm. The Nicaragua government reported that the storm caused them more than $30 million dollars to cash crops and house. Accusations were given against the government that the residents were not given the proper warning of the hurricane which resulted many unnecessary deaths. The rest of Felix spread over El Salvador, Guatemala and the Chiapas section of Southern Mexico before crossing over into the Eastern Pacific basin.
 
 
 
            Because of Hurricane Felix????, there have been six depressions, six named storms, two hurricanes, two major hurricanes and two Category Five Hurricanes in the Atlantic so far in 2007.
 

 

 

 

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