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Hurricane Wilma 2005

The fierce hurricane made landfall in Mexico and tests the comprehensive prevention plan.

On October 21, 2005 Hurricane Wilma made landfall off the coast of Quintana Roo. With sustained winds that reached 280 km / h , it left one million victims in the country and economic losses of 30 million pesos , according to official figures.

The threat of the hurricane that gained brutal force in just 24 hours, going from category 2 to category 5 , with maximum sustained winds of 280 km / h this was something that really impacted everyone.

The phenomenon affected our country, where it claimed 4 victims, as well as Haiti, leaving 12 dead ; Cuba likewise 4 dead ; the Bahamas one person died from his attack ; and the United States left a balance of 3 1 dead.

A residence in the Hotel Zone, Cancun, Q. Roo.

"There is a terrible wind, the few trees that were already fell, blown away by the wind, only one radio is transmitting information, that of the City Council, but the antenna is getting worse and worse and it can fall at any time"

Edna del Valle, living in the Miramar Poniente neighborhood for MORE THAN 10 YEARS.

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Hurricane Stan 2005

It leaves more than 40 dead in Central America and Mexico.

It was then that the authorities of the States of Veracruz , Tabasco and Tamaulipas declared themselves in a state of maximum alert, issuing the call to the population to take refuge in the reception centers before the imminent arrival of tropical storm Stan , turned into Category 1 Hurricane , according to the scale of Saffir-Simpson . While in Central America, Stan has left 40 dead and more than 17,000 victims.

Winds reached sustained winds of up to 120 km / h , with more intense gusts, according to NOAA data ( National Hurricane Center ). The tropical storm combined with a cold front and caused severe damage in the north of Veracruz affecting some 170 municipalities , 800,000 people and 21,000 homes. >

In the Mexican territory, torrential rains caused floods in Yucatan and Campeche, causing the evacuation of 1,000 people and the total closure of schools in Chiapas. While in the state of Tabasco, the authorities were kept alert by the threat of heavy rains.

 Photographs of damage caused by Hurricane Stan in El Salvador.

TESTIMONY

Isidoro Trinidad

“This that just happened began on October 4 the rain as it was supposed to, but it was increasing and increasing, the rain day and night and we thought that it was going to stay that way, because it had happened on past occasions, but this time the river level increased and did not stop; in previous years the increase in the level of the river had already occurred and that is why we trusted ourselves; it was so that when we least realized the truth I had nowhere to run and we saw that the houses closest to the river were taking them away; The days went by and the level increased until we were forced to leave ... we lost everything. "

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Hurricane Paulina 1997

One of the deadly, destructive and expensive cyclones during the second half of the 20th century.

Paulina originated from a tropical wave on October 5, 1997 410 km south-southwest of Huatulco, Oaxaca. Initially it had an eastward shift, but then turned north-northwest. During the day October 7 , Paulina registered its maximum intensity reaching the category 4 on the scale of Saffir-Simpson with sustained winds of 215 km / h and gusts of up to 240 km / h . On the afternoon of October 8 , it made landfall near Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, causing serious damage to the coast of that state. At dawn on October 9 , he parked in the state of Guerrero, leaving the port of Acapulco practically destroyed, Paulina would dissipate in the early hours of the day October 10 in the state of Jalisco.

Hard to believe but this image was taken in Acapulco, Guerrero.

Unusual

Entire families were engulfed by the flows that devastated the hills, whose slopes were covered with irregular settlements. The cardboard, wood and palm districts, many of them built on the banks of rivers and streams, disappeared entirely from the map.

No doubt he spent a full week in the midst of terror with the sense of survival triggered to protect yours and your own life.

Testimony

Paulina produced a torrential record rainfall in Acapulco of 411.2 mm accumulated in less than 24 hours. The floods severely affected leaving 230 to 400 people dead . Nearly 300,000 people were left homeless and damages of 80 billion pesos were recorded.

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Hurricane Gilberto 1988

Gilberto the terrible hurricane of the 20th century

Es considerado como uno de los ciclones más devastadores registrados en el océano Atlántico. En México, Gilberto azotó los estados de Quintana Roo, Yucatán, Campeche, Nuevo León, Coahuila y Tamaulipas, causando la muerte de por lo menos 250 personas, y cerca de 150 mil damnificados, así como pérdidas por 750 millones de dólares. El huracán conocido como el del siglo XX, se formó el 8 de septiembre de 1988 como depresión tropical, durante  su desplazamiento por el agua del caribe fue intensificándose  hasta convertirse en un huracán de Categoría 3. Foto: Unión Cancún Golpeó la Isla de Jamaica causando la muerte de 49 personas, además de pérdidas millonarias en infraestructura, así como grave afectación a los cultivos. Tras alejarse de Jamaica, Gilberto volvió a intensificarse rápidamente alcanzando vientos sostenidos de 296 km/h y tocó nuevamente tierra el 14 de septiembre en la Península de Yucatán, siendo ya un poderoso huracán categoría 5, siendo Cozumel el primer afectado, continuando su trayecto en tierra por Playa del Carmen, X-can, y Chemax, manteniendo su misma categoría 5 hasta 85 kilómetros tierra adentro. Foto: Grupo SIPSE Fue hasta las 15:30 horas, que disminuyó su intensidad a categoría 4 durante su paso por Tizimín. Abandonó Yucatán cerca de las 19:00 horas, dejando a su paso cerca de 35 mil damnificados, 60,000 viviendas destruidas y daños de por más de 1 millón de dólares.
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Hurricane Liza 1976

This hurricane reached category 4 on September 30, 1976 before hitting the southern peninsula of Baja California and Sonora with force, it hit the bay of La Paz leaving in its wake a great devastation, and -to date more than 43 years after the event- there is no official death toll; The virtual sources that recall the cyclone indicate that the Ángel César Alvarado government initially spoke of 600 people being killed, however, since then it has been speculated that the victims could be between 2,000 and up to 5,000 . The natural phenomenon left 10,000 victims, with total damages of 3 million pesos .

Of course: all the sources consulted coincide in pointing to this cyclone as " The worst disaster in the history of Baja California Su r"

Oct. 2, 1976: Car rests on top of second in aftermath of Hurrican Liza that lashed La Paz, Mexico. Over 400 people were died in La Paz. This photo was published in the Oct. 3, 1976 Los Angeles Times.

Real evidence of Mrs. Irma

What Doña Irma remembers the most is the next day: October 1, when with her husband and son they went home to the Infonavit neighborhood .

"It looked like La Paz had been bombed," he said. In the course of his parents' house to his home, crossing as best they could by the Forjadores, he assures that from Morelos High School to Colima he saw approximately 30 or more citizens dead, semi-buried and full of mud , who had literally been thrown onto the streets by the streams. Many more did not have the same "luck", as the current took them directly to the sea, without their whereabouts ever being known.

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Hurricane Janet 1955

Renaissance Monument after Hurricane Janet (1955)

It is the first of which there is a record. The Hurricane Janet cataloged as category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, made landfall on September 27, 1955, in Quintana Roo. According to the press of the time, the most affected city was precisely its capital, Chetumal, leaving 712 dead in its wake (data from Cenapred ) and devastated practically all the houses that were found since most of them were made in such a way.

Unusual cases:
Each hurricane has its own way of leaving its mark and leaving something in particular that the population does not forget, in the case of Hurricane Janet, how to forget the flag that crossed a tree, from which there is a replica on the esplanade of the flag (main park of Chetumal). Another unusual case is that of the “flying house” and the concrete pond that was wound on a palm tree. The "flying house" exists is made of wood and zinc sheet, it is on the Veracruz road with 22 de Enero corner in the center of the city. The anecdote, " was dragged more than 500 meters from its initial location, with about 25 people inside, during the impact of Janet" .

This was the path Janet took

As it happens in our days, many people left the protection of their family and their homes until the end . Expensive they would pay big mistake. In addition, just a few days earlier, on September 19, another hurricane had visited south of Quintana Roo "Hilda" that had basically passed through the area of ​​Felipe Carrillo Puerto, causing very slight damage in Chetumal. Then it was naively thought that this had already covered the "annual quota" of hurricanes, today we know that this does not work that way, even the worst was lacking ...
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Increases the probability of having an Active Hurricane Season

10 to 17 named storms, 9 to 5 hurricanes, and 2 to 4 intense hurricanes are now expected.

Tormentas

10 a 17

Huracanes

9 a 5

Huracanes Cat. 4 o mayor

2 a 4
En National Hurricane Center (NOAA) informó la semana pasada que aumentó la posibilidad de tener una temporada de huracanes por encima de lo normal en lo que queda del año. El fenómeno de El Niño en el Océano Pacífico ha llegado a su fin, lo que propiciará que las condiciones   en el Océano Pacífico estén un poco más favorables para el desarrollo de sistemas tropicales. The probability that an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season is now 45% In May this year the NOAA said the probability of this was 30%
Fuente: NOAA
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Hurricanes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters

Hurricanes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters obey the same mathematical patterns.

Taking note of the magnitude of various catastrophic natural phenomena and plotting on a graph how many episodes of each of them have occurred throughout history, the result is not unpredictable. Quite the contrary, it follows a very well-defined curve in which, luckily, the greater their devastating capacity, the less frequently they convert.

For example, very few earthquakes become catastrophic, while numerous small earthquakes or earthquakes continually occur that most of them are so weak that they go unnoticed by people and can only be detected by very sensitive instruments. But this information is essential to calculate the associated risks.

However, this dependency is not always the same or conforms to the same mathematical function, particularly with respect to larger events. Álvaro Corral and Álvaro González, researchers from the Center for Mathematical Research (CRM) and the Department of Mathematics of the UAB, have carried out an accurate statistical analysis of a whole set of natural phenomena that can cause disasters: Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Forest fires, Meteorite impacts in the atmosphere, torrential rains and subsidence of the ground.

After analyzing the data of thousands of episodes of different intensity of each one of these phenomena, these researchers have managed to describe with the same mathematical technique the functions that relate the frequency of these phenomena to the value of their magnitude or size. Most of them follow the so-called power law , according to which the events are more and more abundant the smaller they are, without having a “normal” or typical size

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Hurricane Hazards

While hurricanes pose the greatest threat to life and prosperity, tropical storms and depression can also be devastating. The main hazards from cyclones (including tropical depressions, tropical storms, and hurricanes) are storm floods, inland flooding from heavy rains, destructive winds, tornadoes, and high rip currents.

  • The storm surge .- It is the abnormal increase in water generated by the winds of a storm. This hazard is historically the leading cause of hurricane related deaths in the United States. The storm surge and huge waves can cause great loss of life and cause massive destruction along the coast.
  • Floods .- Due to heavy rains, they are the second leading cause of death from tropical cyclones. Widespread torrential rains associated with these storms often cause flooding hundreds of miles inland. This flood can persist for several days after a storm has dissipated.
  • Los vientos.- Cuando son de un huracán pueden destruir edificios y casas prefabricadas. Las señales, el material del techo y otros elementos que se dejan afuera pueden convertirse en misiles voladores durante los huracanes.
  • Tornadoes .- They can accompany tropical cyclones that make landfall. These tornadoes generally occur in rain bands far away from the center of the storm.
  • Waves .- They are produced by strong winds and very dangerous due to a tropical cyclone and can represent a significant danger for coastal residents and sailors. These waves can cause deadly rip currents, significant beach erosion, and damage to structures along the shoreline, even when the storm is more than 1,600 kilometers from shore.
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Disappearance of El Niño, with it will come strong cyclonic activity: specialist

The peak of the hurricane season begins in late August

The current season has behaved weakly, but it is not necessary to let your guard down , since the phenomenon of El Niño is close to disappearing and with this it will begin to take more forces cyclonic activity in the Atlantic Ocean.

The meteorologist of the Institutional Committee for the Attention of Extreme Meteorological Phenomena of the UADY, Juan Vázquez Montalvo, pointed out that, so far, the hurricane season has developed very weakly, presenting only one event in advance, in May, with the formation of the Hurricane Andrea and Barry, this month.

Danger

Vázquez Montalvo recalled that it is precisely in September when the Yucatan Peninsula has been vulnerable to major cyclones such as Gilberto and Isidoro, which hit the State in September.

“Since we no longer have the El Niño phenomenon, we will be in neutral conditions with tendencies for La Niña to form. During this period, the trend is to have explosive cyclone growth, which has not happened until now, "he insisted.

In this sense, he explained that El Niño with its cutting winds does not allow cyclones to form and there is an erratic behavior as it happened with Barry, which did not allow it to develop.

source: sipse.com