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Hurricane David

Index Hurricane David

Hurricane David was an extremely deadly hurricane which caused massive devastation and loss of life in the Dominican Republic in August 1979. [1]

91 relations: Andros, Bahamas, Angle, Antonio Guzmán Fernández, Atlantic Canada, Atlantic hurricane, Îles des Saintes, Baní, Barbados, Basse-Terre Island, Caddyshack, Cape Hatteras, Cape Verde hurricane, Caribbean Sea, Charleston, South Carolina, Cuba, Destroyer tender, Dominica, Dominican Republic, East Coast of the United States, Extratropical cyclone, Faroe Islands, Florida, Florida Keys, Florida Today, Fort Pierce, Florida, Fort Young Hotel, Fort-de-France, Frigate, Fujita scale, Georgia (U.S. state), Grande-Terre, Greater Antilles, Guadeloupe, Haina Occidental Port, Haiti, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, Hispaniola, HMS Fife (D20), Hurricane Danny (1985), Hurricane Inez, Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Maria, Hurricane Matthew, Iceland, Intracoastal Waterway, Jai alai, Jarabacoa, Leeward Islands, Lesser Antilles, List of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes, ..., Lists of Atlantic hurricanes, Marie-Galante, Martinique, Maryland, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, Miami, Mount Washington (New Hampshire), National Hurricane Center, Neil Frank, New Castle County, Delaware, New England, New Hampshire, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, Palm Beach County, Florida, Palm Beach, Florida, Puerto Rico, Rapid intensification, Roseau, Saffir–Simpson scale, Saint Croix, San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, Savannah, Georgia, St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant, The Bahamas, The Maritimes, Tornado, Tropical cyclone, Tropical cyclone scales, United States Virgin Islands, Vero Beach, Florida, Virginia, Weather Prediction Center, West Palm Beach, Florida, Windward Islands, Windward Passage, 1930 Dominican Republic hurricane, 1966 Atlantic hurricane season, 1979 Atlantic hurricane season, 1979 in music, 1985 Atlantic hurricane season. Expand index (41 more) »

Andros, Bahamas

Andros Island is an archipelago within the Bahamas, the largest of the Bahamian Islands.

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Angle

In plane geometry, an angle is the figure formed by two rays, called the sides of the angle, sharing a common endpoint, called the vertex of the angle.

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Antonio Guzmán Fernández

Silvestre Antonio Guzmán Fernández (February 12, 1911 – July 4, 1982), best known as Antonio Guzmán, was a Dominican businessman and a politician.

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Atlantic Canada

Atlantic Canada is the region of Canada comprising the four provinces located on the Atlantic coast, excluding Quebec: the three Maritime provinces – New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia – and the easternmost province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Atlantic hurricane

An Atlantic hurricane or tropical storm is a tropical cyclone that forms in the Atlantic Ocean, usually in the summer or fall.

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Îles des Saintes

The Îles des Saintes ("Islands of the Saints"), also known as Les Saintes, is a small archipelago of the French Antilles (West Indies) located to the south of Basse-Terre Island, west of Marie-Galante and north of Dominica.

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Baní

Baní is a capital town of the Peravia Province, Dominican Republic.

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Barbados

Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of North America.

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Basse-Terre Island

For the largest city on the island of Basse-Terre and capital of Guadeloupe, see Basse-Terre.

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Caddyshack

Caddyshack is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis, and Douglas Kenney, and starring Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe and Bill Murray.

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Cape Hatteras

Cape Hatteras is a thin, broken strand of islands in North Carolina that arch out into the Atlantic Ocean away from the US mainland, then back toward the mainland, creating a series of sheltered islands between the Outer Banks and the mainland.

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Cape Verde hurricane

A Cape Verde hurricane, or Cabo Verde hurricane is an Atlantic hurricane that originates at low-latitude in the deep tropics from a tropical wave that has passed over or near the Cape Verde islands after exiting the coast of West Africa.

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Caribbean Sea

The Caribbean Sea (Mar Caribe; Mer des Caraïbes; Caraïbische Zee) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.

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Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston is the oldest and largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston–Summerville Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.

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Destroyer tender

A destroyer tender, or destroyer depot ship in British English, is an auxiliary ship designed to provide maintenance support to a flotilla of destroyers or other small warships.

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Dominica

Dominica (Island Carib), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island republic in the West Indies.

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Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic (República Dominicana) is a sovereign state located in the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region.

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East Coast of the United States

The East Coast of the United States is the coastline along which the Eastern United States meets the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Extratropical cyclone

Extratropical cyclones, sometimes called mid-latitude cyclones or wave cyclones, are low-pressure areas which, along with the anticyclones of high-pressure areas, drive the weather over much of the Earth.

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Faroe Islands

The Faroe Islands (Føroyar; Færøerne), sometimes called the Faeroe Islands, is an archipelago between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic, about halfway between Norway and Iceland, north-northwest of Scotland.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Florida Keys

The Florida Keys are a coral cay archipelago located off the southern coast of Florida, forming the southernmost portion of the continental United States.

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Florida Today

Florida Today is the major daily newspaper serving Brevard County, Florida.

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Fort Pierce, Florida

Fort Pierce is a city in and the county seat of St. Lucie County, Florida, United States.

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Fort Young Hotel

Fort Young Hotel is a hotel on the quayside of Roseau, Dominica, located in the southern part of the capital next to Garraway Hotel and Dominica Museum and Roseau Public Library, just south of the Governor's Residence and Roseau Cathedral.

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Fort-de-France

Fort-de-France is the capital of France's Caribbean overseas department of Martinique.

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Frigate

A frigate is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.

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Fujita scale

The Fujita scale (F-Scale), or Fujita–Pearson scale (FPP scale), is a scale for rating tornado intensity, based primarily on the damage tornadoes inflict on human-built structures and vegetation.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.

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Grande-Terre

Grande-Terre Island (île de Grande-Terre / île de la Grande-Terre) is the name of the eastern-half of Guadeloupe proper, in the Lesser Antilles.

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Greater Antilles

The Greater Antilles is a grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea: Cuba, Hispaniola (containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and the Cayman Islands.

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Guadeloupe

Guadeloupe (Antillean Creole: Gwadloup) is an insular region of France located in the Leeward Islands, part of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean.

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Haina Occidental Port

The Haina Occidental Port (often referred to as "Rio Haina") is located in the Haina River, Dominican Republic near Santo Domingo.

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Haiti

Haiti (Haïti; Ayiti), officially the Republic of Haiti and formerly called Hayti, is a sovereign state located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea.

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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

Hilton Head Island, sometimes referred to as simply Hilton Head, is a Lowcountry resort town and barrier island in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States.

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Hispaniola

Hispaniola (Spanish: La Española; Latin and French: Hispaniola; Haitian Creole: Ispayola; Taíno: Haiti) is an island in the Caribbean island group, the Greater Antilles.

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HMS Fife (D20)

HMS Fife was the first unit of the Batch 2 destroyers of the Royal Navy.

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Hurricane Danny (1985)

Hurricane Danny produced 13 significant (F2/EF2+) tornadoes in the Southern United States during August 1985, the most spawned by a tropical cyclone until Hurricane Ivan in 2004.

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Hurricane Inez

Hurricane Inez was a major hurricane that affected the Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida, and Mexico in 1966.

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Hurricane Irma

Hurricane Irma was an extremely powerful and catastrophic Cape Verde hurricane, the strongest observed in the Atlantic in terms of maximum sustained winds since Wilma, and the strongest storm on record to exist in the open Atlantic region.

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Hurricane Maria

Hurricane Maria is regarded as being the worst natural disaster on record to affect Dominica and Puerto Rico.

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Hurricane Matthew

Hurricane Matthew was the first Category 5 Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Felix in 2007, and also caused catastrophic damage and a humanitarian crisis in Haiti, as well as widespread devastation in the southeastern United States.

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Iceland

Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.

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Intracoastal Waterway

The Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) is a inland waterway along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts of the United States, running from Boston, Massachusetts, southward along the Atlantic Seaboard and around the southern tip of Florida, then following the Gulf Coast to Brownsville, Texas.

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Jai alai

Jai alai (Basque) is a sport involving a ball bounced off a walled space by accelerating it to high speeds with a hand-held device (cesta).

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Jarabacoa

Jarabacoa is a town and the second largest municipality in La Vega Province, Dominican Republic.

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Leeward Islands

The Leeward Islands are a group of islands situated where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean.

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Lesser Antilles

The Lesser Antilles are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea.

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List of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes

A total of 33 recorded tropical cyclones have reached Category 5 strength on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale in the Atlantic Ocean north of the equator, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico.

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Lists of Atlantic hurricanes

;Atlantic hurricanes.

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Marie-Galante

Marie-Galante is an island of the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea located south of Guadeloupe and north of Dominica.

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Martinique

Martinique is an insular region of France located in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of and a population of 385,551 inhabitants as of January 2013.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east.

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Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

Mayagüez is the eighth-largest municipality of Puerto Rico (U.S.). It was founded as Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria, and is also known as La Sultana del Oeste (The Sultaness of the West), Ciudad de las Aguas Puras (City of Pure Waters), or Ciudad del Mangó (City of the Mango).

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Mount Washington (New Hampshire)

Mount Washington, called Agiocochook by some Native American tribes, is the highest peak in the Northeastern United States at and the most prominent mountain east of the Mississippi River.

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National Hurricane Center

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is the division of the United States' National Weather Service responsible for tracking and predicting weather systems within the tropics between the Prime Meridian and the 140th meridian west poleward to the 30th parallel north in the northeast Pacific Ocean and the 31st parallel north in the northern Atlantic Ocean.

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Neil Frank

Neil Laverne Frank (born September 11, 1931) is an American meteorologist and former director of the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Florida.

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New Castle County, Delaware

New Castle County is the northernmost of the three counties of the U.S. state of Delaware.

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New England

New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

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New Hampshire

New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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New Smyrna Beach, Florida

New Smyrna Beach is a city in Volusia County, Florida, United States, located on the central east coast of the state, with the Atlantic Ocean to the east.

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Palm Beach County, Florida

Palm Beach County is a county in the state of Florida that is directly north of Broward County.

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Palm Beach, Florida

The Town of Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.

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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.

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Rapid intensification

Rapid intensification is a meteorological condition that occurs when a tropical cyclone intensifies dramatically in a short period of time.

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Roseau

Roseau (Dominican Creole: Wozo) is the capital and largest city of Dominica, with a population of 14,725 (as of 2011).

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Saffir–Simpson scale

The Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS), formerly the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale (SSHS), classifies hurricanesWestern Hemisphere tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities of tropical depressions and tropical stormsinto five categories distinguished by the intensities of their sustained winds.

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Saint Croix

Saint Croix is an island in the Caribbean Sea, and a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States.

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San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic

San Cristóbal is a municipality (municipio) and the capital of the San Cristóbal province in the Dominican Republic.

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Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo (meaning "Saint Dominic"), officially Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population.

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Savannah, Georgia

Savannah is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia and is the county seat of Chatham County.

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St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant

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The Bahamas

The Bahamas, known officially as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic state within the Lucayan Archipelago.

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The Maritimes

The Maritimes, also called the Maritime provinces (Provinces maritimes) or the Canadian Maritimes, is a region of Eastern Canada consisting of three provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island (PEI).

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Tornado

A tornado is a rapidly rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud.

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Tropical cyclone

A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain.

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Tropical cyclone scales

Tropical cyclones are officially ranked on one of five tropical cyclone intensity scales, according to their maximum sustained winds and which tropical cyclone basin(s) they are located in.

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United States Virgin Islands

The United States Virgin Islands (USVI; also called the American Virgin Islands), officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, is a group of islands in the Caribbean that is an insular area of the United States located east of Puerto Rico.

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Vero Beach, Florida

Vero Beach is a city in and the seat of Indian River County, Florida, United States.

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Virginia

Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Weather Prediction Center

The Weather Prediction Center (WPC), located in College Park, Maryland, is one of nine service centers under the umbrella of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), a part of the National Weather Service (NWS), which in turn is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the U.S. government.

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West Palm Beach, Florida

West Palm Beach is a city in and the county seat of Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.

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Windward Islands

The Windward Islands are the southern, generally larger islands of the Lesser Antilles, within the West Indies.

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Windward Passage

The Windward Passage (Passage du Vent; Paso de los Vientos) is a strait in the Caribbean Sea, between the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola.

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1930 Dominican Republic hurricane

The 1930 Dominican Republic Hurricane, also known as Hurricane San Zenon, is the fifth deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record.

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1966 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1966 Atlantic hurricane season featured the tropical cyclone with the longest track in the Atlantic basin – Hurricane Faith.

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1979 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1979 Atlantic hurricane season was the first season to include both male and female names, as well as the common six-year rotating lists of tropical cyclone names.

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1979 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1979.

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1985 Atlantic hurricane season

The 1985 Atlantic hurricane season had 6 U.S. landfalling hurricanes, which was the highest number in 99 years.

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Hurricane David (1979), Tropical Storm David.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_David

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