Hurricane Melissa is a Category 5 monster of a hurricane. Our brothers and sisters in Jamaica are now beyond all human help. All we can do is watch on – and pray.
Maximum sustained winds of 185 mph. I do not think any buildings in Jamaica were designed to that level. They must now rely on mature trees and God for protection. Lord have mercy.
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This is about global warming. This must be the biggest of all time!
Words cannot explain.
Hurricane Melissa is a brutal reminder of what is possible.
IN THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY, WE SEE THE FRAGILITY OF HUMANITY UP AGAINST THE FORCES OF NATURE – SPARE A THOUGHT FOR THE MANIFESTATION OF DIVINE WRATH* & THE SOON APPEARING OF YESHUA MESSIAH – THE PRECIOUS ONE WE CALL JESUS THE CHRIST
Everything man throws up as “LOGIC” or “REASON” is just a “FART IN THE WIND”!!!
Yet folks “NEVER” learn anything – for it will be business as usual tomorrow…
Yes it t does, but we never seem to learn from situations caused by a Hurricane Melissa. Our level of humanity seems so ….
This time last year, WIFEY* & I were heading to Grenada to visit Carriacou to meet with “BRETHREN” to see what we could offer or make happen, but we were not prepared for the “DEVASTATION” before our very eyes on the hills & slopes of what is truly a “FAIRY-TALE ISLAND” of unsurpassed beauty!!!
JAMTOWN* is roughly 523 times larger in area than Carriacou, with a land mass of some 4,240 square miles – so, in the cold light of Wednesday morning, right through Thursday & into the “WEEKEND”, the true damage will be revealed (INCLUDING THE POTENTIAL COST IN THE BILLIONS)!!!
Hospital are “WRECKED”; homes flattened; CROCS* in the raging waters; fruit trees & every other kind of foliage “SHREDDED” & that’s merely the “TIP” of what is a “TITANIC ICEBERG”!!!
Within the stratospheric minefield of epistemological questions – some are asking: “WHY JAMAICA”???
What is the “UNDERLYING MESSAGE” here???
WHY ARE WE IN THIS AGE OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL COSMIC OCCURRENCES UNLIKE NO OTHER TIME IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY???
Questions few are even willing to grapple with – far less, have an intellectual discourse over given the lack of “SPIRITUAL BANDWIDTH”!!!
ANOTHER DAY ON PLANET EARTH – ANOTHER MONSTROUS TRAGEDY 4 TOO MANY
I WANT 2 PRAY BUT WORDS FAIL ME!!! I USUALLY JUMP UP & DOWN WITH GOD* OVER ALL KINDZ OF ISSUES, BUT LATELY, LIKE THE PROPHET ELIJAH, I SEEM 2 HAVE WITHDRAWN LIKE KING DAVID INTO THE CAVE @ ADULLAM!!!
All of God’s servants experience moments of “DESPAIR” at the monumental task of trying 2 warn “SOULS” of the “IMPENDING APOCALYPSE” that is before us – often 2 no avail!!!
Loss of life; properties in “RUINS”; lives shattered; health & wealth GONE*; disillusionment & despair RAMPANT* – yet, you know that there is something inherently wrong within the human psyche – for even “UTTER DESTRUCTION” & “MORBID DILAPIDATION” does not even “MOVE” the “DIAL” so much as a “JOT” or a “TITTLE” – on the radar screen of life!!!
The comforts is knowing that Scripture is the “EVER-PRESENT” reminder that as “MESSIAH” opined: “AS IT WAS IN THE DAYZ OF NOAH & THE DAYZ OF LOT” – so it will be just before the “COMING OF THE SON OF MAN”!!!
#WeAreHere
Time is spiralling towards a “CATEGORY 10 APOCALYPSE” where “EARTH WILL PASS AWAY” – “WHERE EVERY MOUNTAIN & ISLAND WILL SIMPLY VANISH INTO THE ETHER”!!!
Melissa, is just another reminder that “THE END BECKONS”, while men “CRY PEACE & SAFETY” & Alfred Nobel gives out prizes to “CHARLATANS, THIEVES & NASTY HUMAN BEINGS”!!!
#WhatAWorld
#WhatATimeWeLiveIn
Well I wonder the wisdom in the continued location of QEH and its expansion within the location of a river bead. As Cat 5 get a common occurrence with gust in excess of 200mph, moving slowly the possibility of storm surge innundating low lying areas like Oistins and Baystreet. Where is the wisdom by politicians who have access to the Treasury. I forget we can pray to mitigate ignorance that is now seen as a form happiness. Will the GOB provide EMTs with dinghies?
@Kammie
We listened to Ryan Straughn talking yesterday about learning from the Jamaica experience by building a more resilience Caribbean. What does he mean?
“….Some are asking: “WHY JAMAICA”???
What is the “UNDERLYING MESSAGE” here???”
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Bushie could ask the question for you if you wish…!!
@ David
What Ryan said if not even close to what his boss PROMISED after hurricane Dorian.
Politicians HAVE to say something when invited to be guest speakers.
This is their strength.
Actually successfully DOING what they have said, however, requires completely different skills…
…and our politicians do not even recognize this fact – far less have the required skills themselves.
“Well I wonder the wisdom in the continued location of QEH and its expansion within the location of a river bed”
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@ Kammie
You are not alone.
In fact, few must be those, who can see the wisdom in spending hundreds of millions at such a vulnerable location; at a time of climate uncertainties; and with such traffic congestion…
…And all this, after ARGUING exactly the same case for moving a fire station uphill.
What a place!!
The ACTUAL truth is very likely to be, that those funds will NEVER find their way to any completed hospital expansion. Instead, a start will be made, a few hundred thousand wasted, and the remainder of the funds used to repay a looming debt obligation.
Some other easily justified new ‘project’ (South Coast Sewage AGAIN?) will then be funded by the international money demons (whose ONLY real objective is to increase their loan portfolios) …and THOSE funds used to repay this debt…
It is how all Parros live…
Constantly borrowing from Peters to pay back Pauls….
Unfortunately the ‘sob-stories’ need to become increasingly convincing eact time…
So it is actually ‘useful’ that the QEH is in such a sad state, …and that the Sewage Systems have been an embarrassing failure…
The business of relocating the QEH was discussed here too many times. In fact there is one blog when the Don was motivated to post comments. We continue to make sport.
“They must now rely on mature trees”. Excellent observation from Grenville. Trees are natures way of offering a form of protection and deterrence to nature’s natural catastrophies. They offer thermal protection for our homes and our cities from overheating. It’s called natural shading. They act as natural windbreaks. In the case of Portugal for millennium the country grew cork trees. One day someone decided that it would make sense to grow non-indigenous eucalyptus and pine trees which offered fast profits. The result has been a disaster for Portugal. These trees are packed with natural oils. During the summer months they have experienced some of the worst forest fires in history over the last 10 years. They have lost vast quantities of woodlands and human lifes. Which tree do you think survived those fires of Infernos? Well it was the good old fashion cork tree.
Do some research on gulleys and the purpose they serve. Research why they should be preserved and managed. Whilst you are at it, investigate the significance of mangroves; corals, our beach lands and why they should never be encroached on.
Mother nature can be an absolute bitch.The only way to mitigate against her extremes are to ensure that we employ and uphold all that we have within our natural environment to minimise the scale of potential devastion to human life, human belongings and the built and natural environment.
It is clear to me that this government and all the previous governments have no understanding of any of the above. What a pity.
@TLSN
Inquiring minds want to know which tree can withstand a CAT 4 or 5 hurricane.
@ Bushman
“Bushie could ask the question for you if you wish…!!!
Please, Bruh…
WE HAVE A CATEGORY 5 SITUATION IN RIO, BRASIL – WAR ON THE STREETS & VENEZUELA NO WHERE IN SITE
Is everything goin’ 2 “HELL IN A PAN-CART” or is that “IDLE SPECULATION”???
#YouDecide
THE CARIBBEAN & LATIN AMERIKKKA IS UP SHYTE CREEK WITHOUT A PADDLE
@ Terence
Not good news…
It seems that Melissa portends a new normal for us all…
If you ever wondered what became of the traditional priesthood lineage of old, then look no further than Jamaica…
Review the personalities of that set of people – folks like Garvey and Marley, to Bolt, Luciano, Big Youth and the seemingly ENDLESS superhuman examples of power, speed, musical MESSAGES, and determination…
But like with all things Holy and sacred, the enemy always infiltrates with dirt, jobby, and warped sexual overtones… The Church, Love, Peace, Sex…..
Dance Hall took over the rhythmic power of reggae that Bob Marley used to preach to the WHOLE world…
Yellow man contaminated it with filth… and now dance hall has successfully masked the powerful medium that was used by later day prophets like Bushman, Luciano and countless others.
Charity begins at home… and so does house cleaning.
Melissa is just the start of a major ‘house cleaning’ – that will be unmatched by any other in all of history.
The underlying message…?
If MY OWN wayward prophets deserve such correction…
What is to be expected for those wicked, albino-centrics and their converts who have mocked the Creator and tormented their communities…?
There will be dread ina Babylon!!
Bushie should probably not have asked….
BTW @ Terance…
What do you think became of the lineage of the favored, second-youngest son of Jacob, to whom he gave the coat of many colors….?
Those Bible stories are a wealth of information for those with eyes to see…
Um too sweet!
Bushie
Always a two-dimentional Alice-in-Wonderland story of good and bad. This writer fails to reconcile these two-way narratives with the vast complexities of being.
And of course, they must have their genesis within the book purposefully written to make fools of men.
You’d be far better off if you simply dispense with the book and observed or read nature herself. Is this not what humanoids did long before the book?
@Bushman
“What do you think became of the lineage of the favored, second-youngest son of Jacob, to whom he gave the coat of many colors….?”
IF EVER THERE WAS A TIME FOR LEADERSHIP THAT RESEMBLES THAT OF PRINCE JOSEPH – THAT TIME IS NOW!!!
#The3rdHorsemanRides
Rev 6:6 declares: “And I heard what sounded like a voice from among the [4] living creatures, saying, ‘A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine’…”
#BiblicalExegesis is an ominous signal of what’s unfolding before our very eyes…
“A MEASURE OF MEAL”, (your miniscule shop), specifically was a “CHOINIX” (SOMETIMES SPELLED – ‘CHOENIX’), was a dry measure (TYPICALLY CORN-MEAL OR WHEAT), was equivalent to approximately [1] quart or 1.1 litres, typical of a man’s daily ration of grain in ancient times!!!
The “DENARIUS” was a Roman silver coin that served as a day’s wage for a common laborer or soldier!!!
The words contained within the “3RD SEAL” – “A MEASURE OF MEAL FOR A DENARIUS” indicates that a day’s wages were required to purchase just enough wheat or corn 4 one day’s sustenance – highlighting extreme scarcity & economic hardship!!!
WELCOME 2 THE YEAR 2025 ACCORDING 2 POPE GREGORY
#WhatAWorld
@TSLN, it’s shockingly amazing that the political party which speaks the most about climate change destroys the most green areas and does the most jetsetting. The denuding of the Belle stretch defies logic especially an area of the main water source. Again, are the professionals in government afraid of men and women who are ministers and reluctant to put them in their place ? Don’t they fart, stool, have morning breath and die the the same as other humans? Politicians are responsible for 95% off the world’s problems by the social and economic policies they impose. Jim Jones seems to be alive all over the world. Political parties in Barbados are companies with preferential shareholders and ordinary shareholders with voters the employees.
Very perceptive as usual @ Terence.
Sent of into slavery by his OWN brothers, he rose to blessed prominence in captivity and eventually engineered the capacity for those very brothers to survive a brutal famine…
@ Pacha
LOL
Drink some water and tek it eazy!!
That was meant for Terence, and should have been in BU [square brackets..]
…Apologies Boss!!
DRONE FOOTAGE OF THE AFTERMATH OF MELISSA
#SMDH
Well I see the USA Disaster Relief Team arrived in Jamaica today. Wonder when the Russian and Chinese Reielf ones will land.
@John A
The Jamaica government will not do anything to compromise the relationship with Trump administration.
@ David
Wasn’t the PM of Jamican one that opposed his partnership with Kamla? Sure I saw his picture with Mia and the others. Might be wrong as old age catching up.
Storms and hurricanes are nothing new to the Caribbean. Every year we struggle with these weather phenomena.
Regardless of the number of times that we suffer, regardless of the number of plans put in place we go through the same cycle year after year.. storm, damage, lofty talk, asking for help, a semi recovery, and then waiting again till next year.
The new normal will tax us even more; talking and wishing may not be enough to get us through to the next year
When the storm comes
Hurricane Melissa exposes brutal reality facing SIDS
by PROFESSOR JUSTIN ROBINSON THE MATHEMATICS OF CATASTROPHE are written in wind speed, barometric pressure and the shattered lives left behind. When Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica and neighbouring Caribbean islands as a savage Category 5 storm, it didn’t just demolish homes and infrastructure – it laid bare the brutal calculus that small island developing states (SIDS) face in an era of climate chaos.
In the storm’s wake, Minister of Finance Fayval Williams faced a different kind of emergency: Would Jamaica’s innovative $150 million catastrophe bond trigger? Would the parametric model – designed to release funds automatically based on storm metrics – recognise what Jamaicans already knew with terrifying certainty: this was disaster on a biblical scale?
The answer exposes a troubling paradox at the heart of climate finance innovation. Even as SIDS embrace cutting-edge financial instruments to protect themselves from climate catastrophe, they remain trapped in a system that was never designed for their survival.
The high-stakes gamble of innovation – catastrophe bonds, or cat bonds – represent financial engineering at its most sophisticated. Investors purchase bonds that pay attractive returns unless a specific disaster strikes. When it does, investors lose their principal and those funds flow immediately to the afflicted government. It’s insurance meets Wall Street, a mechanism to transfer climate risk from vulnerable island nations to global capital markets.
Jamaica pioneered this approach in the Caribbean, becoming the first to independently issue a sovereign catastrophe bond in 2021. The 2024 bond uses a “cat-in-a-grid” parametric trigger – a model that calculates payouts based on measurable storm characteristics rather than assessed damage. In theory, this means money flows within weeks, not months or years. In theory!
When Hurricane Beryl struck last year, causing extensive damage across Jamaica, the bond didn’t trigger. The storm’s technical parameters – its wind speed at specific grid points, its central pressure – fell just short of the model’s thresholds. Communities were devastated. Fishermen lost their boats. Farmers lost entire harvests. Yet the financial instrument designed to protect them remained dormant, its $150 million locked away because the mathematics of disaster didn’t align with its reality.
This is what experts call “basis risk” – the gap between the trigger and actual loss. It’s a technical term for a human tragedy: the bond may not pay when you need it.
The climate arithmetic that doesn’t add up
To understand the stakes, consider the numbers. SIDS contribute less than one per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, yet they face disproportionate climate impacts that can erase 100 per cent of their gross domestic product (GDP) in a single storm. Hurricane Maria cost Dominica 226 per cent of its GDP in 2017. Hurricane Dorian inflicted $3.4 billion in damages on The Bahamas – a quarter of its entire economy – in 2019.
These aren’t just statistics. They represent schools that won’t be rebuilt, hospitals that remain shuttered, a generation of students whose education was interrupted by storms they did nothing to cause. They represent debt upon debt, as nations borrow to recover from one disaster before the next one strikes.
Caribbean nations are caught in what economists call a “debt-disaster trap”. Climate change drives more frequent and severe storms. Storms require emergency borrowing. Higher debt reduces credit ratings. Lower ratings mean more expensive borrowing. More expensive borrowing leaves less for climate adaptation. Inadequate adaptation leads to worse storm damage. And the cycle continues, a fiscal death spiral spinning faster with each passing hurricane season.
This is why innovative financing matters. The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility, established in 2007, has made rapid payouts to member countries following qualifying events. Parametric insurance, contingency funds, debtfor- climate swaps, blue bonds – these instruments represent the region’s desperate attempt to build financial resilience in a fundamentally unjust global system.
The innovation trap
But here’s the uncomfortable truth: no amount of financial innovation can substitute for climate justice. Catastrophe bonds and parametric insurance are adaptive responses to a crisis that demands mitigation. They help countries respond to disasters, but they do nothing to prevent the disasters from intensifying year after year. Jamaica’s $150 million bond sounds impressive until you realise Hurricane Melissa’s damage estimates are already approaching $2 billion. Even if the bond triggers, it covers perhaps seven to eight per cent of recovery costs.
The Bahamas would need catastrophe bonds worth $13 billion to fully insure against another Hurricane Dorian. For islands with populations under 400 000 and GDPs measured in singledigit billions, such coverage is mathematically impossible. Moreover, these instruments come with costs. Catastrophe bonds carry high coupon rates – investors demand premium returns for taking on disaster risk. Parametric insurance has basis risk built into its DNA.
The Risk Insurance Facility, while valuable, has faced criticism for complex payout structures that sometimes leave nations under-compensated. There’s also a darker concern: Does the existence of these financial instruments allow wealthy nations to avoid their moral obligations? If Caribbean countries can “innovate” their way to resilience through catastrophe bonds and insurance schemes, does that let major emitters off the hook for the climate destruction they’ve caused?
What justice looks like
Real climate justice for SIDS requires action on multiple fronts – simultaneously, urgently and at scale.
First, loss and damage financing. The historic agreement at COP27 to establish a loss and damage fund was a breakthrough. But as Hurricane Melissa demonstrates, the need is immediate. The fund must be capitalised quickly, generously and with streamlined access mechanisms. Island nations shouldn’t have to prove their suffering through complex application processes while their citizens lack clean water and shelter.
Second, debt relief. The international financial system must recognise that climate-vulnerable nations cannot simultaneously service debt and build resilience. Automatic debt payment suspensions following disasters – ideally coupled with debt cancellation for climaterelated losses – would provide immediate fiscal space. The Bridgetown Initiative, championed by Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley, offers a comprehensive framework for reforming international financial architecture to address climate vulnerability.
Third, grant-based adaptation funding. Loans for climate adaptation compound the debt-disaster trap. Adaptation finance must flow as grants, not loans. SIDS need funding for climate-resilient infrastructure, renewable energy transitions, mangrove restoration, coral reef protection and early warning system – all without accumulating more debt for disasters they didn’t cause.
Fourth, emissions cuts that matter. Every tonne of carbon dioxide emitted today increases the intensity of tomorrow’s hurricanes. Major emitters – particularly wealthy nations and fossil fuel companies that have profited from climate destruction – must commit to immediate, drastic emissions reductions aligned with keeping warming below 1.5°C. Anything less is a sentence of extinction for island nations.
Fifth, recognition of climate migration. As some islands become uninhabitable, the international community must establish legal frameworks and pathways for climate migrants with dignity – not as refugees fleeing disaster, but as communities displaced by a global crisis they did not create.
The Melissa moment
Across Jamaica, as emergency responders continue their work and engineers assess infrastructure damage, Finance Minister Williams monitors the parametric data that will determine whether Jamaica’s catastrophe bond pays out. If it triggers, it will mark the first successful activation of the nation’s innovative financial safety net – proof that at least one tool in the climate resilience tool kit works as designed. But even in success, the question remains: Is this enough?
Hurricane Melissa is not an anomaly. It is a preview. Climate models project that by 2050, storms of Category 4 and 5 intensity will become more common in the Caribbean. Sea levels will continue rising. Ocean temperatures will keep climbing. The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season has already seen multiple record-breaking storms and meteorologists expect this trend to intensify.
SIDS offer lessons for the entire world. Their creativity and determination in the face of existential threat deserve recognition and respect. But they should not have to innovate their way to survival. The burden of climate change should rest on those who caused it, not on those enduring its worst consequences.
As Jamaica assesses the damage from Hurricane Melissa, as other Caribbean nations brace for the next storm in what promises to be a relentless season, as parametric models calculate payouts and insurance adjusters fly in from abroad, one truth stands unshakeable: the world can engineer financial products that span continents and transfer risk across global capital markets. But it cannot – or will not – engineer away the existential threat facing island nations. That requires a different kind of innovation: political courage, moral clarity and a commitment to justice that matches the scale of the crisis.
The catastrophe bond is clever. Climate justice is essential. SIDS need both. The question is whether the global community will deliver before the next Category 5 storm writes its own brutal arithmetic across the Caribbean. The clock is ticking. The barometric pressure is dropping. And somewhere in the Atlantic, the next storm is already forming.
Professor Justin Robinson is pro-vice chancellor and principal of the University of the West Indies Five Islands Campus.
Source: Nation
Melissa’s damage estimated at approximately US$6 billion
KINGSTON – The preliminary estimate of the damage caused by Hurricane Melissa, which slammed into south-western Jamaica last week Tuesday with cataclysmic effect, has been put at between US$6 billion and US$7 billion.
This has ripped out a significant 32 per cent of Jamaica’s gross domestic product (GDP) for fiscal year 2024/2025, according to Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness.
He gave the preliminary estimate of the damage Tuesday during a ministerial statement in the House of Representatives in which he outlined the extent of the destruction brought by Melissa and what is expected to be a long road to recovery.
The Prime Minister emphasised that detailed damage assessments are still underway and that he was sharing the “very preliminary, highlevel estimates only to illustrate the scale of the devastation”.
Early dollar figure
He said the early dollar figure arrived at is based on benchmarks from comparable regional disasters; physical damage to housing, commercial buildings; roads, electricity, water, and telecommunications infrastructure.
According to the Prime Minister, Hurricane Melissa was not only a national tragedy, it was a warning.
“The storm’s 13-foot surge on our western coastline and up to 30 inches of rain in the central highlands revealed devastating power of a new climate reality. The era of a once-in-a-generation hurricane is over,” he said. (Jamaica Observer)
“According to the Prime Minister, Hurricane Melissa was not only a national tragedy, it was a warning.”
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These Caribbean PMs are funny as Hell.
A WARNING??!! …Warning? …
Warning shiite!!
It is the consequence of decades of IGNORED warnings.
Not only via uncontrolled environmental wutlessness in pursuit of shiite dollars…
… but ALSO in ignoring long term planning, in favor of short term POLITICAL (and VERY often PERSONAL) objectives.
Where are the long term RESILIENCE plans for Jamaica / Barbados? …apart from reactive promises of free $$$ after the disaster?
These PMs can be relied on to give inspiring speeches, and even shed crocodile tears when the people suffer the consequences of their BAD decisions. Indeed they RELISH such disasters as Mellisa, Gilbert, Covid and Beryl ,on which they can blame the poor results of their stewardship.
Mellisa is no warning.
It is a consequence, and a new reality, …that has resulted from decades of idiotic mis-leadership by inept, visionless leaders – who are much more concerned about personal power, materialism and prestige, …than they are about the overall, long-term welfare and well-being of the brass bowls who trust them with the critical role of leadership.
Knowing Karma….Barbados can expect our own turn to come… unless, like Ninevah, we make a drastic and urgent reversal in our own brassbowlery and idiocy….
What a region!!
@ BUSHMAN
“It is the consequence of decades of IGNORED warnings…”
NO TRUER WORDS WERE EVER SPOKEN!!!
Willie D pontificates.
https://nationnews.com/2025/11/06/duguid-region-needs-the-best-infrastructure/
@Terrence Blackett October 29th at 5:27 AM “Within the stratospheric minefield of epistemological questions – some are asking: “WHY JAMAICA”? What is the “UNDERLYING MESSAGE” here?”
WHY ARE WE IN THIS AGE OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL COSMIC OCCURRENCES UNLIKE NO OTHER TIME IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY???
Why not Jamaica?
No spiritual message, except that we have all demanded more and more and more and maybe earth is reaching its limit.
Category 5 hurricanes:
One named Cuba October1924
Okeechobee hurricane of September 1928
Abaco, September 1932
Camagüey, November 1932
Cuba/Brownsville, August 1933
Tampico, September 1933
Labour Day, September 1933
New England, September 1935
Great Atlantic, September 1944
Carol, September 1953
Janet, September 1955
Esther, September 1961
Hattie, October 1961
Inez, September 1966
Beulah, September 1967
Camille, August 1969
Edith, September 1971
Anita, September 1977
David, August 1979
Allen, August 1980
Gilbert, August 1988
Hugo, September 1989
Andrew, August 1992
Mitch, August 1998
Isabel, September 2003
Ivan, September 2004
Emily, June 2005
Katrina, August 2005
Rita, September 2005
Wilma, October 2005
Dean, August 2007
Felix, September 2007
Matthew, October 2016
Irma, September 2017
Maria, September 2017
Michael, October 2018
Dorian September 2019
Lorenzo, September 2019
Ian, September 2022
Lee, September 2023
Beryl, July 2024
Milton, October 2024
Erin, August 2025
Humberto, September 2025
Melissa, October 2025
Four category 5’s in 2005
Three category 5’s [so far] in 2025
During this period there were forty-five category 5 hurricanes:
Two in July, Emily July 16, 2005 and Beryl July 2, 2024
Eight in August
Twenty-six in September
Eight in October
One on November 5 to 8, 1932
Cuba.
Before the next cat 3 hurricane come…..
Jamaica.
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