The Caribbean is an attractive place to flee, especially for those who’re looking for sunshine and heat.
Yet taking a jaunt there throughout the heart of hurricane season is at all times a little bit of a risk that a significant storm could crash your vacation plans. Some islands have fared higher at dodging tropical systems than others.
The FOX Forecast Center has found six islands which have turn out to be a “hurricane haven” within the last 170-plus years and have been a protected bet for vacation seekers.
“After all, every island within the Caribbean can see hurricanes,” FOX Weather Meteorologist Michael Estime said. “Nevertheless, there’s a few islands which are south of what we call the ‘hurricane belt’ that aren’t as liable to seeing tropical disturbances, and hurricanes and tropical systems.”
For Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao – sometimes colloquially generally known as the “ABC Islands” – it’s been greater than a century for the reason that islands have felt major hurricane impacts.
While eight hurricanes have passed inside 100 miles of the islands since 1851, not one of the islands have ever recorded a direct landfall. The last time any hurricane caused impacts was over 130 years ago.
The twin island chain of Trinidad and Tobago has also had fortuitous luck in dodging hurricanes. Again, only eight have passed near the islands and the one recorded hurricane landfall was from an unnamed storm in 1933.
Nevertheless, the island did feel some impacts from Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and Hurricane Emily in 2005.
San Andrés, a small island near Nicaragua, hasn’t fared quite in addition to the previous five islands, but still rates within the rare category for experiencing hurricane impacts.
The FOX Forecast Center has found only two hurricanes have made landfall of their records, plus Tropical Storm Julia in 2022. Only 13 hurricanes have passed near the island, most recently was Hurricane Iota in 2020.
The Caribbean is an attractive place to flee, especially for those who’re looking for sunshine and heat.
Yet taking a jaunt there throughout the heart of hurricane season is at all times a little bit of a risk that a significant storm could crash your vacation plans. Some islands have fared higher at dodging tropical systems than others.
The FOX Forecast Center has found six islands which have turn out to be a “hurricane haven” within the last 170-plus years and have been a protected bet for vacation seekers.
“After all, every island within the Caribbean can see hurricanes,” FOX Weather Meteorologist Michael Estime said. “Nevertheless, there’s a few islands which are south of what we call the ‘hurricane belt’ that aren’t as liable to seeing tropical disturbances, and hurricanes and tropical systems.”
For Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao – sometimes colloquially generally known as the “ABC Islands” – it’s been greater than a century for the reason that islands have felt major hurricane impacts.
While eight hurricanes have passed inside 100 miles of the islands since 1851, not one of the islands have ever recorded a direct landfall. The last time any hurricane caused impacts was over 130 years ago.
The twin island chain of Trinidad and Tobago has also had fortuitous luck in dodging hurricanes. Again, only eight have passed near the islands and the one recorded hurricane landfall was from an unnamed storm in 1933.
Nevertheless, the island did feel some impacts from Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and Hurricane Emily in 2005.
San Andrés, a small island near Nicaragua, hasn’t fared quite in addition to the previous five islands, but still rates within the rare category for experiencing hurricane impacts.
The FOX Forecast Center has found only two hurricanes have made landfall of their records, plus Tropical Storm Julia in 2022. Only 13 hurricanes have passed near the island, most recently was Hurricane Iota in 2020.
