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Why Bermuda is unusually resilient to hurricanes
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8/14/2024
Despite hundreds of tropical storms passing close to the island, a decision made 300 years ago has made the island unusually resilient to hurricanes.
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Beautiful Bermuda situated in Hurricane Alley, the most frequent path taken by
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Atlantic hurricanes. So you would think Bermuda gets slammed every hurricane
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season. Well think again because on average Bermuda experiences as only one
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damaging tropical cyclone every six or seven years with most of the activity
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at higher likelihood with landfall falling into September and October. Part
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of the reason while the high-pressure zone east of Bermuda in the summer it
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can deflect storm systems to the north and when the Bermuda high is strong and
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extends westward it can also force hurricanes to move around it. Since 1850
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130 tropical storms or hurricanes have come within a hundred miles of the
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island but only eleven have made landfall. In October of 2014 it was
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Hurricanes Fay and Gonzalo both making landfall which made that season the
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first to produce two landfalls. Now when storms do make landfall into Bermuda the
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islands hold up pretty well thanks to its coral reefs but also some of those
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well-built structures and it was after the storm of 1712 that destroyed most of
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the wooden structures the decision was made to build with stone. Now hurricane
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deaths pretty uncommon it was 129 people that died in Bermuda due to the storms.
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110 of them were results of shipwrecks along the South Shore in 1926 and four
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people died in 2003's hurricane Fabian the only tropical storm to cause a death
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in Bermuda since 1947. Now all of this being said there is a risk to lives and
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property in Bermuda from Ernesto as we head into Friday and Saturday some of
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those big impacts on the accurate the real impact scale for hurricanes this is
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a three in Bermuda you can see that scale of less than one to five and again
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a three from Ernesto.
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