Department of Physics, University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico; University of Zululand, KwaDlangezwa, South Africa
Jury, M.R., Department of Physics, University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, University of Zululand, KwaDlangezwa, South Africa
This study considers tropical cyclones Irene in Puerto Rico from 2011 and Isaac in the Dominican Republic from 2012. Impacts trailed more than a day after the storm in both cases. Irene passed Puerto Rico on 22 August 2011, yet bands of heavy rainfall caused floods and disruption on 23 August. In the second case, Isaac passed Hispaniola on 24 August 2012, but stormy weather continued on 25 August. Onshore winds, 4-m waves, and associated tides and river outflow closed the harbor of Santo Domingo. Emergency managers and maritime operators should be aware of the delayed impacts of tropical cyclones in the Caribbean Sea region. © 2015 American Meteorological Society.
Hurricanes; Rain; Tropics; Caribbean Sea; Emergency response; Heavy rainfall; Onshore winds; Puerto Rico; River outflow; Subtropics; Tropical cyclone; Storms; climate effect; flooding; Hurricane Irene 2011; precipitation intensity; subtropical region; tropical cyclone; Atlantic Ocean; Caribbean Sea; Dominican Republic; Puerto Rico; Santo Domingo [Dominican Republic]