Event Briefing - Tropical Cyclone Matthew | Event Briefing, 4 October 2010 - Tropical Cyclone Matthew formed on 23 September 2010 and was the fifteenth tropical cyclone and thirteenth named storm of the 2010 Tropical Atlantic Hurricane Season. At its maximum intensity in the southwestern Caribbean Sea, Matthew was associated with 60 mph winds and a sea-level pressure of 998 mbar. |
Event Briefing - Tropical Cyclone Igor | Event Briefing, 21 September 2010 - Tropical Cyclone Igor began as a classic Cape Verde-type system, emerging off the coast of West Africa on 6 September as a large area of low pressure. The system quickly organised into a Tropical Depression on 8 September, strengthening to a Tropical Storm on 10 September and becoming a Hurricane the following day. |
Event Briefing - Tropical Cyclone Fiona | Event Briefing, 7 September 2010 - Fiona began as an area of unstable weather off the coast of Africa during the 4th week of August. She eventually became a Tropical Storm on 30 August but struggled to develop any further as a result of the high wind shear associated with Tropical Cyclone Earl, which was moving north ahead of Fiona. |
Event Briefing - Tropical Cyclone Danielle | Event Briefing, 31 August 2010 - Tropical Cyclone Danielle started life as Tropical Depression Six on 21 August in the mid-Tropical Atlantic, becoming a Tropical Storm the following day and a Hurricane the day after that. |
Event Briefing - Tropical Cyclone Earl | Event Briefing, 31 August 2010 - Tropical Cyclone Earl emerged off the African coast as an area of low pressure on 22 August 2010. It became Tropical Depression Seven and then Tropical Storm Earl on 25 August before intensifying into a hurricane on 29 August. |
Event Briefing - Tropical Storm/Hurricane Alex | Event Briefing, 9 July 2010 - Tropical Storm, later Hurricane Alex, the first named system of the 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season, made its first landfall at Belize City, Belize at around midnight GMT on 27 June having meandered across the Caribbean Sea. |
Event Briefing - Haiti Aftershocks & Cayman Islands Earthquake | Event Briefing, 21 January 2010 - Haiti continues to be affected by aftershocks in the aftermath of the Magnitude 7.0 event which rocked the country on 12 January 2010. On Tuesday 19 January 2010, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck the Cayman Islands region at 14:23:38 UTC (local time is -5 hrs.) |
Event Briefing - Haiti Earthquake | Event Briefing, 14 January 2010 - A major earthquake struck the southern part of Haiti in the late afternoon of 12 January 2010. The current United States Geological Survey (USGS) estimate is that the quake was a Magnitude 7.0 event |
Event Briefing - Hurricane Bill | Event Briefing, 28 August 2009 - Hurricane Bill was the 2nd named system and first hurricane of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season. |
Event Briefing - Hurricane Ike | Event Briefing, 9 September 2008 - Ike became the 9th named system of the 2008 hurricane season and the third system in as many weeks to be a reportable event for CCRIF. |