Today the Meteorological Service of the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba released some weather figures of last weekend. In the 6 hours that hurricane Felix was closest to Aruba it rained 0.9 inches (23.6 millimeters) The total rainfall between Saturday night and Sunday night was 1.6 inches (40 millimeters) The strongest wind gusts recorded were 37.3 [...]
As hurricane Felix is headed towards Central America and left Aruba behind, it raises the question on how common hurricanes are in this part of the Caribbean. Many advertise that Aruba is not in the hurricane zone, lets analyze this a bit. To get right to it, since 1995 there were 3 hurricanes within the [...]
Yesterday was exactly two years ago that Natural Bridge collapsed. On September 2nd, 2005, early morning, nature (erosion) put an end to the once mighty bridge. Another Natural Bridge
Riu Palace Aruba didn’t suffer any damage. Picture taken after the hurricane. No resort have reported any damage to its structures. Staff at the resorts on the Palm Beach strip sure had to do some mopping though.
JetBlue issues a travel alert for Aruba on Saturday, this regarding their two flight coming from New York’s JFK on Sunday. From the major airlines flying to Aruba JetBlue is the only one to issue a travel alert related to hurricane Felix thus far.
As hurricane Felix pushes away from Aruba it is headed for the warm open waters southern Caribbean, where it’s projected to gain much more force and is aiming the Central American countries of Nicaragua, Honduras and Belize. All warnings for Aruba have been discontinued meanwhile. Air travel is heavily disrupted by the earlier closure of [...]
Taken outside my window Sunday morning while hurricane Felix was passing north of Aruba Surfside Beach Sunday afternoon after hurricane Felix passed north of Aruba, with Renaissance Resort in the backdrop. Palm Beach Sunday afternoon after hurricane Felix. No damage. Sea at Eagle Beach Sunday afternoon is much choppier than normal because of the passing [...]
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