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Caribbean weather - Weather systems in the tropics

Learn more about tropical weather

• The Great Hurricane of 1780! by Dr. Colin Depranide, CIMH.

• The Hurricane of Matanzas of 1870, by Luis Enrique Ramos Guadalupe, Cuban Meteorological Society, Meteorological Bulletin 2/2000 of the Cuban Meteorological Society.

• Work of the Cuban Meteorological Service during the passage of Hurricane Lili (page 10 in the Bulletin 30-31 of the Subregional Office for North America, Central America and the Caribbean, pdf-file, 1.5MB)

• Hurricane strike! module of The MeTeD of the COMET project 

• Remote Sensing Using Satellites module (exploration of recent hurricanes through satellite imagery) of The MeTeD of the COMET project. 

• Community Hurricane Preparedness: NASA Learning Kit on Tropical Twisters: Hurricanes!

• Tropical weather and Hurricane in PhysicalGeography.net

• Tropical weather at Jetstream, an online weather school of the National Weather Service, USA.

• Online guide on hurricanes of the weather world 2010 project of University of Illinois, USA.

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