Originally Posted by
ronks
I have been tuning into the weather news for some years and have the northcoast on my list, since it always seems to get hit by hurricanes.
Ron
several years??
and in several years of observations and research you found out the dominican northcoast get's that often bashed by hurricanes and other areas of the country, too?
what a waste of time.
a 20 minutes search box use on any mayor meteorological webpage would have provided you with the facts and saved years of valuable lifetime.
with very few exceptions tropical disturbances like TD/TS/TW/Hurricanes move westwards and northwards and any combination of both directions.
then more north from the equator they run than bigger they can grow up.
very most systems near the dominican republic come from the east of the lesser Antilles.
with puerto rico straight on line there and the Mona Channel between us the very most of the few who approach the Channel get turned northwards to pass close or over Samana and towards the Bahamas/Florida etc, or they stay like the big ones so often on a straight western track when approaching the lesser antilles and wander straight into the caribbean sea, bouncing on their mostly occuring WNW turns Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, or reach Yucatan and enter the gulf of mexico.
what effects us here on the island once in a while is when a big powerful system passes by close, so we get sme nice windforces and a huge share of rain.
most of bother we receive anyways from smaller systems, the so named vaguadas, mostly no wind involved, very slow moving or even stationary for hours, so such is causing flooding and mudslides.
windforces i never saw as a problem in a good 14 years living on the east of the Isle. in the worst scenario some palmtrees fly and some electricity poles go down, such is back to normal within a couple days for most of the area, and such does not happen every couple years or such.
to the OP's years long research/observations,
didn;t those observations bring up the name Luperon Marina to ya??
a lil hint:
located on the dominican northshore that luperon marina is one of the well known hurricane holes in the caribbean.
Mike