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Sixty seconds on . . . Hurricane Maria

Ingrid Torjesen

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Last year’s Hurricane Maria was the worst natural disaster to ever affect Puerto Rico. The tropical cyclone made landfall on 20 September 2017, compounding the destruction caused by Hurricane Irma two weeks earlier. An estimated $90bn (£67bn; €77bn), making it the third costliest tropical cyclone in the US and its territories since 1900. It damaged roads …

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Last year’s Hurricane Maria was the worst natural disaster to ever affect Puerto Rico. The tropical cyclone made landfall on 20 September 2017, compounding the destruction caused by Hurricane Irma two weeks earlier. An estimated $90bn (£67bn; €77bn), making it the third costliest tropical cyclone in the US and its territories since 1900. It damaged roads …

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Last year’s Hurricane Maria was the worst natural disaster to ever affect Puerto Rico. The tropical cyclone made landfall on 20 September 2017, compounding the destruction caused by Hurricane Irma two weeks earlier. An estimated $90bn (£67bn; €77bn), making it the third costliest tropical cyclone in the US and its territories since 1900. It damaged roads …

Key concepts: Landfall, Tropical cyclone, Natural disaster, Atlantic hurricane, Cyclone (programming language), Climatology, Meteorology, Typhoon

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