TROPICAL STORM -HURRICANE EARL IMPACTS HONDURAS, GUATEMALA, BELIZE, AND MEXICO AUGUST 5-9, 2016 lecture by Walter Hays Uploading date: August 08, 2016, Updated August 09, 2016 More lectures at Disasters Supercourse - http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/disasters/BADisasterSupercourse.htm PPT original - http://www.pitt.edu/~super7/54011-55001/54631.ppt URL: http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec54631/index.htm Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia, USA

SO FAR, EXCEPT FOR EARL, WHICH CASUED OVER 40 DEATHS IN MEXICO, AND COLIN, WHICH BROUGHT RAIN TO FLORIDA, THE ATLANTIC BASIN STORMS HAVE NOT BEEN NOTABLE

NAMED ATLANTIC BASIN STORMS IN 2016 ALEX - Tropical storm; January (rare) BONNIE - Tropical storm; May 27 COLIN – Tropical storm; June 6 Danielle – Tropical storm; June 20 EARL – Hurricane; August 6

TROPICAL STORM EARL

TROPICAL STORM EARL

TROPICAL STORM EARL

A DIMINSHED EARL WAS STILL A HUGH THREAT

Earl dumped very heavy rain- fall on the region, causing flooding and mudslides, killing six people in the Mexican townships of Coscomatepec and Tequila and at least 40 in Puebla State

COLLAPSED BRIDGE: GUATEMALA

The heavy rainfall from a diminished and dying Earl caused mudslides that led to 40 deaths in eastern Mexico’s Puebla State.

FLOODING AND MUDSLIDES KILL 40 IN EASTERN MEXICO

MUDSLIDES

MUDSLIDES: SEARCH AND RESCUE

TROPICAL STORM COLIN MADE LANDFALL IN FLORIDA ON JUNE 6 3rd NAMED STORM OF 2016 ATLANTIC BASIN HURRICANE SEASON

TROPICAL STORM COLIN’S PREDICTED PATH

EFFECTS OF COLIN BEFORE JUNE 6TH LANDFALL

“ENJOYMENT” BEFORE JUNE 6TH LANDFALL

TROPICAL STORM COLIN MADE LANDFALL: JUNE 6

TROPICAL STORM COLIN WAS A FAST MOVING STORM

TROPICAL STORM COLIN DID AS PREDICTED