Paradise Zone - Bluefields ||- EVOLUTION -|| - Bluefields - A Little of our History

Bluefields History With Tropical Systems

(BR)= Brush

(TS)= Tropical Storm

(BD)= Back Door, meaning coming from over land from opposite coast. Not all names are noted, also storms before 1950 were not named. Not every stat on every storm description is given.

Years within 60 miles:

1906
1908 BR
1911 BR
1933 TS
1940 TS-BR
1945 TS-BR
1953 TS-BR
1971 TS-BR
1988
1993 TS-BR
1993 TS
1996

*12 times in 129 years end of 99

Names from list above:

Alice, Irene, Joan, Bret, Gert, Cesar.

How often this area gets affected?

Brushed or Hit every 10.75 Years

Statistically when this area should be affected next?

Statistically due before the end of the 2007 season.

Last affected by:

In 1996 Hurricane Cesar brushes just north with 80 MPH winds in late July, Pressure 29.21, 50 killed.

This areas hurricane past:

In 1906 a hurricane causes a 15 ft Tsunami (Tidal Wave) Pressure 28.57.
On September 19, 1971 Irene hits Nicaragua just south of Bluefields then moved into the Pacific.
In 1988 Hurricane Joan hits with 135 MPH winds, Pressure 27.46, It destroys the area.
In 1996 Hurricane Cesar with 80 MPH winds hits with a Pressure of 29.21, It dumps heavy rain, 50 killed.

**Source: Hurricane City

On October 21, 1988 Bluefields and areas of Nicaragua Caribbean Coast, was severely attacked by the winds of up to 321 K.P.H.

The city was completely devastated by the hurricane, leaving thousands of people homeless, without jobs, and the destruction of most of the machinery, services, and infrastructure of the city.

Hurricane Joan also destroyed more than 250 thousand hectares of forest, displaced the wild life, and decimated the fishing grounds; consequently, it affected the productivity and living conditions of the inhabitants.

Today the architecture of this city reflects their racial mixture and their colored past, British colonial mixture, cabins from the Antilles and plantations in the style of New Orleans.