manzanillo,Cuba's history with tropical systems
Current weather
(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
1873ts,1875,1876bdts,1878br,1880,1886,1887ts,1891ts,1894,1900ts,1901ts
1904tsbr,1924tsbr,1927ts,1928tsbr,1930tsbr,1933br,1934ts,1935br,1939tsbr,1942tsbr
1950br,1955ts,1958,1963,1964,1966,1975ts,1981tsbr,2005,2007bdtsbr,
31 times in 137yrs end of 2007


Names from list above
king,Hilda,Ella,Flora,cleo,Inez,Eloise,Arlene ,Dennis,

How often this area gets affected?
brushed or hit every 4.42 years

Average years between direct hurricane hits.(usually within 40 miles to include small hurricanes)
(9h)once every 15.22 years

Statistically when this area should be affected next
affected in 2007

Last affected by
2007,Oct 30th Tropical storm Noel passes 40 miles to the north while moving west with 45mph winds.

This areas hurricane past
1873 cane doengraded to ts kills 26 in Cubs
1875 sept 13th 105mph from the SE approx 160 killed in Cuba passed just South of here
1887 In December a tropical storm hits with 40mph winds
1932 in november a hurricane kills 2,500 from large storm surge near santa del cruz just west of here. Hit Nov 9th with 130mph winds from the south Monument
1963 hurricane Flora hits with 120mph winds wipes out sugar crop kills 1,000 .Newspaper article
1964 Hurricane Cleo psses just south of here with 80mph winds.Hurricane hunter aircraft reports heavy damage to wings.
2005 July 8th,hurricane Dennis hits while moving NW passing just south with 130mph winds.President Fidel Castro said 10 people, including an 18-day-old baby and 95-year-old man, were killed in the provinces of Granma and Santiago after Dennis raked Cuba's south coast on Thursday. Cuban officials said about 6,000 homes had been damaged or destroyed by the storm in the province of Granma where 24-foot storm surges were reported. Just to the south in Cabo Cruz instruments measured sustained winds of 133mph gusts to 148mph 956mb.

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