David was a Cape Verde Hurricane that moved around the periphery of the subtropical ridge. The system moved off the coast of Africa on the 22nd of August, becoming a tropical depression southwest of the Cape Verde Islands on the 25th and a tropical storm on the 26th midway between the Cape Verdes and the Lesser Antilles. On the 27th, David intensified into a hurricane. By the 29th, David strengthened into a category 3 hurricane which moved across Dominica, becoming the most intense hurricane to strike the island so far in the 20th century. Moving west-northwest through the Caribbean, the eye of David passed 70 miles south of Puerto Rico causing rainfall amounts up to 21 inches. By the afternoon of the 30th, David had become a category 5 hurricane south of Puerto Rico. Heavy rains overspread St. Croix and Puerto Rico as David moved by to the south. The rainfall graphics below use data supplied by the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, NC.

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On the morning of August 3, a ship moved to the south of the cyclone, reporting strong westerly winds a few hundred miles east-southeast of Barbados. An additional ship sailed near the cyclone’s center, reporting a pressure of 996 hPa, indicating the presence of a tropical storm. The next day, reconnaissance found the eye of Connie tilted northeast, with the center redeveloping in that direction. The storm moved west-northwest near 15 mph and intensified rapidly, assing within 150 miles of the northern Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico.Below is the rainfall graphic for Puerto Rico, using data provided by the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina.

On the 6th and 7th, Connie coupled with a cold low aloft before its core rewarmed. By the 7th and 8th,Connie had become a major hurricane as it moved a few hundred miles east of the Bahamas. The system slowed down its west-northwest motion and weakened thereafter. From the 10th through the 12th, Connie moved north to northeast as it passed inland near Morehead City, North Carolina. Connie moved slowly through the Mid-Atlantic, New England, and the Great Lakes which set the stage for heavy rainfall from Virginia northward into western New England. The rainfall maps below for Hurricane Connie were constructed using rainfall data from the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina.

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