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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