Hurricane Andrew
Hurricanes are notoriously capricious. Andrew was a compact system. A little larger
system, or one making landfall just a few nautical miles further to the north, would have
been catastrophic for heavily populated, highly commercialized and no less vulnerable
areas to the north. That area includes downtown Miami, Miami Beach, Key Biscayne and
Fort Lauderdale. Andrew also left the highly vulnerable New Orleans region relatively
unscathed.
Andrew moved nearly due westward when over land and crossed the extreme
southern portion of the Florida peninsula in about four hours. Although the hurricane
weakened about one category on the during the transit over land, and the pressure rose to
about 950 mb, Andrew was still a major hurricane when its eyewall passed over the
extreme southwestern Florida coast. The first of two cycles of modest intensification
commenced when the eye reached the Gulf of Mexico. Also, the hurricane continued to
move at a relatively fast pace while its......
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