How often do hurricanes that cause damage on AC happen?

Thanks,

Ken

Ask anyone who has survived one or waited to see where landfall would be and they'll probably say, "Too often." Every yearly season it's a new ballgame where it concerns hurricanes.

NOAA archives have a detailed history of Atlantic hurricanes on their site, where they formed, meandered and finally made landfall.

See the links in this subject: "Historical hurricane data for Ambergris Caye".
http://ambergriscaye.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/207843/page/2#Post207843

The last hurricane to hit AC was in 2000, but there has been collateral damage from high water caused by other more recent ones - Wilma did quite a lot of dock damage. The last hurricane before 2000 was only two years earlier, so currently it's looking good!

statistly hurricanes hit here every 20 yrs, That info dosnt mean much as anything can happen, we got 2 in a row 2000 & 2001, I moved here in 2001 and have seen the water level rise 3 times to do some beach and road damage, I evacuated only once and did not need to, we did not get anything, no wind or any bad weather. Historically hurricanes have usually hit here in Oct. The water temp warms up and their courses change.

Every 15 minutes, they are very predictable.

What was the 2001 hurricane? I only arrived late that year, after hurricane season was over, but I've never heard of it.

Iris

I thought the 2 that bit here in Belize were Mitch and Keith not Iris???????

iris hit southern Belize

I knew about Iris, but the question was specific about AC. In any case, wasn't Iris in 2002?

October 8, 2001. Cat 4. Devastated Placencia and parts pf Seine Bight and many Toledo Villages.

No storms on AC for 2001! Thank God for that!

Most of world didn't know about Hurricane Iris because they were still suffering the immediate affects of 9/11.

Kinda hard for anyone in the diving community not to have appreciated (for lack of a better word) the devastation wrought by Iris.

No mention of Belize or even Central America, let alone AC, but pundits are expecting a very bad hurricane season:- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml;jsessionid=K5BRMKID2F5KBQFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0?xml=/money/2007/05/24/cnhurricane24.xml

I seem to recall they predicted a bad year last year as well. I don't mean to advocate a lack of vigilance, but I wish forecasters would acknowledge their failures as well as their successes. All in all, be prepared and, in the meantime, you're in SP--be happy!!