20 The Bahamas is the most northerly CARICAD member state and suffered significant damage in 2019. (Photo by Fr. Bowe) Continued from previous page Further, in geographically large member states such as Guyana, Suriname and Belize the values will be different for different locations within the country. Note that The Bahamas is the most northerly CARICAD member state, Suriname is the most southerly, Barbados is the most easterly and Belize is the most westerly. In earlier years there was a tradition of identifying a ‘Hurricane Belt’ in the Atlantic Basin. It encompassed the northern part of the Caribbean Sea as well as the Gulf of Mexico. It also included Florida and the Florida Keys. There is now a disinclination to consider the Hurricane belt as having statistical certitude. It used to be said that Grenada was outside the Hurricane Belt but that kind thinking started to change when Grenada was devastated by a major hurricane — Ivan in 2004. It is worth remembering that in 1955 Hurricane Janet, a category 5 hurricane, caused widespread damage and several deaths in Barbados and the Grenadines that are often considered to be outside the zone of likeliest hurricane impact.
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