Why hurricanes rarely kill in Cuba

By Gustav Cederlöf, Associate Professor of Environmental Social Science, University of Gothenburg
Sophie Blackburn, Lecturer in human geography, University of Reading

Hours before Hurricane Melissa roared towards Cuba’s second-largest city, Santiago de Cuba, the island’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, announced that 735,000 people had been evacuated – one in every 15 Cubans. The storm had already smashed into Jamaica, the most powerful to ever strike the island, causing landslides, power failures and deaths.

By the time Melissa hit Cuba, it was downgraded from a category 5 to a still incredibly dangerous category 3…

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