Pages in category "Hurricane Irene" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

Hurricane Irene Pounds Caribbean Honeymooners Jennifer and Todd Napier spent Tuesday at the airport booking flights and looking for hotels on their laptop. Hurricane Irene, peaking as a Category 3 hurricane, battered Carribean Islands and U.S. states all along the eastern seaboard from South Carolina to Maine on August 21-29, 2011. Hurricane Irene made landfall near Cape Lookout, North Carolina, just before 8 a.m. EDT as an 85 mile per hour, category 1 hurricane. "We tried to book a flight yesterday. Irene is still a category 1 hurricane … It moved west-northwestward, and within an environment of light wind shear and warm waters. The Effects of Hurricane Irene in New York were the worst from a hurricane since Hurricane Agnes in 1972. Hurricane Irene formed from a tropical wave on August 21, 2011 in the tropical Atlantic Ocean. (CNN)-- The first Atlantic hurricane of 2011 strengthened to a Category 2 late Monday as it stormed through the Caribbean, churning just north of the Dominican Republic.