Does anyone know any BAD hurricanes that happened in Barbados, because I am doing a paper on that country.?

Answer 1

Sure, the Great Hurricane on October 10, 1780. This was during a spell of really bad hurricanes in the Caribbean. Over 4,000 people died in Barbados alone.

Barbados rarely gets direct hits from hurricanes. The last one was Hurricane Allen in August, 1980, when the southern eyewall passed over north Barbados. There was roughly 6 million US dollars in damage, 28 boats were destroyed and another 92 were badly damaged.

Other direct hits were:

1831 - about 1500 people killed
1898 - hundreds killed (no official statistics)
1955 - Hurricane Janet - 35 people killed.

Near-misses:

Sept 1887
Oct 1895
Aug 1916
Sep 1963 (Hurricane Edith)
1979 (Hurricane David)
1995 (Hurricane Marilyn).

Precise records of Caribbean hurricanes were not kept prior to the late 1700s, although descriptions of them are contained within ships logs and have been handed down generationally. It appears there is some correalation between Caribbean hurricanes and fluctuations in the NAOC (Gulf Stream current). The time of the "Mini Ice Age" in Europe and the NE US (mid-1600s to late-1700s) was also a particularly active time for strong hurricanes in the Caribbean basin.

Hope this helps!