Tropical Storm Bret was the second named storm of the 1993 Atlantic hurricane season. The third tropical cyclone of the season, Bret formed on August 4 from a westward moving, African tropical wave. Bret would later peak as a 60 mph (95 km/h) tropical storm as it neared Trinidad. Tropical Storm Bret took an extremely southerly course through the Caribbean, passing over the north coasts of Colombia and Venezuela. High terrain in the northern porti...
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Tropical Storm Bret was the second named storm of the 1993 Atlantic hurricane season. The third tropical cyclone of the season, Bret formed on August 4 from a westward moving, African tropical wave. Bret would later peak as a 60 mph (95 km/h) tropical storm as it neared Trinidad. Tropical Storm Bret took an extremely southerly course through the Caribbean, passing over the north coasts of Colombia and Venezuela. High terrain in the northern portions of those countries severely disrupted the circulation of Tropical Storm Bret. Bret had weakened to a tropical depression but re-strengthened to a tropical storm before it made landfall in Nicaragua on August 10. Tropical Storm Bret again weakened over Central America, though it reached the Pacific Ocean and ultimately became Hurricane Greg.
Though Bret was only a tropical storm, it caused heavy damage and nearly 200 deaths as it moved through the southern Caribbean Sea during August of the 1993 Atlantic hurricane season. Bret was the...
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