The reason it could be the worst hurricane season for more than 200 years
As if we needed more on our plate, it looks like 2020 will be a historically bad hurricane season.
As if we neededFollowing on our collective plates right now, there is evidence that 2020 can bring theworst hurricane season In recent history. Tropical Storm Fay leads the Atlantic coast as we speak, although the hurricane season and tropical storms do not generally start reaching mid-August. TheNational Hurricane Center in Miami is responsible for the denomination of tropical or subtropical cyclones within the North Atlantic Ocean. There are lists of names that turn every six years and every season, they start with the letter A and pass to B, C, etc. from there (jump q and u and ending at w). But there is something particularly threatening of this name from the current tropical storm: the meteorological experts noted thatIt is the earliest that the namers of the storm had the letter "F" (ie the sixth storm) of the current scheduled era.
"With the training of today tropical storm, we saw theAs soon as possible the development of the sixth tropical system named In the Atlantic basin in recorded history. These archives return to the 1800s, "reports NY1.
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Dennis Feltgen, Public Affairs Manager of the National Hurricane Center, saidThe New York Times, "It was planned to be aactive season And by GOLLY is. We have not even scratched the surface of the season yet. "
The previous registration for an early storm "F" was defined in 2005 by Tropical Storm Franklin, which formed in the Bahamas on July 22nd this year. As a comparison, the mean letter "F" storm form early September. And, as you can remember, 2005 was the yearHurricane Katrina Killed more than 1,800 people, making it the most murderer American hurricane since 1928.
And what you probably did not know is that it's thesecond A storm naming record similar to define this year. Tropical Storm Edouard, which formed on July 4th, became the oldest storm of "E" atlantic, following the record of the tropical storm Emily, also in 2005.
Thursday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center warned that FAY will bring high rains and possible floods in the middle of the Atlantic and Northeast, especially from Maryland to Rhode Island. So, storm observers, prepare. And for more terrible storms, check33 facts about storms that will make you run for coverage.
