2023 HURRICANE SEASON: LEAST IMPACTFUL FOR US IN NEARLY A DECADE Changes for the hurricane season The National Hurricane Center is planning for several changes during the 2024 season that are designed to help those in harm’s way better understand the potential impacts from a tropical cyclone. ...
9 - 12. Hurricane Francine was a Category 2 hurricane that made landfall in Louisiana on Sept. 11 and then rapidly weakened over the next day. Tropical Storm Gordon —Sept. 11 - Sept. 17. This tropical storm formed in the middle of the Atlantic, far off the coast of Africa, before ...
Well, let's get some background on the process of naming a tropical system. Every season theNational Hurricane Center is given 21 names to go on the list for that season. Each of those names starts with a different letter of the alphabet. Names that start with the letters Q, U, X, ...
Once a storm has wind speeds of 38 mph (58 km/h), it is officially a tropical storm. At 74 mph (119 km/h), the storm has reached hurricane levels. At that point, scientists use a 1 to 5 scale known as the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale to classify hurricane strength, with C...