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Fall 2019  Volume 15, Number 3        
 

This Just In ...

So far hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to the end of November, has been mild. To date there have been only two named storms in the Atlantic all year and only Hurricane Barry which came up from the Gulf in July, was during hurricane season.

But the most dangerous part of the season starts toward the beginning of September, and we're not out of the woods yet. Not by a long shot, according to Dan Kottlowski, lead hurricane forecaster at AccuWeather Inc. He says that the reason the season has been so mild so far is that Africa's Sahara robbed potential storms of moisture and the wind shear by the El Nino climate systems in the Atlantic ripped the budding storms apart.

But the brakes on hurricane development are now gone.

The result, says Kottlowski, will be "a big change in the pattern over the Atlantic, going from a very lackluster quiet weather pattern to a much more active one. We are thinking this season will be back-loaded."

Once the hurricanes start, Jim Rouiller, chief meteorologist at the Energy Weather Group outside Philadelphia, told Bloomberg News, look out. "There is a deep pool of warm water tucked into the Gulf of Mexico, across the western Caribbean and along the U.S. Southeast coastline. Any storm that reaches those areas could explode in power," he said.

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Good News, Bad News about Car Theft

Why You Always Need an Umbrella — Even When It Isn't Raining

How to Protect against Lightning

Are You Prepared for an Emergency?

 

 


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