According to NOAA and About.com:
Officially, the Atlantic hurricane season is from 1 June to 30 November, but as the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) notes:
"There is nothing magical in these dates, and hurricanes have occurred outside of these six months, but these dates were selected to encompass over 97% of tropical activity."
When Is the Hurricane Season Most Active?
Again according to the AOML, there's a "very peaked season from August to October", with:
78% of the tropical storm days
87% of the "minor" hurricane days
96% of the "major" hurricane days
And within this peak hurricane season, early to mid-September is the pinnacle.
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So according to this information, we are just about out of the peak hurricane season, whew.
1 comment:
When's Hurrican Deb coming to STJ?
Cheers, RickG
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