![]() Major Hurricane Michelle struck Cuba hard in early November. It’s the longest-lasting major hurricane since Matthew in 2016. The eighth tropical cyclone and fifth hurricane of the 1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Ginger spent 27. Sam has remained a major hurricane (Cat 3+) ever since more than six days straight. continuing west towards the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane Ginger was the second longest-lasting Atlantic hurricane on record. impacting the Southeast US and up the East Coast, or 3. 2001 also had 15 storms, and nine reached hurricane strength. When the storms form, they typically take 3 different tracks as they push west, 1. Two of those were major hurricanes, with hurricanes Dean and Felix hitting Central America hard. Hurricane Donna, known in Puerto Rico as Hurricane San Lorenzo, was the strongest hurricane of the 1960 Atlantic hurricane season, and caused severe damage to the Lesser Antilles, the Greater Antilles, and the East Coast of the United States, especially Florida, in AugustSeptember. Taking a closer look at each of those years, out of the 15 storms that formed in 2007, only six reached hurricane strength. The second named system of the year in the Atlantic Basin, which crossed over Central. Right away that tells you that the Atlantic is unlikely to stay dormant. After traveling more than 6,600 miles in over a week, Bonnies unique record-breaking journey concludes. ![]() The three prior seasons with long consecutive stormless streaks-1999, 2001, and 2007 - ended the year with about an average number of named storms. It is well known from historical sources that Atlantic hurricane activity waxes and wanes, having experienced higher activity from the 1940s through the 1960s. And in 1999, the Atlantic had a 61-day-long stormless streak between June 18 and August 18. In 2007, there was a 59-day streak without storms from June 2 to July 31. The 46-day stormless streak matches June 17 to August 2, 2001, and sits behind the two longest stretches seen in the past quarter-century. ![]() It’s been so long since we’ve had a tropical storm in the Atlantic, that the period between July 3 and August 18 (today) is now tied for the third longest gap between named storms since 1995. But the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season has been slow up to this point, with three mostly weak systems having all lived and died before the Fourth of July. August 15 marked the beginning of the busiest nine-week stretch of hurricane season. ![]()
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