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General Category => National/Breaking News => Weather => Topic started by: libertybele on October 16, 2021, 07:22:40 pm
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Yay! A positive for the day. happy77 Hurricane season is over. The waters are cooling which is always a good sign. We're supposed to dip down into the high 60's tonight. We'll still reach the 80's tomorrow - beautiful weather.
Goodbye hurricane season? With 6 weeks to go, it may be all but over
While the Atlantic hurricane season does not officially end until Nov. 30, AccuWeather forecasters believe that the odds of any additional tropical storm formation in the near future are low. After a frenetic pace around the peak of hurricane season, there is now just one name left on the 2021 list of storm names: Wanda. Might that name go unused?
The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season got off to a record-fast start, with five storms forming by July 1, surpassing a record set just a year ago. The season continued at a fast pace, with development kicking off again in mid-August and continuing through mid-September. By the end of the period of rapid activity, eight storms had made landfall in the United States. But now, the tropics sit dormant.
"We're going into a situation where there are less tropical features coming off Africa, which before October usually are the instigators in the development of tropical storms and hurricanes," AccuWeather Hurricane Expert Dan Kottlowski said..........
............."We are going into a La Niña," Kottlowski said, referring to the climatological phenomenon in which sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean drop below average and can have far-reaching effects on weather elsewhere in the world. "And typically when you go into a La Niña, that favors keeping the vertical wind shear to the north and that's not happening just yet, the vertical wind shear has been deep into the tropics over the last several days, and that's the reason we really have not seen real robust patterns to create the opportunity for tropical development," he added. NOAA on Thursday announced that the La Niña phase had officially developed and that meteorologists expect it to remain into spring of next year................
https://news.yahoo.com/goodbye-hurricane-season-6-weeks-182526799.html