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Monday, November 14, 2005 9:04:33 PM
GUESS WHAT! #27 on the prowl!
The twenty-seventh tropical depression of the Atlantic hurricane season formed late Sunday in the Windward Islands and is now located more than 235 miles west of St. Lucia. The depression is moving toward the WNW and appears to be close to tropical storm strength. If the system does reach storm status it would be called Gamma, the third letter of the Greek alphabet. Its future course is expected to be generally westward, remaining in the Caribbean Sea. In the meantime, however, its circulation will deliver locally heavy rain to the Lesser Antilles, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, over the next 24 hours.
The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season already has shattered many long-standing records,
· Record number of named storms (23), requiring the use of the Greek alphabet for the last two storms.
· There have also been 13 hurricanes so far this season breaking the old record of 12 set in 1969.
· Another record set was for the most category five hurricanes (3) in a season with Katrina, Rita, and Wilma.
· Wilma would become the strongest hurricane on record in the Atlantic Basin with a pressure of 882 mb breaking the old record held by Gilbert set in 1988 with a pressure of 888 mb.
· The landfall of (4) major hurricanes on the U.S. set a record.
· Also, the final tally for damage will go on to show that this season was the most costly in U.S. History breaking the terrible season of 2004 with 45 billion in damage just recently set last year.
November named storms haven't been a stranger to the Atlantic Basin, however. Last year, Tropical Storm Otto flared in the open Atlantic Ocean the last day of November. A pair of tropical storms, Odette and Peter, spun up in early December 2003. U.S. hurricane landfalls in November, thankfully, are very rare. Since 1861, only 6 U.S. November hurricane landfalls have occurred, most recently 20 years ago when Category 2 Hurricane Kate struck near Apalachicola, Fla. This was the only November U.S. hurricane landfall in the last 70 years.
The twenty-seventh tropical depression of the Atlantic hurricane season formed late Sunday in the Windward Islands and is now located more than 235 miles west of St. Lucia. The depression is moving toward the WNW and appears to be close to tropical storm strength. If the system does reach storm status it would be called Gamma, the third letter of the Greek alphabet. Its future course is expected to be generally westward, remaining in the Caribbean Sea. In the meantime, however, its circulation will deliver locally heavy rain to the Lesser Antilles, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, over the next 24 hours.
The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season already has shattered many long-standing records,
· Record number of named storms (23), requiring the use of the Greek alphabet for the last two storms.
· There have also been 13 hurricanes so far this season breaking the old record of 12 set in 1969.
· Another record set was for the most category five hurricanes (3) in a season with Katrina, Rita, and Wilma.
· Wilma would become the strongest hurricane on record in the Atlantic Basin with a pressure of 882 mb breaking the old record held by Gilbert set in 1988 with a pressure of 888 mb.
· The landfall of (4) major hurricanes on the U.S. set a record.
· Also, the final tally for damage will go on to show that this season was the most costly in U.S. History breaking the terrible season of 2004 with 45 billion in damage just recently set last year.
November named storms haven't been a stranger to the Atlantic Basin, however. Last year, Tropical Storm Otto flared in the open Atlantic Ocean the last day of November. A pair of tropical storms, Odette and Peter, spun up in early December 2003. U.S. hurricane landfalls in November, thankfully, are very rare. Since 1861, only 6 U.S. November hurricane landfalls have occurred, most recently 20 years ago when Category 2 Hurricane Kate struck near Apalachicola, Fla. This was the only November U.S. hurricane landfall in the last 70 years.
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