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re: Hurricane Elsa: CAT 1 Storm Barrels Toward Caribbean & Florida
Devastating 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Breaks All Records. Atlantic Basin Churns Out Record-Setting 29th Named Storm Theta
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30. The areas covered include the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.
Hurricane center monitoring 2 systems brewing in Atlantic as season peak approaches
NHC / AP, 10 NOV 2020.
The annual record for the number of major storms forming in the Atlantic has been shattered, with Subtropical Storm Theta becoming the 29th named event in a hyperactive hurricane season.
The US National Hurricane Center said the development of Theta, currently churning through the heart of the Atlantic, had broken a record that stood since 2005, when there were 28 named storms.
Yet another named storm could be in the works, with meteorologists tracking one through the Caribbean.
There have been so many big storms in 2020 that meteorologists exhausted their English-language list of names and had to turn to the Greek alphabet, rapidly burning through Alpha to Eta. In September, there were five storms lined up in the Atlantic at once.
The formation of Subtropical Storm Theta on Monday night pushed the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season into uncharted waters, with no other season in history having produced so many named storms.
2020 has now churned out 29 named storms, breaking the single-season record of 28 storms from the infamous 2005 season, which produced powerhouse hurricanes such as Katrina, Wilma and Rita.
As the busiest stretch of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season approaches, forecasters on Tuesday are monitoring two areas of disturbed weather out over the ocean.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami said Tuesday morning that one tropical wave is located over the eastern Caribbean Sea, while the second system brewing at sea is located about 900 miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands.
These two tropical waves in the Atlantic basin will have the opportunity later this week to develop as we head into the historically most active two months of hurricane season.
While significant development of this system is still unlikely during the coming days as it moves 20 mph westward across the eastern and central Caribbean Sea, changes may come by the weekend. According to the NHC, there’s a 60% chance a tropical depression forms over the next five days.
The second, broad area of low pressure out over the Atlantic is producing a “concentrated area of showers and thunderstorm,” where favorable conditions exist for development.
A tropical depression is likely to form within the next couple of days while the system moves westward to west-northwestward at 15 to 20 mph.
Forecasters said there’s a 70% chance within the next 48 hours and a 90% chance within the next five days.
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