Het is rustig boven de Atlantische oceaan. Maar blijft het ook zo....
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The Atlantic hurricane season has been in slumber for nearly a month, but don’t expect it to remain quiet for too much longer because the peak of hurricane season is on the way.
Tropical Storm Colin, which briefly impacted the coastal Carolinas with heavy rain and gusty winds on July 2 and 3, was the last system to roam the Atlantic Basin.
However, it’s not unusual for a lull in activity in the tropics in June or July before the season begins to ramp up in August.
According to the National Hurricane Center, an average June in the Atlantic features one named storm every one to two years, while July averages one named storm each year.
But as you can see in the graph below, roughly 90% of an average Atlantic hurricane season is still remaining as we head into August.
The period from August through early October tends to produce the most hurricanes and tropical storms in an average year. September is the single most active month of the Atlantic hurricane season, with Sept. 10 marking the official seasonal peak.
Consequently, this same period is typically when the strongest, most impactful hurricanes roam the Atlantic Basin.
Just in the last five years – from 2017 through 2021 – the US was struck by four hurricanes in August, five in September and four in October. That included last year’s Hurricane Ida, which devastated parts of southeastern Louisiana after making landfall as a Category 4 hurricane on Aug. 29.
https://nypost.com/2022/0(...)on-begins-in-august/