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2024 Hurricane Season

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These names can be applied to hurricanes, tropical storms and other systems that originate in the Atlantic Ocean:

*Alberto
*Beryl
*Chris
*Debby
*Ernesto
*Francine
*Gordon
*Helene
*Isaac
*Joyce
*Kirk
*Leslie
*Milton

-Nadine
-Oscar
-Patty
-Rafael
-Sara
-Tara
-Valerie
-William

* = indicates storm formed and was named
 
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Stickying this thread for hurricane season, @Dead2009.
 

Florida (and the broader Southeast) is on alert for the first major tropical soaker of the season....
 
Theyre saying this is gonna linger in the south for days. Like South Carolina is screwed.
 
Theyre saying this is gonna linger in the south for days. Like South Carolina is screwed.
No kidding; South Carolina's already a swamp south/east of Columbia. They don't need more rain.
 
 
 
I know a woman, a board member on my writing sites, who just went through Debby. No major damage to her place except to a pier but lots of cleanup. We got a day of heavy rain here courtesy of the last remnants of Beryl. So far, though, that's been the only major impact on Canada. Two years ago, my wife and I had to cancel part of a tour of Eastern Canada because some of the places we planned to go got nailed by a hurricane. Forget which one right now.
 
MD is getting what's left of the storm over the weekend. In fact we're smack dab in the middle of the cone.
 
After first arriving in Florida as a hurricane, the storm spent the better part of a week unleashing tornadoes and flooding, damaging homes and taking lives as it moved up the East Coast.

Though the skies cleared, a flood warning remained in effect until Saturday night in a small part of northern New York where up to 7 inches (18 centimeters) of rain fell. The National Weather Service said water there was receding slowly, and many roads remained flooded.

Nearly 170,000 customers in Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont had no electricity Saturday afternoon, according to PowerOutage.us, and some utilities said restoration could take days. More than half the outages were in Ohio, where Debby-related storms including tornadoes blew through the northeastern part of the state on Wednesday.

Debby’s last day over the U.S. before moving over Canada inundated south-central New York and north-central Pennsylvania with rain Friday, prompting evacuations and rescues by helicopter. The post-tropical cyclone continued dropping rain on New England and southern Quebec on Friday night, though conditions improved the following morning as the system continued moving northeast...
 
Ernesto finally got named
 

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