2024 Hurricane Season

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What happened to predictions of a ‘historic’ hurricane season?​

...Now, the Atlantic is making history for an unexpected and confounding distinction: It’s the longest stretch in more than half a century without a single late-summer cyclone, a time of year when several often churn at once. Though two months of storm risks still lie ahead, the astonishing lull has meteorologists wrestling with confusion and criticism, while striving to protect delicate public trust.

MSN

 

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Tropical Storm Francine Forecast To Become A Hurricane Ahead Of Louisiana Strike Wednesday

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2024-09-10-tropical-storm-hurricane-francine-forecast-gulf-coast-louisiana

 

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Tropical Storm Francine Intermediate Advisory Number 8A
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL062024
100 PM CDT Tue Sep 10 2024

...FRANCINE NOW MOVING NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE WESTERN GULF OF
MEXICO...
...EXPECTED TO BECOME A HURRICANE THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT...


SUMMARY OF 100 PM CDT...1800 UTC...INFORMATION
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LOCATION...25.3N 95.2W
ABOUT 130 MI...210 KM ESE OF MOUTH OF THE RIO GRANDE
ABOUT 380 MI...610 KM SW OF MORGAN CITY LOUISIANA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...65 MPH...100 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NE OR 35 DEGREES AT 9 MPH...14 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...988 MB...29.18 INCHES

Tropical Storm Francine Public Advisory

 

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Hurricane Francine makes landfall in Louisiana as category 2 storm

Officials warn of life-threatening storm surge and flooding as evacuation orders in place in some parishes

www.theguardian.com

Francine made landfall in south Louisiana on Wednesday as a category 2 hurricane as officials warned of life-threatening storm surge, flooding and 100mph winds.

There were evacuation orders in some parishes, as communities braced.

The US National Weather Service warned of “damaging winds, life-threatening storm surge and torrential rain” in an area still recovering from a series of devastating hurricanes in 2020 and 2021...

 

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Rumor has it, it's gonna make landfall as a cat 4 tomorrow night.

 

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As surging water from Hurricane Helene inundated the Tampa Bay area Thursday, Tampa General Hospital stayed dry, thanks to a temporary floodwall that protected the hospital.

In a video posted by the hospital, which sits on an island in Hillsborough Bay, a fence several feet tall keeps the floodwaters at bay as Helene churns through the area.
LINK ... there's more

 

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(The Guardian) Officials warn Hurricane Milton poses an 'extremely serious threat' to Florida
The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) has warned that Hurricane Milton, expected to bring heavy rainfall and storm surges as high as 15 feet, “poses an extremely serious threat to Florida”.

The densely populated west coast of the state is braced for landfall of the category 4 storm on Wednesday. More than a million people were ordered to evacuate from its path.

The NHC projected the storm was likely to hit near the Tampa Bay metropolitan area, home to more than 3 million people.

It comes days after Hurricane Helene caused devastation and destruction through large swaths of Florida and other parts of the south-east of the US.

The death toll from Helene- which made landfall on the Florida Gulf coast on 26 September – stands at about 230 people, but this is expected to increase. It then ripped through Georgia and North Carolina, both of which are swing states and essentially must wins for the Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump. Both Trump and the US vice president, Kamala Harris, are targeting these states hard.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) has already had to respond to rife misinformation concerning its response to Helene, amplified on the presidential campaign trail by Trump and some of his supporters.

Trump has falsely accused the US president, Joe Biden, and Harris of favouring migrants over disaster-hit areas. “They stole the Fema money, just like they stole it from a bank, so they could give it to their illegal immigrants that they want to have vote for them this season,” Trump has said. “Kamala spent all her Fema money, billions of dollars, on housing for illegal immigrants.” Trump added the places worst hit are “largely a Republican area so some people say they did it for that reason”.

 

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As of 6 am this morning

 

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Hurricane Milton update as Florida breaks tornado warning record

Several tornadoes touched down in central and southern Florida ahead of Milton making landfall.

www.newsweek.com

Florida broke the record for tornado warnings in a day cause of the hurricane

 

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We've got the next storm potentially brewing in the Atlantic and of course, the track has it heading for the east coast of Florida right now

Storm tracker: National Hurricane Center monitoring 'area of active weather' in Atlantic

The area of low pressure is a "potential storm," according to a NWS senior forecaster. But it has a low chance of forming over the next week.

www.usatoday.com

 

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There's one in the gulf, but it's impacting Central America instead this time

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2024-10-18-tropical-depression-storm-nadine-central-america

 

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Oscar is now a thing

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2024-10-19-tropical-storm-nadine-oscar-caribbean-tracker

 

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(The Guardian) Fact-checking Donald Trump's hurricane claims
Donald Trump repeated a litany of falsehoods and conspiracy theories about Hurricane Helene and the federal government’s response while campaigning in North Carolina today.

The former president falsely suggested, once again, that federal money meant for hurricane relief was “spent … on illegal migrants”. There is no basis for the claim that disaster funding was reallocated to services related to immigration. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) is part of the Department of Homeland Security, which also oversees the major US immigration agencies. But money allocated for a program to help migrants is separate and unrelated to disaster response funds.

Trump also falsely implied that the Democrats were spending money on undocumented people so that they could “vote in the election”, reiterating his frequently cited baseless claim about election fraud.

He also claimed Fema’s money is “all gone”. But this is false, CNN noted, as the federal agency told the network last week that its disaster relief fund had roughly $8.5bn remaining.
-Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...rth-carolina-hurricane-conspiracy-immigration

 

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