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BumRushDaShow

(144,211 posts)
Fri Nov 29, 2024, 10:58 AM Nov 29

The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season was the deadliest in nearly two decades

Source: NPR

November 29, 2024 5:00 AM ET


MIAMI — One of the deadliest and most costly hurricane seasons ever seen in the Atlantic officially comes to a close on Saturday. The six-month season brought 18 named storms and 11 hurricanes, five of which made landfall in the U.S. There were hundreds of deaths in the U.S., Central America and the Caribbean.

In the U.S., more than 150 people died from direct causes in the season's deadliest storm, Hurricane Helene, which tore through Florida and Georgia and brought severe flooding and destruction to North Carolina and in eastern Tennessee.

Before the season began, scientists warned there were likely to be a lot of hurricanes. Record-high ocean temperatures in the Atlantic two to three degrees warmer than normal and other atmospheric conditions set the stage for the above-normal activity.

In late June, Hurricane Beryl formed in the Atlantic and strengthened into a Category 5 storm with 165-mile-per-hour winds. It was the earliest in the season that a Category 5 hurricane had ever formed. It weakened significantly before landfall but caused severe flooding and deaths in the Houston area.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2024/11/27/nx-s1-5205099/2024-atlantic-hurricane-season-ends



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The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season was the deadliest in nearly two decades (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Nov 29 OP
Eh...our fearless NAZI will just start nuking them....no problem!! Bengus81 Nov 29 #1
he's privatizing the national weater service so we won't even get much warning rampartd Nov 29 #2
What Would It Have Been Like If The Forecasts Were Extremely Inaccurate? modrepub Nov 29 #3

rampartd

(874 posts)
2. he's privatizing the national weater service so we won't even get much warning
Fri Nov 29, 2024, 12:10 PM
Nov 29

but like all trump problems, the hurricane" will go away, all by itself, in just 2 weeks."

modrepub

(3,639 posts)
3. What Would It Have Been Like If The Forecasts Were Extremely Inaccurate?
Fri Nov 29, 2024, 12:39 PM
Nov 29

The National Hurricane Center did a great job predicting the paths and strength of these storms. Without these warnings, I think a lot more people would have been hurt.

For what it's worth, the government weather forecasters accuracy was rewarded by accusations that government was controlling the weather and devastating "red" areas. Guess not good deed goes unpunished.

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