Hurricane already?
That's right. A tropical disturbance has been detected by the National Hurricane Center already in the month of June. The GFDL shows that there could possibly be a CAT 1 hurricane making landfall around the Mississippi/Louisiana border by Saturday morning.This may seem like too early in the season for a hurricane to already be gracing us with its presence, but there have actually been numerous other occasions when hurricanes, or almost hurricanes, have struck in June.
Tropical Storm Allison payed a visit in 2001. She weakened very rapidly so the term "hurricane" didn't get used. Tropical Storm Bill made landfall in Louisiana in 2003.
Did you know that on average one tropical storm is observed during June every two years? Pretty amazing to have that amount of energy this early on.
posted by Anonymous @ 3:14 PM
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1963 Hurricane Alma (June 4, 1963) entered the gulf coast area as a Cat 3 hurricane..finally making landfall near Panama City. Another unnamed storm in 1945 (June 20th)was also a Cat 3 storm--and it formed in the same area as our current storm
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