The National Hurricane Center in Miami, Flora has issued its list of the 21 names to be used for tropical storms and hurricanes this season, which begins on 1 June and ends on 30 November. These names are from a list that began their rotation in 1953 and will begin anew in 2025. Names of major hurricanes, such as Michael and David and Andrew are usually removed from the lists.
This year’s list is Andrea, Barry, Chantal. Dorian. Erin, Fernand, Gabrielle, Humberto, Imelda, Jerry, Karen, Lorenzo, Melissa, Nestor, Olga, Pablo, Rebekah, Sebastien, Tanya, Van and Wendy.
According to the NHC, the names are updated and listed by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization. The NHC (www.nhc.noaa.gov) removed the names of two Atlantic Cat. 4 hurricanes, Florence and Michael, from the list, and substituted Francine and Milton, but these will not be used until 2024.
The 2019 season is forecast to be “slightly” below normal according to reports from Accuweather.com. The predictions from the people at the Tropical Meteorology Project at the Colorado State University in Denver published their forecasts late last week and, according to The Weather Channel, the results called for a “close to normal” season with 13 named tropical storms (12 is average) with 5 hurricanes and 2 major (Cat. 3 or larger) hurricanes. This is near the 30-year average of 12 named storms, 6 hurricanes and three major storms. The experts added that “less” does not mean less dangerous, so hurricane advisories should be carefully monitored.
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Diario Libre
Weather.com
8 April 2019