The 2023 hurricane season starts Thursday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the United States has issued the names of the hurricanes or tropical storms that will occur during the 2023 hurricane season. These lists are cycled over a five or six-year series of lists with names removed from the list when there is a major storm that causes loss of live and major damage to property and infrastructure.
The list of names for this 2023 are:
Arlene, Bret, Cindy, Don, Emily, Franklin, Gert, Harold, Idalia, Jose, Katia, Lee, Margot, Nigel, Ophelia, Philippe, Rina, Sean, Tammy, Vince and Whitney.
The US government weather forecasts say that the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be less active than in recent years. All the forecasts mention that the process known as the El Niño, in the Pacific Ocean tends to moderate the hurricane activity in the Atlantic. Competing factors — some that suppress storm development and some that fuel it — are driving this year’s overall forecast for a near-normal season.
This year’s forecast is for between 12 and 17 named tropical cyclones, of which five to nine will reach hurricane intensity. Of these, perhaps one to four will become major events of Category 3 or higher.
In the Dominican Republic, September has historically been the month for hurricanes to hit, while there have been intense tropical storms affecting the country in October and November.
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Diario Libre
29 May 2023