The Atlantic hurricane season ended this year with 20 named storms, including seven hurricanes.
The Atlantic hurricane season came to an end on Thursday, November 30, but this year the East Coast of the United States and Caribbean islands were spared many potentially destructive storms despite intense cyclone activity.
There were 20 named storms in the Atlantic basin, the fourth highest number since 1950. These included seven hurricanes, three of which became Category 3 or higher hurricanes.
However, there were some disastrous effects.
“The 2023 hurricane season shows that we can have impacts almost anywhere,” said Michael Brennan, director of the US National Hurricane Center in Miami.
“We had a tropical storm that devastated Southern California, Hurricane Idalia making landfall as a major hurricane off the coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico and Ofelia hitting the East Coast of the United States into New England, and so did we. “It had an impact across the Northeast when Hurricane Lee hit Nova Scotia,” Lee explained.
Higher intensity was recorded in the Pacific region. The hurricane center issued the first tropical storm warning for the California coast.
Additionally, several hurricanes hit Mexico, particularly toward the end of the season, including Hurricane Otis, a Category 5 cyclone that devastated Acapulco, killing dozens of people.
“It’s been a really intense season,” Brennan said.
The high number of named storms is part of a period of active storms since 2017, he noted. This particular season brought with it a “continuous period of activity” in the Atlantic and Pacific.
[Con información de AP]
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