This season is considered catastrophic and a record number of major hurricanes and the damage caused by them.
So, Maria, who became the highest hurricane, the 5th category, is upon Dominica and can go on the same path as Irma, which ravaged the Islands of the Caribbean. Hurricane Jose threatened the East coast of the United States.
Not worth the extra time to panic, say the meteorologists, but too early to relax. The hurricane season can last for another two months.
2017 set a sad record for the hurricanes. As told to USA Today meteorologist Colorado State University Phil Klotzbach, the energy that splash out of the storm (the so-called «accumulated cyclone energy») 2017-th year was the most powerful since 2005, when Louisiana suffered from hurricane Katrina.
In addition, for the first time since 1851 for a short time in the US on land «landed» two of the storm 4th category (Harvey and Irma).
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What is the reason?
Specialists AccuWeather say that one of the factors is the lack of this season dust storms that move from Africa into the Atlantic, providing a «drying» effect on the development of storms.
Also this year, the weak influence of the El niño fluctuations of the temperature of the surface water layer in the ocean, having a noticeable impact on the climate. El niño typically reduces the risk of formation of Atlantic hurricanes.
Under forecasts of weather forecasters AccuWeather, the large area of high pressure centered near Bermuda will continue to gather around him the humid air which came into the thread to turn into a hurricane.
«Under such conditions, usually up to two or three name of hurricanes in October. And another one in November and December,» — said the expert on hurricanes AccuWeather Dan Kottlowski.
The Atlantic hurricane season officially lasts until November 30, but some hurricanes have been registered even on the eve of the New year, for example, Alice in 1954.
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