Hurricane
Season 2011 in Florida.
In last year too we had a relatively quiet Hurricane Season even when we
expected more activity. But we will not always be so lucky and we have to be
prepared for this case. For this year there is a much more active season
predicted. El Ninjo had a very strong influence on the weather patterns in
the last years. According to the expectations will this influence disappear
in this year for the near future.
For this year the prediction for the possible storm systems is from 12 up to
18 named tropical storms. The average is 11 tropical storms. It is expected
that 6 to 10 storms will have the ability to develop into Hurricanes. The
long time average is 6 Hurricanes.
From 3 up to 6 of these predicted storms can gain the strength of the
category 3 and more. These storms are “Major Hurricanes”.
The storm names are chosen in
advance for each year and each storm system gets its name as soon as it
becomes organized and reaches a specific strength. If there are huge
collateral damages during a named storm this storm name will be eliminate
from name list and will never be used again.
The Hurricane Season starts officially on June 1st every year and ends on
November 30th. The main season with the most likely storms is
according to the long time experience between August and October.
For the year 2011 the following name are chosen for the tropical storms and
Hurricanes:
Arlene Tropical storm
(06/28-06/30) The first tropical storm of the season
developed in the gulf bay in front of Tampico and moves toward the
Mexican shore line.
Bret
Tropical storm (07/17-07/20) This tropical storm developed right in
front of the shoreline of southeast Florida but it is so kind to turn
northeast work to the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
Cindy Tropical storm (07/20-07/22)
This storm developed in the middle of
the Atlantic Ocean, turned to the northeast and was done after 2
days.
Don Tropical storm
(07/27-07/30) The next storm was born in the strait
between Yucatan and Cuba, moved across the Golf towards the
Mexican-Texican Border. This storm was urgently expected to bring
the much needed rain after the long lasting drought in Texas.
Emily Tropical storm
(08/01-08/07) Emily developed southeast of Haiti
and crossed Haiti in northwest direction towards Florida. The storm
then turned to north east and moved across the Bahamas to the
open Atlantic where the storm disappeared.
Franklin Tropical storm (08/13-08/14) This storm
developed north of
Bermuda on the open waters and moves towards the Azores. The
storm quickly lost strength and disappeared.
Gert Tropical storm
(08/14-08/16) This storm was born south of Bermuda
as the tropical Depression No. 7. With the gaining strength the
depression became a storm which moved east of Bermuda to the
north east into the open Atlantic.
Harvey Tropical Storm (19.08.-22.08.) Harvey
developed in front of the
shoreline of Honduras and moved into the direction of Belize. There
the storm met the land and crossed the peninsula of Yucatan in the
direction of the gulf bay of Veracruz where it at last died.
Irene Tropical Hurricane
(08/21-08/29) This hurricane is the first in this
year, which might cause damages on the mainland of the United
States. Irene was born east of the Lesser Antilles and crossed over
the Puerto Rico Island as a Category 1 Hurricane and moved north
of Haiti over the open waters to Florida. The Hurricane changed its
direction slightly to the east and crossed the Bahama Islands while
Florida only gets the rain showers and wind gusts from Irene. The
Hurricane Irene touched the US-mainland first in Cape Hatteras.
From there it moved along the coast towards New York. There Irene
was only a tropical storm with enough strength for massive
flooding.
Jose Tropical Storm
(08/28-08/29) Southeast of Bermuds born on the open
waters. It had only short show in the Atlantic and turned to the
north.
Katia Tropical Hurricane (08/30-09/10) Katia developed south of the Cape
Verde
Islands and moved in northwest direction towards the
Caribbean Sea.
Katia stayed on her way outside from populated
country sides and moved part-time as a Category 3 Hurricane before
the East coast shores of the USA without causing damages and then
she turned northwestward towards the ocean.
Lee Tropical Storm
(09/01-09/05) Lee developed in the middle of the Gulf
of Mexico to a tropical storm, which moved directly to the Gulf coast
of Louisiana. After landfall Lee brought a lot of rain to the mainland
and cools that region a little bit down after the drought.
Maria Tropical Hurricane (09/05-09/16)
Maria developed as tropical storm
before the Cape Verde Islands and moved towards the Lower Antilles
in the Caribbean. She quick touches a few islands and turned to the
Northwest back toward the open waters of the Atlantic. When Maria
came near to the Northeast States she was a Hurricane Category 1
but made no landfall as a Hurricane. She
was downgraded to a
tropical storm.
Nate Tropical Storm (09/07-09/11)
The tropical storm Nate developed in
the Bay of Campeche and played there only a 4 days game. When he
made landfall the tropical storm was downgraded to a tropical
depression and there were no reports of damages.
Ophelia Tropical Hurricane (09/21-10/03) This storm
developed in front of
the shoreline of West Africa and moved slowly across the Atlantic.
Before the hurricane met the Caribbean it turned northwards and
made landfall at the peninsula of New Foundland. This hurricane had
sometimes the strength of a category 4 hurricane.
Philippe Tropical Storm (09/24-10/09) It developed south
of the Cape Verde
Islands and moved in westward direction towards the Caribbean but
it was detoured to the North before it met the Caribbean Islands.
The storm stayed more eastward than Ophelia on the open waters of
the Ocean and had no land contact before it vanished.
Rina
Tropical Hurricane (10/25-10/28) This storm developed over the last
days closely watch by the weather centers and was declared a
tropical Hurricane category 2.
Luckily this storm moved along the
shoreline of the Yucatan Peninsula and died in the open waters
between Yucatan and Cuba.
Sean Tropical Storm (11/08-11/11)
Sean had only a short lifetime and
because of favorable weather condition this storm stayed in the
middle Atlantic without any threats for the continent.
Tammy
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