The Most Active Hurricane Season In Four Years Comes To An End

The season, which broke the hurricane drought in Florida, ended with 15 named storms, with seven of those classified as hurricanes.

Citizens Property Insurance Corporation expressed satisfaction with its response efforts to the first hurricanes to hit Florida in more than a decade as the end of the 2016 hurricane season officially ended November 30.

For Florida, which hadn’t experienced a landfall since Hurricane Wilma buzzed across the state in 2005, the season brought the long-anticipated end to that run of luck. “When is it going to strengthen?” said Buresh.

Damage to cars from either tropical storms or hurricanes is covered under the optional comprehensive portion of an auto insurance policy. Matthew moved parallel to the coast of Florida. Strong winds ripped roofs off some buildings, uprooted trees and caused widespread power outages.

The Colorado State team, founded by the late William Gray and led by Klotzbach, made its long-range seasonal forecasts, which called for a near-average hurricane season, on April 14 and June 1. “This was a serious storm for us, something we won’t forget”.

Instead of cruising through the season unaffected, this year saw Florida take a direct hurricane strike, endure major beach erosion on both coasts, and with the movement of Matthew, put areas of Southwest Florida under its first hurricane warning in years.

Matthew had the lowest pressure (934 millibars) and highest sustained winds of any Atlantic hurricane this season; the hurricane also broke a record nine-plus-year streak as a Category 5 Atlantic hurricane, and became a Category 5 at the southernmost latitude of any storm of that strength.

Fast forward to late May and Tropical Storm Bonnie also formed before June 1. No deaths were reported in Flagler County. “When that’s a limiting factor at the beginning and end of the season, a high temperature will make you see storms form”.

Overall, Buresh said the projected amount of storms were in the cone of what scientists predicted earlier in the year.

By then the storm had caused “extensive damage and loss of life” in the Caribbean, NOAA said, and set up “extensive fresh water flooding” for areas of the eastern Carolinas. State officials said 13 people died.

Tropical Storm Hermine blew into Myrtle Beach on September 2 dumping torrential rain that flooded roads, churning up rough seas that led to swim advisories and ushering in wind gusts that knocked out power in different parts of the county.

“It would have been 100 times worse”, said Judge. It lashed the country with major hurricane-force winds, flooding, storm surge and mudslides.

“Our max winds were 86 miles per hour and that was at Marineland, in the northeast corner of the county”, Garten said. Three of them were of great intensity (Category 3, 4 or 5 in the Saffir-Simpson Scale).