Hurricane Season Begins With Tax Holiday As Florida Prepares

Marathon | Florida and the Caribbean are on the alert: the season of hurricanes in the north Atlantic resumed officially on Friday, while the scars from the storms previous year are still visible.

Hurricane season begins June 1, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Prediction Center says there is a 75 percent chance the Atlantic hurricane season will be either around normal or more active than usual.

USA forecasters predict that we could see 10 to 16 named storms. A Category 3 hurricane has sustained winds over 119 miles per hour. While there were other factors that contributed to the severity of the last year’s hurricane season, warmer than normal ocean water did contribute to the intensity of the storms.

Here’s a look at what forecasters are saying, the changes the National Hurricane Center will make to its warning products, and other interesting bits of information about the season, which runs from now to November 30. However, the forecast team believes that neutral ENSO (El Niño-Southern Oscillation) conditions are the most likely scenario for this year’s season.

In Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties, hurricane preparedness is an important issue. The cone is swept out ahead of the storm location in a set of circles in 12-hour increments. Abnormally cool sea surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic.

This is now the fourth consecutive year that a storm has developed before the official start of the hurricane season.

The researchers wrote there is a 67 percent chance the number of named storms will fall between 10 and 18, and the number of hurricanes between four and eight.

Following months of legal disputes between the state and industry groups that pushed back on the requirements, the Florida Legislature passed rules mandating that those facilities verify they have installed a working generator or alternate backup power source by June 1, the start of hurricane season. “So as usual we advise all Belizeans to get your hurricane plan, get it activated, be prepared that if such a system arises, which we hope it would not, that we are being prepared for and to face and brace for the 2018 Atlantic basin hurricane season”. For example, the Bermuda High pressure in the central part of the Atlantic Ocean helps steer hurricanes.

So 10-16 named storms. If the Bermuda-Azores High is farther east in the Atlantic, storms tend to head toward the US coast and then curve north out to sea. Typically, storms that form away from the United States head out to sea.