Hurricane season ends with just 1 tropical storm in Texas

While Hurricane Joaquin did not make a direct impact or landfall in the United States, a front sitting off the East Coast pulled a tremendous amount of Joaquin’s moisture into the Carolinas.

Forecasters agree that the strong El Nino feature in the Pacific Ocean was the reason for the relatively quiet Atlantic Hurricane season. Their predictions came true, with only 11 named storms forming, 4 hurricanes and 2 major hurricanes forming in the Atlantic basin.

The Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) Index is often used to assess the energy of individual storms and the collective energy of all storms within a hurricane season. They missed the number of hurricanes, and major hurricanes, by just one.

In August Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency because of Tropical Storm Erika but that storm only dumped heavy rains in the Caribbean.

The National Weather Service will issue its hurricane season wrap-up on Tuesday (Dec. 1).

He says the last hurricane to make landfall in Louisiana was Category 1 Hurricane Isaac in 2012. “This is the longest we’ve gone without a major hurricane landfall since modern hurricane record keeping began in 1851”.

“This is not a typical North Atlantic (sea surface temperature) pattern”, the two said in their report. 2015 was a quiet season compared to year’s past.

A concomitant increase in a number of favorable hurricane-enhancing parameters occur in the tropical Atlantic during the positive phase of this oscillation.

Klotzbach tells WRNO El Nino – warmer than normal water in the central and eastern tropical Pacific – was the main factor that kept the season quiet.

Here’s what happened in 2015. In effect, El Niño usually means reduced tropical activity across the Atlantic. The months that followed would bring more storms, few of which had any major impact on land. This causes the storm to weaken or struggle to form in the first place. It was the only system to hit the Gulf of Mexico in 2015.