According to today's Houston Chronicle,
More than 90 percent of Atlantic hurricanes develop between Aug. 15 and Oct. 15. And if that weren't enough, consider the 2004 hurricane season with its eight hurricanes, four of which battered Florida. Its first storm didn't form until Aug. 1.
"Really, you can't tell what a hurricane season is going to do until August," said Jeff Masters, chief meteorologist with The Weather Underground, a popular Web site for tracking hurricane activity.
I frequently check the
Tropical Weather: Weather Underground site and it is my first, but not only, place to look for updates. Jeff Masters' blog there is the source of the graph of storm frequency by month to the left. You can click on the image to enlarge it, but Sept 10 is at the peak, with Aug 1 and Nov 10 showing where the 'mountain' begins and ends.
I frequently check the Tropical Weather: Weather Underground site and it is my first, but not only, place to look for updates. Jeff Masters' blog there is the source of the graph of storm frequency by month to the left. You can click on the image to enlarge it, but Sept 10 is at the peak, with Aug 1 and Nov 10 showing where the 'mountain' begins and ends.
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