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Wild Hurricane Facts as Season Gets Super Stormy
Sep 15, 2010 3:40 PM ET
By OurAmazingPlanet Staff
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With three storms swirling in the Gulf and Atlantic today (Sept. 15), there are many questions spinning in peoples? minds about hurricanes ? just how many can there be at one time and can they ever run into each other and form a super-hurricane?<SCRIPT type=text/javascript>// <![CDATA[ function google_ad_request_done(google_ads){ var s = ''; var i; if(google_ads.length == 0){ return; } s += 'Ads by Google' for(i = 0; i < google_ads.length; ++i){ s += '' + '' + google_ads.line1 + '' + google_ads.line2 + ' ' + google_ads.line3 + '' + google_ads.visible_url + '</span>' + '' + '
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Here, a few facts about some crazy hurricane occurrences.
What's the highest number of hurricanes there have ever been at one time in the Atlantic Basin?
Four hurricanes are the most storms that have occurred simultaneously, and that has happened on two occasions.
The first occasion was Aug. 22, 1893, and one of these eventually killed 1,000 to 2,000 people in Georgia and South Carolina. The second occurrence was Sept. 25, 1998, when Georges, Ivan, Jeanne and Karl all persisted to Sept. 27, 1998 as hurricanes. Georges ended up taking the lives of thousands in Haiti.
In 1971, from Sept. 10 to 12, there were five tropical cyclones (the name that encompasses hurricanes and tropical storms) at the same time; however, while most of these ultimately achieved hurricane intensity, there were never more than two hurricanes at any one time.
What is the highest number of hurricanes that have occurred in a single season?
Fourteen hurricanes formed in 2005, including a rare December hurricane known as hurricane Epsilon after the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet. Nominally, the Atlantic hurricane season ends on Nov. 30 (and begins on June 1).
The 2005 hurricane season saw a whopping 27 named storms (including hurricanes and tropical storms) and was the first time U.S. hurricane experts have run out of traditional names for storms in the history of weather-record keeping, forcing the move to naming storms after the letters of the Greek alphabet. The final storm of the season was Tropical Storm Zeta.
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Sep 15, 2010 3:40 PM ET
By OurAmazingPlanet Staff
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Here, a few facts about some crazy hurricane occurrences.
What's the highest number of hurricanes there have ever been at one time in the Atlantic Basin?
Four hurricanes are the most storms that have occurred simultaneously, and that has happened on two occasions.
The first occasion was Aug. 22, 1893, and one of these eventually killed 1,000 to 2,000 people in Georgia and South Carolina. The second occurrence was Sept. 25, 1998, when Georges, Ivan, Jeanne and Karl all persisted to Sept. 27, 1998 as hurricanes. Georges ended up taking the lives of thousands in Haiti.
In 1971, from Sept. 10 to 12, there were five tropical cyclones (the name that encompasses hurricanes and tropical storms) at the same time; however, while most of these ultimately achieved hurricane intensity, there were never more than two hurricanes at any one time.
What is the highest number of hurricanes that have occurred in a single season?
Fourteen hurricanes formed in 2005, including a rare December hurricane known as hurricane Epsilon after the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet. Nominally, the Atlantic hurricane season ends on Nov. 30 (and begins on June 1).
The 2005 hurricane season saw a whopping 27 named storms (including hurricanes and tropical storms) and was the first time U.S. hurricane experts have run out of traditional names for storms in the history of weather-record keeping, forcing the move to naming storms after the letters of the Greek alphabet. The final storm of the season was Tropical Storm Zeta.
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