Thread: 2010 was 3rd busiest Hurricane Season on Record

2010 hurricane season is 3rd busiest on record despite little action in Florida


Last Updated: Monday, November 29, 2010 12:48 PM

ORLANDO --


Say goodbye to another hurricane season.
The 2010 Atlantic tropical season officially comes to a close Tuesday.

It may not seem like it to Floridians, but it’s been a very busy year in the Atlantic.
A total of 19 tropical storms were named from June through November. That makes 2010 the third busiest storm season on record.
Twelve of those storms became hurricanes, but the U.S. got through hurricane season generally unscathed.
High pressure helped sweep the storms up the Atlantic, and away from the East Coast.

The end of this hurricane season also marks the first time Florida has ever gone five years without a hurricane strike.

End of hurricane season ushers in dangerous dry season

By Jason Wheeler, Reporter
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 6:24 AM

COCOA -- Here in Florida, we don’t experience “regular” seasons like most of the rest of the country.
In the Sunshine State, it’s either hurricane season or wildfire season.
We laugh about it sometimes, but despite the recent rain over the last day or so, it has become extremely dry around the Orlando area.

But there is no official wildfire season marked on the calendar, and fire departments all across Central Florida have already dealt with good-sized brush fires this fall.
Sure, Florida escaped the worst of hurricane season, but those tropical systems usually bring the state’s biggest source of rain water to hold over residents after the summer storm season.

To help stay prepared for a long dry season, the Florida Division of Forestry has organized a brush fire workshop Tuesday in Cocoa -- choosing Brevard County because of its serious lack of rain in the last month.
Forestry officials plan to go over with developers and homeowners on what to do to protect their property now, before they see smoke on the horizon.

Officials will also remind home and business owners on how to be aware of their surroundings, and highlight the services available in case a fire threatens their neighborhoods.
Many Central Floridians remember fighting large fires that swept across the region in 1998, a piece of history officials and residents don’t want to see repeated during this year’s dry season.

U.S. had shields up to spare it from hurricanes | Hurricane Central | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Why did hurricanes spare U.S. this year?

In a year with 19 storms, it came down to this: Our shields were up

By ERIC BERGER
HOUSTON CHRONICLE

Nov. 29, 2010, 10:52PM


It may be a cliché, but that doesn't make it untrue: The United States dodged a bullet during the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season, which officially ends today.


In a summer when exceptionally warm seas fueled the formation of 19 named storms, a dozen of which became hurricanes, perhaps the most remarkable thing is that the U.S. escaped with a few minor scratches.


Since 1944, when the modern hurricane record began, only once has there been a year with more hurricanes, 2005, and a year with as many, 1969.


The big difference between those years and the summer of 2010, of course, is that Katrina, Rita and Wilma walloped the Gulf Coast during 2005, and in 1969 Hurricane Camille struck Mississippi as one of only three hurricanes to make landfall as a Category  5 storm, the most intense kind.

Florida has now gone FIVE CONSECUTIVE YEARS without a lanadfalling hurricane. That is one for the record books!

SHHHHHH!
They'll hear you.

I havae a feeling it won't last forever ... just a feeling.