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June 1, 2020 07:12 pm

It wouldnt be 2020 without an above-average hurricane season


Hurricane Dorian Makes Its Way Up East Coast

Hurricane Dorian makes landfall on North Carolina’s Outer Banks on September 6, 2019 | Photo by NOAA via Getty Images

The Atlantic hurricane season officially begins June 1st, and it’s going to be a doozy. “Hurricane season is off to a busy start!” the National Hurricane Center tweeted as it forecast an 80 percent chance of a tropical depression forming over the Bay of Campeche in the Gulf of Mexico this week.


There’s a 60 percent chance that this will be a worse-than-normal hurricane season, NOAA forecast last week. That could look like up to 19 named storms, including up to six major hurricanes. An average hurricane season is generally made up of around 12 named storms, with three major hurricanes.



2020, of course, has been anything but normal. The COVID-19 pandemic...



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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/21277074/2020-hurricane-season-forecast-atlantic-storms

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