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The Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 2014. [12] It was a below average season in which nine tropical cyclones formed. Eight of the nine designated cyclones attained tropical storm status, the fewest since the 1997 Atlantic hurricane season. [17] Of the eight tropical storms, six reached at least Category 1 hurricane intensity.
Timeline of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season. The 2014 Atlantic hurricane season was an event in the annual hurricane season in the north Atlantic Ocean. It featured below-average tropical cyclone activity, [nb 1] with the fewest named storms since the 1997 season. [2] The season officially began on June 1, 2014 and ended on November 30, 2014.
The strongest of these tropical cyclones was Typhoon Vongfong, which strengthened to a minimum barometric pressure of 900 mbar (hPa; 26.58 inHg) before striking the east coast of Japan. The costliest and deadliest tropical cyclone in 2014 was Typhoon Rammasun, which struck China in July, causing US$8.08 billion in damage.
The season started ominously. On 2 July, Hurricane Beryl became the earliest category five hurricane to form in the Atlantic on records going back to 1920. Just a few weeks earlier in May, US ...
t. e. The practice of using names to identify tropical cyclones goes back several centuries, with storms named after places, saints or things they hit before the formal start of naming in each basin. Examples of such names are the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane (also known as the "San Felipe II" hurricane) and the 1938 New England hurricane.
On June 25, 2014, an area of showers and thunderstorms developed over the northern Gulf of Mexico ahead of a shortwave trough in Texas. [1] That day, National Hurricane Center (NHC) began monitoring the possibility of tropical cyclogenesis off the Southeast United States over the following week as the system was expected to encounter favorable environmental conditions. [2]
All 33 storms showed signs of birds and insects inside the eye of the storm. Unfortunately, after hunkering down in the eye, some birds end up in far-flung places where they might not be able to ...
October 10, 2024 at 2:55 PM. The northern lights have already put in a show across Ohio in May. Tonight, the aurora borealis could shine across the northern half of the United States thanks to an ...