Paulette is now a hurricane - serious question

[malaise]

How far across the pond will this retain hurricane strength? Our oceans are way too hot.


Bermuda

[spanone]

1. ⭐️K&R⭐️

[femmocrat]

2. How did we get from Laura to Sally so quickly?

I didn’t hear about M - N- O- Paulette -Q - R!!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Marco was a hurricane in mid-August, then

fizzled out as Laura got fairly strong.

Omar remained a tropical storm, didn't become a hurricane.

Nana was in late August, early September, but did its thing in central America and just north of South America. Plus it wasn't very strong.

Renee didn't get very strong and remained in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

The letter Q isn't used to name storms. Nor are the letters U, X, Y, or Z.

I got all this from the Wikipedia entry on the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. I got the information on the letters by looking at lists of hurricane names.

This has been an unusually active season. And the names are being used up faster than ever.

[femmocrat]

6. Wow, thanks!

You are our hurricane “guru!”

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. Naahh. I'm not a hurricane guru.

Just felt like doing a quick Google search and past that. Yeah, I could have been snarky and told you to look it up, but it took me perhaps five minutes to assemble and post that information.

It's easy not to be aware of some factual stuff, and you may not always feel like looking stuff up.

I know I'm constantly befuddled by references here to people, or things that happened that somehow I know nothing about. I am especially ignorant of a lot of pop culture because I don't keep up with music and have never watched a lot of very popular movies or TV shows. I frequently have to Google stuff. I do get annoyed and frustrated by abbreviations that make no sense, and that when I Google them, don't show up.

[Klaralven]

7. Seems like they are naming systems while they are farther out to sea, well before they threaten land

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. I'm inclined to agree with you here.

I don't seem to recall hurricanes being named until the actually reached hurricane status in the past. Perhaps we are both mis-remembering. I suppose some research about hurricane seasons in earlier years would be helpful, but at the moment I don't feel like doing that, even if that information were readily available on line.

[LeftInTX]

11. It's also a digital age thing

More technology = More named storms

[LeftInTX]

4. Yikes!! Bermuda

The graph shows it lasting as a hurricane until 35 W. After that it will become storm and will probably bring heavy rain to somewhere between North Africa and the UK. Once storms get far enough north, they lose their tropical cyclogenesis nature.

[malaise]

5. The good news for Bermuda is that it won't be a major hurricane

The S came up in the 2.00pm update - still they are staying stronger for longer

[Amishman]

10. its going to intersect the gulf stream, which will help it retain strength far further north