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The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season commenced unexpectedly on January 16, when an unnamed subtropical storm formed off the northeastern U.S. coast then moved over Atlantic Canada. [41] Operationally, the NHC considered the storm to be non-tropical , with minimal likelihood of transitioning into a subtropical or tropical cyclone. [ 42 ]
The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season saw an above average number of named storms and an average number of hurricanes and major hurricanes (category 3 or higher on the 5-level Saffir–Simpson wind speed scale).
Tropical Storm Ophelia was a strong but short-lived tropical storm that impacted the East Coast of the United States in September 2023. The fifteenth named storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, Ophelia originated from a disturbance off the east coast of Florida before making landfall in North Carolina the next day as a strong tropical storm.
Hurricane Idalia was the only U.S. landfalling hurricane in 2023. It made landfall on August 30 as a Category 3 hurricane near Keaton Beach, Florida, before dumping rain across Florida, Georgia ...
A busy hurricane season that saw the National Hurricane Center in Miami issue the first-ever tropical storm warning for the coast of California and hurricane warnings as far north as Nova Scotia ...
Rafael was also the 11th hurricane of the season, well above the average of seven. This year has been an extremely active hurricane season, which meteorologists have credited in part to record ...
The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season began with competing forces: record-hot sea surface temperatures and a recently settled El Niño, a weather phenomenon that typically hampers storm activity.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) designated the system Tropical Depression 17 on Saturday morning, and it continued to pick up steam, becoming a named tropical storm at 5 p.m. EDT Saturday. It ...