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TWSAT
Monthly Tropical Weather Summary
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
800 AM EDT Sun Sep 1 2024
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Tropical cyclone activity this August was a little below normal in
terms of the number of named storms, but closer to normal in terms
of hurricane formations. In total, two hurricanes, Debby and
Ernesto, formed in the basin in August. Based on a 30-year
climatology (1991-2020), between 3-4 named storms typically develop
in August, with 1-2 of them becoming hurricanes. A major hurricane
typically forms in August every 1 to 2 years.
Debby made landfall in Florida in the Big Bend region as a Category
1 hurricane before moving off the eastern U.S. coastline and
making another landfall as a tropical storm in South Carolina.
Ernesto affected the northern Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico with
tropical storm conditions, while later moving directly over
Bermuda as a Category 1 hurricane.
In terms of Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE), which measures the
strength and duration of tropical storms and hurricanes, activity in
the basin so far in 2024 is about 50 percent above the long-term
(1991-2020) mean.
Reports on individual cyclones, when completed, are available at the
National Hurricane Center website at
www.hurricanes.gov/data/tcr/index.php?season=2024&basin=atl
Summary Table
Name Dates Max Wind (mph)
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TS Alberto 19-20 Jun 50
MH Beryl 28 Jun-9 Jul 165
TS Chris 30 Jun-1 Jul 45*
H Debby 3-9 Aug 80
H Ernesto 12-20 Aug 100
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Dates are based on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
* Denotes a storm for which the post-storm analysis is complete.
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