That’s a milestone we tend to forget during storm-free years.
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Take a deep sigh of relief: December is the only tornado and hurricane-free month. Hurricane season runs from June 1st to November 30th. |
Not that there weren’t any storms out there.
The 2011 Hurricane Season is tied for the third busiest on record with 19 total storms, 7 of them hurricanes and 3 of them major hurricanes, i.e., Category 3 or higher.
What made it unremarkable in our collective psyche is that none of them made landfall in Florida. It’s now been six seasons since a hurricane strength storm made landfall in Florida.
Floridians have a love hate relationship with hurricane season:
“We could use the rain but not the wind” is commonly said. When it comes to fall rain that saying rarely holds true.
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Click on map to review Florida hurricane history storm by storm. Wilma (October 2005) was the last hurricane-strength storm to make landfall in Florida. |
This year it did.
But the reality is we usually get neither or both.
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