Not Another Hurricane!

Hurricane fatigue is quickly replacing COVID fatigue in America.  The latest tropical cyclone to form is Zeta, expected to be a hurricane or a strong tropical storm when it makes landfall this week . . . in Louisiana, a state that has already seen four tropical systems make landfall there his year.

If Biden is elected President, Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards should become his FEMA administrator.  He already has the experience.

This storm will be a repeat of Delta, which hit Louisiana and ended up causing a lot of rain for New Jersey.  Zeta will follow the same course.

And that's not all.  The Global Forecast System, you may recall, predicted a hurricane that would affect the New York area today, October 26.  That isn't happening, of course, but it's been stubbornly predicting that some sort of tropical system will affect the East Coast in the first half of November.  One projection showed a storm hitting the New York City area with bull's-eye precision on Saturday, November 7.  Subsequent runs have taken that off the table, but they have still been showing a storm coming out of the Caribbean and possibly affecting Florida before going either out to sea or moving up the I-95 corridor into the Carolinas by November 10, suggesting that the storm could affect the Northeast in time for Veterans' Day.  Funny, though, how the GFS is always projecting a hurricane affecting the East Coat sixteen days from whenever I look at it . . .  

Ten tropical cyclones will have made landfall in the U.S. this year, a new record - four of them, as noted, in Louisiana.  Zeta will make it five and eleven, respectively.  Zeta is the 27th named storm of 2020, bringing it behind only the 2005 season, which had 28 named storms.  (I might have said on this blog that the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season had 26 named storms.  I was wrong, but not as wrong as we will be if we guess that this season won't tie or break that record. 😨 )