Beginning on June 1, the hurricane season ended on November 30. Forecasters had said it was very active, it was.
“It's a record season in terms of the number of cyclones, very active in Central America, the USA and near Bermuda,” indicates the Antilles-Guyana interregional department of Météo France. 30 phenomena (17 tropical storms and 13 hurricanes including 6 major ones) were named this year including 10 in September. This year and for the fifth year in a row, above average activity has been observed. "In view of the databases starting in 1851, no cyclone season in the Atlantic has counted so many cyclones (tropical depression, tropical storm or hurricane)", notes Météo France, the previous record for the number of named cyclones, was from 28 in 2005. "The 1981-2010 normal is on average 12 tropical cyclones called… 6 tropical storms and 6 hurricanes, of which 2 or 3 reach the stage of major hurricane", recalls Météo France.
However, the season was very calm in the Lesser Antilles with only 3 moderate tropical storms and 0 hurricanes. “During the usual peak of the season in September, none of the 10 named cyclones came close. The births off the coast of Africa, then the upwelling towards the central Atlantic even limited the passage of tropical waves and September was finally calm and sunny, with many days of failure of the trade winds. The only cyclonic episode of interest for the French islands was the passage of the moderate tropical storm Laura which resulted in locally intense rains (but without very important accumulations) accompanied by gusts between 80 and 100km / h on the all of our territories. (soualigapost.com)
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