Atlantic Hurricane Season: Hurricane Larry becomes twelfth named Tropical Storm

Hurricane Larry is following hot on the heals of the destructive Hurricane Ida and while it may not hit land, the east coast of the United States could experience significant swells and high surf this week, according to the National Weather Service.

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As of Monday September 6, Larry was about 1,000 miles east-northeast of the Northern Leeward Islands in the Caribbean Sea.  

While the storm probably wouldn’t make it to the U.S. East Coast, the National Weather Service said “significant” swells and waves should reach much of the coast by midweek with conditions “likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions.”

After Hurricane Ida rampaged through the Caribbean and then cut a destructive path along the eastern United States from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast, meteorologists began watching Hurricane Larry as it formed in the Atlantic.

Satellite image of Hurricane Larry (c) NOAA

“All of the models were in general agreement that Larry would become a major hurricane ,” said NOAA’s National Hurricane Center.

Destructive Ida

Hurricane Ida was the ninth named storm, fourth hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season and originated from a tropical wave in the Caribbean Sea that developed into a tropical depression on August 26.

Ida was the second-most damaging hurricane to strike the U.S. state of Louisiana on record, behind only Hurricane Katrina which struck the same area in 2005.  Before slamming into the US, Hurricane Ida also left a path of damage in the Cayman Islands and Cuba.

Parts of Louisiana and Mississippi have been left devastated by Ida, which flooded communities, knocked out power lines and littered roads with debris before moving east and bringing major flooding to New York and other areas on the eastern seaboard.

In between Ida and Larry, Tropical Storm Julian and Tropical Storm Kate formed and dissipated last week in what is turning out to be an active hurricane season.

And in the Pacific . . .

While all this was happening in the Atlantic, Hurricane Nora, which became a Category 1 Hurricane on August 28 brought rain, flash floods and mudslides to coastal areas of western Mexico before moving inland and weakening.

Hurricane Larry (c) NOAA

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