One month into the Atlantic Hurricane season and there have been three named storms, with two reaching tropical cyclone status while in the eastern Pacific, two storms have already been named according to the USA’s National Hurricane Center.

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Atlantic Hurricane Season

Cindy, the third named storm of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season, took shape on Friday June 23, but began to fade within days.  The National Hurricane Center said it was monitoring the storm for the low chance it might be redevelop into a potential tropical cyclone.

By the Sunday night, the storm’s remnants had weakened but it was giving the remnants a 30 percent chance of formation in the next seven days.

Cindy was trailing Tropical Storm Bret, which dissipated on Saturday June 24 after damaging homes and sending more than 120 people to shelters in the Lesser Antilles islands of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The National Hurricane Center described the storm as “barely a tropical cyclone”.

Meanwhile Cindy was actually the fourth tropical cyclone to reach tropical storm strength this year.

The Hurricane Center announced in May that it had reassessed a storm that formed off the Northeastern United States in mid-January and determined that it was a subtropical storm, making it the Atlantic’s first cyclone of the year.

However, the storm was not retroactively given a name, making Arlene, which formed in the Gulf of Mexico on June 2, the first named storm in the Atlantic basin this year.

The Atlantic hurricane season started on June 1 and runs through Nov. 30.

Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season

Meanwhile off Mexico’s western (Pacific) coast, Hurricane Adrian became the first hurricane of the eastern Pacific hurricane season on Wednesday June 28, off Mexico’s western coast.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Adrian had sustained winds of 80 mph (130 kph). The storm was expected to weaken again to a tropical storm and keep heading out to sea.

Following hot on the heals of Adrian, Tropical Storm Beatriz formed off Mexico’s southern Pacific coast on Thursday June 29 and strengthened into a category 1 storm by the Friday with 85mph winds. As it reached the western coast of Mexico, the storm disappated with just the remnants reaching the Baja Peninsula at the start of this week.

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Related News:

• Remnants of Cindy could Redevelop – New York Times
• Adrian becomes the first hurricane of the eastern Pacific season off of Mexico’s west coast – Local10.com
• Tropical Storm Bret impacts Lesser Antilles – Noonsite.com

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Related Links:

• Noonsite Cruising Resources:  Weather
• NOAA National Hurricane Center
• NOAA Climate Prediction Center
• UK Met Office
• Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale
• Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
• Yale Climate Connections

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