The National Hurricane Center has been hard at work issuing tropical cyclone advisories every day since August 11, except for a two day break between Hurricane Henri and when Hurricane Ida formed on August 26.
The steady train of storms ramped up right on schedule when the season typically picks up mid to late August and stayed active through the busiest average month in September.
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October can result in a second peak of intense hurricanes that tend to focus around the Florida Gulf coast.
Major storms like Wilma in 2005 and 2016′s Category 5 Hurricane Matthew are all examples of dangerous October Gulf hurricanes.
Eleven major hurricanes of Category 3 or higher have made a Florida landfall in October since 1851.
The pattern appears to remain quiet the next few days but models indicate some activity may develop the second week in October along the mid-Atlantic coast and north of the Caribbean.
Just look at the activity last year when four named storms developed in October, three of which became hurricanes, and two of those were major hurricanes. All of these totals were in the top five for October since 1981.
So it’s not over until the calendar reads November 30...the official end of hurricane season. IT will be remembered for the third-most active Atlantic hurricane season on record. But with just over a month and a half left it has time to jump the ranks.