3 unusual facts about the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season

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AccuWeather's Bernie Rayno shares three unusual facts about this year's hurricane season, which came to a close on Nov. 30.

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00:00and we'll see you next week.

00:09All right. The Atlantic

00:11hurricane season officially

00:13ended on Sunday. I want to

00:13take a look at the three

00:18unusual facts. About the 2024

00:20Atlantic hurricane season, and

00:22the number one unusual fact is

00:24there was a lack of a long

00:25track storm. What's a long

00:27track storm? A storm that

00:29occurred in the Gulf of Mexico

00:31in the early part of the year.

00:34There was only one so far, so

00:38for the season, and it was

00:40barrel. There's the long track

00:41here with barrel that came

00:43across the tropical Atlantic

00:44into the Caribbean into the

00:46Gulf of Mexico, then making

00:48landfall in Texas. All of the

00:50other storms were more

00:51homegrown development. And

00:52here's the thing about barrel.

00:54Look when it occurred. The long

00:55track storm occurred when you

00:56usually get homegrown

00:58development, and that's when

00:59you get homegrown development.

01:01And that's when you get

01:02hurricane season. This was the

01:04strongest Category five

01:06earliest Category five ever by

01:09about two weeks. Our number two

01:11unusual fact about this

01:13hurricane season was the low

01:13during the peak of the season,

01:17in particular. From mid August

01:18into the first week of

01:20September. Look at history. How

01:22you get the sharp incline or

01:24increase in name storms and

01:26hurricanes. Well, guess what?

01:27From mid August to the eighth

01:29of September, there was

01:30nothing. But then that leads

01:33us to our number three.

01:35Unusual fact the backloaded

01:38season from September 24th

01:40through the month of November,

01:42there was 11 named storms and

01:44seven hurricanes. The

01:45historical averages are five

01:47and three and then look at

01:48November. We have three named

01:49storms, including one

01:52hurricane. What normally

01:54happens in November, one name

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