In a typical year, low water levels on the river begin to abate around early December, said Jeff Graschel, a National Weather Service hydrologist at the Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center in Slidell, La. Data shows that hurricanes have become stronger worldwide during the past four decades. The links between hurricanes and climate change have become clearer with each passing year.
For the past two years, meteorologists have exhausted the list of names used to identify storms during the Atlantic hurricane season, an occurrence that has happened only one other time, in 2005. Last year, there were 21 named storms, after a record 30 in 2020. Three to five of those could strengthen into what NOAA calls major hurricanes - Category 3 or stronger - with winds of at least 111 m.p.h. 30 - could see 14 to 20 named storms, with six to 10 turning into hurricanes that sustain winds of at least 74 miles per hour. In it, they predicted that the season - which runs through Nov. In early August, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued an updated forecast for the rest of the season, which still called for an above-normal level of activity. 1 and none in August, the first time that has happened since 1997.
There were only three named storms before Sept. Ian, which lregained hurricane strength before making landfall in South Carolina, followed a relatively quiet start to the Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June through November. Ian barreled across the state as a powerful Category 4 storm, destroying neighborhoods and infrastructure, unleashing floods, wiping out power and killing at least 120 people, according to state and local officials. Julia formed 10 days after Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida. Show moreĪ worker covering a gasoline pump after Hurricane Julia hit the coasts in Bluefields, Nicaragua, on Saturday night. Storm activity picked up in early September with Danielle and Earl, which formed within a day of each other, and Ian, which formed on Sept. Ian, which later regained hurricane strength before making landfall in South Carolina, followed a relatively quiet start to the Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June through November. The storm formed just 10 days after Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida, barreling across the state as a powerful Category 4 storm, destroying neighborhoods and infrastructure, unleashing floods, wiping out power and killing at least 120 people, according to state and local officials. On Sunday morning, the hurricane made landfall in Nicaragua before weakening and becoming a tropical storm, bringing with it heavy rains.
On Sunday night, it was reported that it had started to rain again in the region.Įlsewhere in the region, a tropical storm, Julia, strengthened to a hurricane and set off flash flooding and mudslides in parts of Central America over the weekend.Ĭolombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, said on Twitter that Julia had left two injured, two houses destroyed and 101 damaged on the Colombian island of San Andres.
“The effects of the climate crisis are causing this tragedy,” Ms. This is ordinarily Venezuela’s rainy season, but it has been especially bad this year. His vice president said the government would provide shelter for victims, support for damaged businesses and aid to farmers who lost crops. On Sunday, Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, declared the area a disaster zone and announced three days of national mourning. Some 20,000 homes throughout the surrounding Santos Michelena municipality were affected, according to the Red Cross in Aragua State. Cellphone service, already spotty in the region, was almost wiped out by the storm. Overflowing streams carried away trees and electricity poles, and damaged homes and businesses. The rains began late Saturday afternoon, and intensified throughout the night. Yuri Cortez/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images
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