2007 Hurricane Season Off to Fast Start

Posted on June 2, 2007

Two early named storms Andrea and Barry have the 2007 hurricane season off to a very fast start. Here are a few seasons with early starts and how the rest of the season went.

1887 - 3 storms before July and 20 total for the season.
1908 - 2 storms before June but just 10 storms for the season.
1933 - 2 storms before July and 21 total for the season.
2003 - 3 storms before July and 21 total for the season.
2005 - 2 storms before July and 28 total for the season.

The fast start certainly does not mean that this will be a year like 2005 but it is interesting to see so much activity so quickly. One coming saying is that it "only takes one" -- meaning just one particularly strong hurricane can make for a bad hurricane season especially if it that one storm is an Andrew, Hugo or Katrina.

Below is a graph from NOAA that shows the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season is from mid-August to late October.

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