Hurricanes Are a Fact of Life

It’s now hurricane season in both Eastern Pacific (i.e. Mexico) and the Atlantic/Caribbean.

Mexico, where the season starts earlier, has already had two hurricanes, including Christina, the second powerful Category 4 (out of 5) hurricane of the season, which is now blowing at 130 knots. Like Amanda, which was the most powerful May Eastern Pacific hurricane on record, Christina is far offshore and not considered to be a threat to land. In addition, there was whimsy Tropical Storm Boris, which quickly fizzled offshore.

There has been no tropical storm activity in the Atlantic/Caribbean yet.

Just for kicks, we include the accompanying graphic of Eastern Pacific and Atlantic/Caribbean. For some reason, it’s all the hurricanes in the former region since 1948 and for the latter region since 1851. The ‘some reason’ may be they didn’t have records of Eastern Pacific storms before 1948.

And just for double kicks, we’ve included the NOAA graphic of all major hurricanes — Category 3, 4 or 5 — since those same dates.