2011 "above normal" in both ATL and EPAC

[Chacor]

MONTHLY TROPICAL WEATHER SUMMARY
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
800 AM EST THU DEC 1 2011

FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...

ONE TROPICAL STORM...SEAN...FORMED DURING THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER. ON
AVERAGE...A NAMED STORM FORMS DURING NOVEMBER ABOUT ONCE EVERY
OTHER YEAR.

TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY IN THE ATLANTIC BASIN DURING 2011 WAS
ABOVE AVERAGE. THERE WERE 19 TROPICAL STORMS...INCLUDING AN UNNAMED
STORM DURING SEPTEMBER THAT WAS ADDED DURING THE ROUTINE POST-
ANALYSIS OF DATA FROM THE SEASON. POST-ANALYSIS ALSO REVEALED
THAT NATE REACHED HURRICANE STRENGTH DURING ITS LIFETIME. OF THE 19
STORMS...7 BECAME HURRICANES...AND 3 BECAME MAJOR HURRICANES. ONE
TROPICAL DEPRESSION ALSO FORMED THAT DID NOT REACH TROPICAL STORM
STRENGTH. THE LONG-TERM AVERAGES FOR THE BASIN ARE 11 NAMED
STORMS...6 HURRICANES AND 2 MAJOR HURRICANES. IN TERMS OF
ACCUMULATED CYCLONE ENERGY...ACE...WHICH MEASURES THE COMBINED
STRENGTH AND DURATION OF TROPICAL STORMS AND HURRICANES...2011 WAS
ABOVE NORMAL...WITH A VALUE OF 132 PERCENT OF THE LONG-TERM MEDIAN.

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MONTHLY TROPICAL WEATHER SUMMARY
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
800 AM PST THU DEC 1 2011

FOR THE EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC...EAST OF 140 DEGREES WEST LONGITUDE..

ONE NAMED STORM FORMED DURING THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER...KENNETH...
WHICH BECAME A RARE LATE-SEASON MAJOR HURRICANE. ON AVERAGE...SINCE
THE BEGINNING OF THE SATELLITE ERA IN 1971...A HURRICANE FORMS IN
THE BASIN DURING NOVEMBER ONLY ABOUT ONCE EVERY 10 YEARS. KENNETH
WAS THE LATEST OBSERVED MAJOR HURRICANE ON RECORD IN THE BASIN IN
THE SATELLITE ERA.

DURING THE 2011 EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC HURRICANE SEASON 11 NAMED
STORMS FORMED...OF WHICH 10 BECAME HURRICANES AND 6 BECAME MAJOR
HURRICANES. TWO TROPICAL DEPRESSIONS ALSO FORMED THAT DID NOT REACH
TROPICAL STORM STRENGTH. THE LONG-TERM AVERAGES ARE 15 NAMED
STORMS...9 HURRICANES AND 4 MAJOR HURRICANES. FOR 2011 THE NUMBER
OF NAMED STORMS WAS BELOW THE LONG-TERM AVERAGE...THE NUMBER OF
HURRICANES WAS NEAR AVERAGE...AND THE NUMBER OF MAJOR HURRICANES
WAS ABOVE AVERAGE. IN TERMS OF ACCUMULATED CYCLONE ENERGY...ACE...
WHICH MEASURES THE COMBINED STRENGTH AND DURATION OF TROPICAL STORMS
AND HURRICANES...ACTIVITY IN THE BASIN WAS ABOVE NORMAL...WITH A
VALUE OF 120 PERCENT OF THE LONG-TERM MEDIAN.

Despite the preseason forecasts, the EPac managed to come in with an above average season, mostly thanks to the 6 (!) major hurricanes.

[CrazyC83]

Those 6 majors (could it become 7 in December?) has to be a record for a non-El Nino year.

If you combined the two sets of numbers, you'd have what would normally be reasonable combined totals for active years, but the distribution was so insane...the Atlantic put out so many storms but most failed to do much, while the EPAC struggled to get stuff going, but what did develop blossomed big time.