North Atlantic 2019 Hurricane Season Summary

[cycloneye]

 https://twitter.com/NHC_Atlantic/status/1201511751516188673

[EquusStorm]

The season map makes the total and complete lack of any Caribbean activity west of Puerto Rico/Hispaniola even more clear. With the exception of the first couple days of Michael in the far NW near the Yucatan Channel last year, the Caribbean has been oddly dead since 2017.

[Hammy]

The season map makes the total and complete lack of any Caribbean activity west of Puerto Rico/Hispaniola even more clear. With the exception of the first couple days of Michael in the far NW near the Yucatan Channel last year, the Caribbean has been oddly dead since 2017.

Western Caribbean interestingly has been fairly inactive after 2012--in fact 2016 was the only year after that to have any hurricanes there aside from the last few hours Michael was there.

[EquusStorm]

Good point, the 2016 canes are about it. Earl/Otto the only ones in the western part. Wonder if that's tied to any noticeable cycles or just sheer luck of the draw.

[SFLcane]

The season map makes the total and complete lack of any Caribbean activity west of Puerto Rico/Hispaniola even more clear. With the exception of the first couple days of Michael in the far NW near the Yucatan Channel last year, the Caribbean has been oddly dead since 2017.

Yeah the fact that the Caribbean was dead pretty much the whole 2010s is interesting to me.We haven't had anything big there since Gustav in 2008 and no consistent big activity since Wilma.

[aspen]

The season map makes the total and complete lack of any Caribbean activity west of Puerto Rico/Hispaniola even more clear. With the exception of the first couple days of Michael in the far NW near the Yucatan Channel last year, the Caribbean has been oddly dead since 2017.

Yeah the fact that the Caribbean was dead pretty much the whole 2010s is interesting to me.We haven't had anything big there since Gustav in 2008 and no consistent big activity since Wilma.

2016 was a pretty active year in the Caribbean: C1 Earl near the Yucatán Peninsula, C5 Matthew north of Aruba, and C3 Otto in the far SW Caribbean. Other than that, yeah, it’s been pretty dead aside from a few topical storms or minor hurricanes.

Edit: 2010 had three Cat 2s in the Caribbean (Paula, Richard, and Tomas), 2011 had Cat 3 Rina, and 2012 had Cat 2 Ernesto and Cat 3 Sandy. After that and with the exception of 2016, the Caribbean has been very inactive; Matthew was the strongest system anywhere within the region (145 kt/934 mbar) since Felix ‘07 (150 kt/929 mbar).

[TheStormExpert]

Also there were two clusters of storms this year. One with weak short-lived storms in the western Gulf, and another with the vast majority of this years storms including all three majors in the open Atlantic with the exception of Dorian being the big threat and hit to the Bahamas and the SE U.S. coastline.

[DioBrando]

Also there were two clusters of storms this year. One with weak short-lived storms in the western Gulf, and another with the vast majority of this years storms including all three majors in the open Atlantic with the exception of Dorian being the big threat and hit to the Bahamas and the SE U.S. coastline.

God tier: Lorenzo
Top tier: Humberto
Good tier: Jerry
Euroboo tier: Gabrielle, Pablo
Subtropical tier: Andrea, Melissa, Rebekah
Speedy Gonzalez tier: Barry, Fernand, Olga, Nestor, Imelda
"I need to speak to the manager" tier: Karen
"Who?" tier: all other systems not mentioned
Dorian tier: Dorian

[DioBrando]

Looks like:

Major hurricanes: Exotic boys
Non-major hurricanes: Older men
Tropical storms: Girls and French boys

Coincidence. Would have been wonderful to at least see a female get hurricane status