DorkyMcDorkface wrote:toad strangler wrote:
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August 2023 has nothing to do with this year or any other year probably since the dinosaurs.
Something else that should probably be mentioned is that it's not like each of those crayons resulted in a parade of hurricanes. Only the Caribbean one ended up becoming a significant system in Franklin
(and even then it was a disorganized TS in the Caribbean proper). Excluding that one, from left to right you had Harold, Gert, Emily and Jose, all of which maxed out at TS intensity, and the only one that actually peaked in the MDR ended up being Emily which was sheared slop. So while yes, the Atlantic was rife with activity around that time most of it was weak and/or short-lived rather than ACE-gobbling long trackers.
Lifespans of the storms shown here:
- Emily: 1.25 days as TS, peak 45 kt
- Franklin: 12.5 days as TC, 12.25 days as TS+, 6.25 days as H, 2 days as MH, peak 130 kt
- Gert Part 1: 3.25 days as TC, 1 day as TS, peak 35 kt (It regenerated later, and spent another 3.75 days as TC and 2.75 days as TS, with peak 50 kt)
- Harold: 1.75 days as TC, 0.75 days as TS, peak 50 kt
- Yellow AOI to the east: 0 days