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Intense hurricane seasons like this year will be common in the upcoming decades. |
The hurricane season that ended on November 30th, 2005 broke all records in number of named storms, intensity and behavior and it is considered the most active ever recorded in the Atlantic and in the hurricane history. |
Experts of NOAA warn to the people living in the Atlantic coast, the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico to be alert because the next hurricane 2006 season could be as intense as 2005. |
As a matter of fact they explained that at least in the next 2 or 3 decades the hurricane seasons will maintain an intense activity. |
Doctor Conrad Lautenbacher director of NOAA said "I would like to forecast a mild hurricane season for 2006 but I just can't do that. This year in the Atlantic basin formed twice tropical systems than in one single season. The historic trends indicate that the atmospheric patterns, the temperature of the sea, lower wind shear and other factors probably will force another above normal storm season for 2006". |
This year the Atlantic basin registered the most active season ever recorded, 26 named storms against the 21 formed in 1933. |
The hurricane season 2005 went beyond the forecast of the expert meteorologists and not all the storms followed the computer models used to track the hurricanes. |
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Hurricane season 2005 in numbers |
26 named tropical storms |
13 hurricanes, 5 of them reached the categories 4 and 5 in the Saffir-Simpson scale |
1,200 estimated fatalities in the United States due to the hurricane Katrina which was one of the most catastrophic in history. |
62 victims caused "Dennis" in the Caribbean and the United States in July when the season just started. |
2,000 victims because of "Stan" in Guatemala and Mexico, it produced huge floodings in the Mexican states of Veracruz, Chiapas, Oaxaca and Guatemala. |
US$15 billions in damages caused Wilma in Mexico and the United States, the fatalities are lower compared to another hurricanes of this season (estimated a total of 55 in Jamaica, Mexico and Florida). |
173 miles per hour were the maximum winds reached by the three category five hurricanes when landed. |
U.S. property/casualty insurers are expected to pay an estimated $6.1 billion to Florida policyholders for insured property losses from Hurricane Wilma, pushing year-to-date catastrophe losses to $50.3 billion — an all-time record, according to preliminary analysis by ISO’s Property Claim Services (PCS) unit.
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The year’s three most devastating hurricanes — Katrina, Rita and Wilma — together account for $45.2 billion, or 90 percent, of the total catastrophe loss from 22 events.
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