Residents survey damage and cleanup following Hurricane Francine Thursday, September 12, 2024, in Berwick, La. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season is now considered to be "extremely active," making it the 11th season in more than 50 years to reach hyperactive classification. The designation, created by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has been used a handful of times since hurricane researchers starting using satellite data in 1966, according to Philip Klotzbach, a hurricane researcher at Colorado State University.
Other extremely active Atlantic hurricane seasons were recorded in 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2017 and 2020. Klotzbach said this year is above normal in most of the metrics scientists use to determine a season's severity: There have been a high number of named storms, many of which have reached hurricane and major hurricane strength, and many of those have made landfall. "What really has stood out to me about this season has been just how odd it has been," Klotzbach said.
"While we've gotten to hyperactive, it certainly wasn't a 'normal' hyperactive season." A busy end to hurricane season While the Atlantic's most active month is historically September, followed by August, this season's was October, followed by July, according to Klotzbach. The busy end in particular, with a record-breaking number of named storms formed after Sept.
24, helped to push it into the.
