Hurricane Season 2018 – Fusion Nepal

Late Monday night, Hurricane Florence — the Category 4 storm barreling toward the East Coast of the U.S. — decided to replace its eyewall. And it’s threatening to do so again.

This dramatic-sounding event tends to make major hurricanes even stronger, and larger, explained Chris Slocum, a storm researcher specializing in the inner-core processes of hurricanes at Colorado State University.

But how does such an atmospheric event unfold for any storm, let alone the ominous Hurricane Florence with extreme winds forecast to blow just off the coast of the Carolinas late Thursday?

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Well folks, we officially have our first major Atlantic hurricane of the 2018 season.

Early Wednesday afternoon the National Hurricane Center announced that Hurricane Florence, a storm brewing 2,205 miles off the coast of Bermuda, has intensified into a major storm.

A hurricane is considered “major” or intense when wind speeds exceed 111 mph, which means it’s at least a Category 3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

“This is almost exactly on target,” NOAA representative Dennis Feltgen said in an interview. “The typical day to see the first major hurricane is September 4. It’s September 5.” Read more…

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