Active 2012 Hurricane Season Filled with Oddities

 

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2012 Hurricane Season Filled with Oddities

Chris Dolce and Jon Erdman Updated: Sep 11, 2012, 4:18 PM EDT weather.com

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Active 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season

The 2012 Atlantic hurricane season has been a busy one so far. The season-to-date statistics have far outpaced the long-term averages since 1966.
On average, we don't reach the sixth named storm of the season until September 8. In 2012, we've already had more than double this number with a total of thirteen named storms. The number of hurricanes so far this season (seven) already almost equals the average number of hurricanes (eight) in an entire season during the current active era from 1995 to 2011.
From a fast start to a July lull and a record-tying August, we've seen many oddities in the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season. Let's step through these beginning with the 2012 "preseason" storms.

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