If Atlanta experiences a direct hit by a Hurricane it will be one large enough to wipe out the United States.
Florida will almost certainly be hit be a tropical storm or hurricane in the future, perhaps even this year. But it is impossible to say when or when in the state it will hit. The only active Atlantic hurricane at this time, Irene, is not expected to hit Florida.
The storm named Allison never became a hurricane, it was just a tropical storm. A hurricane/tropical storm name is retired if the storm is especially devastating, and Tropical Storm Allison of 2001 caused massive damage from flooding. Because of this no future storm will be named Allison (normally a name is reused every 6 years). So instead the first tropical storm in the Atlantic in 2007 was named Andrea.
It is unlikely that Tropical Whitney will occur anytime in the near future. Storms in a year are named in alphabetical order, and only 1 season has made it to a named with "W." Even if Whitney does form, there is no way of predicting when.
As of November 3, 2012 there are no active hurricanes anywhere in the world, though Tropical Depression Rosa (formerly a tropical storm) is dissipating in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Though there will certainly be hurricanes in the future no hurricane development is expected in the next few days But beyond that we can't make any accurate predictions.
No. There are no record of any hurricane or tropical storm named Mikalya, nor does the name appear in any lists of currently available names.
As of my last update, there has not been a hurricane named Tyler in the Atlantic basin or Eastern Pacific basin. Hurricane names are predetermined and recycled every few years, so a future hurricane may be named Tyler.
To a limited degree, yes. Meteorologists track tropical weather systems and analyze them to determine how likely they are to develop into tropical cyclones (tropical depressions, tropical storms, or hurricanes). By looking at conditions in and around a tropical cyclone scientists can estimated where a hurricane will probably go and how strong it will likely be. However, predictions more than 5 days into the future lose accuracy rapidly.
Yes, Hurricane Irene was retired from the list of Atlantic tropical cyclone names after it caused significant damage and loss of life in 2011. It was replaced with a new name for future use in the Atlantic basin.
Not really. While the path Hurricane Andrew took was not unusual, it it impossible to make accurate predictions on a hurricane's path more than about a week into the future. So when Andrew first became a tropical storm, nobody knew quite where it would go.
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