A Hornet of Hurricanes
Multiple hurricanes have hit America this month,some causing lasting damages to the states.
Makayla Allen ([email protected])
Hurricane Harvey brought devastating damage to Texas generating about 24.5 trillion gallons of water that fell on Southeast Texas and southern Louisiana. In Florida, Irma was a category 4 by the time it hit and caused billions of dollars worth of damage and Katia was category 1 when it hit Mexico. Also, Jose and Maria are on the rise toward the United States. Usually these types of hurricanes would've been reported over a couple of years. However, these five hurricanes came in the span of one month. Harvey was the first of five hurricanes spotted on August 13th, 2017 by NOAA GOES east satellite as a possible tropical depression on the 9th and officially became a hurricane on August 17th. Harvey then rapidly started forming into a category 4 making landfall on Friday, August 25th and ended on September 3rd in Texas. During Harvey another hurricane was brewing and upgraded to a category 3 on August 31st, called Irma. Irma made landfall in Key West, Florida on Sunday, September 10th, only seven days after Harvey ceased, but on September 9th Katia hit Mexico.
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According to The Miami Herald a team of Florida International University researchers evaluated the cost of damage to be around $19.4 billion. Just when people thought the storms had passed two more hurricanes began emerging named Jose and Maria. When hurricane Irma was ravaging through the Caribbean Jose formed, data from an Air Force Hurricane Hunter plane divulges that hurricane Jose became a category 4 on Friday September 8, then Jose aimed for New York. On September 21 hurricane Jose changed into a tropical storm but on the same exact date Maria hit in Puerto Rico as a category 4 and the winds are still raging.
A satellite image of Hurricane Irma, followed closley behind by Hurricane Jose
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