The images, posted on Twitter via Gabthrough Darder, show flooding in the spaces of Hialeah, a city in Miami-Dade County, on November 9, you can see a car crossing the floodwaters at West 26th Place (Credit: Gabthrough Darder Storyful).
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – Just when you think it deserves to be back in the water, the unprecedented tropics go crazy.
Tropical Storm Eta is parked off the west coast of Cuba, throwing rain. When it nevertheless moves, PC models and human forecasters run out of words about their destiny and power.
Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Theta, which formed overnight and broke a record as the 29th typhoon in the Atlantic of the season, heads east toward Europe at the dawn of the hurricane state. of the year in December 1887, said Phil Klotzbach, a hurricane researcher at Colorado State University.
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But wait there’s more. A tropical wave that crosses the Atlantic has survived mid-November winds that usually behead storms. The formula now has a 70% chance of fitting into the storm with name number 30. It’s full on his already full board. If formed, it regularly targets the same Central American region that was affected by Eta.
Never before have three named storms passed in the year, Klotzbach said. Hurricane records date back to 1851, but before the satellite era, some storms were lost.
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“Someone didn’t give the tropics the memo in mid-November. This map doesn’t seem normal,” said Brian McNoldy, a hurricane researcher at the University of Miami. “Usually at this time of year the season is over. Now we have Typhoon 28, 29 and maybe 30 at the same time. ”
Overall, less than a typhoon bureaucracy in the Atlantic hurricane basin in November, but this year, said Mike Brennan, head of hurricane specialists at the hurricane center.
For now, the biggest risk and conundrum is Eta, who hit Nicaragua like a category four hurricane, killing more than a hundred people from Mexico to Panama. On Tuesday afternoon, it stayed north of the Yucatan Canal between Cuba and Mexico, with winds of 60 mph (95 km/h).
Eta continued to grow rivers and flood Cuba’s coastal spaces. Another 25,000 people were evacuated without any deaths, but the rains continued, with total accumulations of up to 63 centimeters (25 inches).
A car crosses the street flooded by heavy rains and winds as Tropical Storm Eta approaches South Florida in Miami, Florida, on November 9, 2020 (Photo via CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)
The rain continued to fall on Tuesday in South Florida, where they are expected to accumulate up to 23 inches. Eta made landfall slightly on Sunday night when he blew over Lower Matecumbe Caye on his way to the Gulf of Mexico, but the typhoon spilled water over the densely populated Monroe neighborhoods in Palm Beach counties. McNoldy posted more than 90 inches of rain at his Miami home this year, a record.
“Once the ground is saturated, the water has no space,” said Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis.
“Now I have fish in my backyard and it’s all hard,” said Troy Rodriguez, Davie’s resident.
Tropical Storm Eta brought strong winds and rain to Miami, Florida, last night and early morning on November 8 and 9. (Credit: David Sanhz Storyful)
The challenge with the Eta forecast is the lack of directional currents pushing or pulling a storm. Eta’s final trajectory is based on his strength, as strong storms target other parts of the atmosphere, scientists have said.
The National Hurricane Center said meteorologists had “little confidence in long-term trajectory forecasts. “
Eta’s PC-style track map looks like a “crushed spider,” Klotzbach said, referring to the many stretched lines that hint at his imaginable movement.
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The weaker the storm, the more it is expected to turn west after Thursday, driven by lower-level winds, but if it is stronger, it is more likely to head north or northeast, driven by deeper winds, McNoldy said.
For now, the middle of the hurricane expects the formula to move north, without appearing a separate turn, at least not quickly. The general message is that everyone in the region pay attention to Eta, Brennan said.
“The good news is that in the short term, it won’t move quickly,” Brennan said.
Previous studies have shown that hurricanes around the world move slower and slower, in all likelihood due to human-caused climate change, according to Jim Kossin, a meteorological and hurricane scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
So far this year, Eta, Zeta, Beta, Sally and Isaias have stagnated or slowed down, but it’s too early to tell if there’s a pattern, Brennan said.
When he made landfall in the Florida Keys, Eta was the fourth Greek alphabet called Storm to reach the United States, a record that, like Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game streak, may never beat again, Klotzbach said. , Delta and Beta.
The only thing missing from this strange hurricane season so far was a strange trail. Eta, with his already strange twists, adding the move from southwest Florida to Cuba, a track that is an inverted S-curve, now qualifies, Klotzbach said.
And if you think that when hurricane season officially ends on November 30, everything will stop, that’s not necessarily the case.
“We can see the activity bleeding in December, ” said Brennan. ” We’ve noticed it before. “
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Borenstein reported from Kensington, Maryland. Associated Press editors Adriana Gomez-Licon in Miami, Cody Jackson in Fort Lauderdale, Tamara Lush in St. Petersburg and Haleluya Hadero in Atlanta contributed to this report.