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Monthly Tropical Weather Summary
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
800 AM EDT Sun Sep 1 2024

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:

Tropical cyclone activity this August was a little below normal in 
terms of the number of named storms, but closer to normal in terms 
of hurricane formations. In total, two hurricanes, Debby and 
Ernesto, formed in the basin in August. Based on a 30-year 
climatology (1991-2020), between 3-4 named storms typically develop 
in August, with 1-2 of them becoming hurricanes. A major hurricane 
typically forms in August every 1 to 2 years. 

Debby made landfall in Florida in the Big Bend region as a Category 
1 hurricane before moving off the eastern U.S. coastline and 
making another landfall as a tropical storm in South Carolina. 
Ernesto affected the northern Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico with 
tropical storm conditions, while later moving directly over 
Bermuda as a Category 1 hurricane.

In terms of Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE), which measures the 
strength and duration of tropical storms and hurricanes, activity in 
the basin so far in 2024 is about 50 percent above the long-term 
(1991-2020) mean. 

Reports on individual cyclones, when completed, are available at the 
National Hurricane Center website at
www.hurricanes.gov/data/tcr/index.php?season=2024&basin=atl

Summary Table

Name                     Dates               Max Wind (mph)
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TS Alberto              19-20 Jun                 50
MH Beryl             28 Jun-9 Jul                165
TS Chris     30 Jun-1 Jul                 45*
H  Debby                  3-9 Aug                 80
H  Ernesto              12-20 Aug                100
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Dates are based on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
* Denotes a storm for which the post-storm analysis is complete.

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Hurricane Specialist Unit