Atlantic Has Seen 73 Days of Named Storms in 2023: Weather Watch

A busy storm season in the Atlantic is on Bloomberg Green’s radar today.

A member of the media films the storm hitting Market Wharf during post-tropical cyclone Lee in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada, on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. The Canadian Maritimes will take the hardest hit from Hurricane Lee, now officially a post-tropical cyclone with maximum winds of 80 miles per hour.Photographer: Galit Rodan/Bloomberg

The Atlantic has had 73 days in which a named storm has been spinning in its waters so far this year. This is the seventh most “named-storm days” on record through Sept. 25, Phil Klotzbach, lead author of the Colorado State University seasonal forecast, said in a social media post. Records go back to 1853.

This year trails behind 1933, 2005, 1995, 2020, 2004 and 2012.

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Atlantic Has Seen 73 Days of Named Storms in 2023: Weather Watch