AccuWeather meteorologists said on Tuesday that a tropical depression, the windy cyclone that sets the stage for a hurricane, could form in just a matter of days, far off Florida’s Gulf Coast.
This tropical depression kicks off the 2022 hurricane season which begins on June 1 and ends on Nov. 30.
The exhausting 182 days see an average of 10.1 named storms—Alex and Fiona are two possibilities this year—with an average of six of the 10 becoming hurricanes.
Hurricanes are Rated by Strength
Category 1: Winds 74 to 95 mph;
Category 2: Winds 96 to 110 mph;
Category 3: 111 to 130 mph;
Category 4: Winds 131 to 155 mph;
Category 5: Winds greater than 155 mph.
While the greater number of tragic hurricanes have not landed in the U.S., the country has seen its fair share of destruction caused by the mighty storms such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which caused roughly $150 billion in damages and an estimated 1,800 deaths, and Hurricane Maria in 2017, which claimed at least 2,982 lives….