Despite a pause for much of July, and another at the end of August that lasted into the first week of September, the 2024 tropical cyclone season in the North Atlantic ended up being quite a busy affair, thanks in a large part to a very active September & October, and of course SSTSST Sea Surface Temperatures in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico being at all time record highs.
I haven’t examined all the forecasts that predicted a record breaking season, but I’m sure that 2024 ended up being a bit of a disappointment, despite the record SST.
As far as the raw statistics of the matter were concerned I made it
â—¾The joint 5th for number (two category 5)
â—¾The 22nd for total ACEACE Accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) is a metric used by various agencies to express the energy released by a tropical cyclone during its lifetime. It is calculated by summing the square of a tropical cyclone's maximum sustained winds, measured every six hours. The resulting total can be divided by 10,000 to make it more manageable, or added to other totals in order to work out a total for a particular group of storms. (162.5)
â—¾The 31st for total longevity (99 days)
â—¾The 54th for total distance (27,127 NM)
All data is of course provisional until the HURDAT2 data series is updated next spring.
