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 This page will be updated through the 2010 Hurricane Season with news, information and useful resources related to hurricane preparedness and response.
Last update: December 1st
NOAA sums up 2010 hurricane season
In the Atlantic Basin a total of 19 named storms formed – tied with 1887 and 1995 for the third highest on record.
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Last update: September 14th
Watching Igor
Igor now a major hurricane and heading for Bermuda.
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August 31st:
Get ready for Earl
As Hurricane Earl approaches, FEMA urges east coast businesses to be prepared.
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Atlantic Hurricane Season steps up a gear
Forecasters tracking Hurricane Danielle; and second hurricane likely to follow in its wake.
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August 4th: President declares major disaster for Texas
FEMA has announced that federal aid has been made available for Texas to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by Hurricane Alex beginning on June 30, 2010, and continuing.
Bradley M. Harris was named as the Federal Coordinating Officer for Federal recovery operations in the affected area.
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=52303
July 2: FEMA continues to support Texas in aftermath of Hurricane Alex
As Tropical Storm Alex moves further inland and begins to weaken FEMA and its federal, state and local partners remain vigilant and continue to monitor for any related threats of flooding or tornadoes in Texas.
July 1:
FEMA Prepares For Landfall Of Hurricane Alex
FEMA Fully Engaged And Coordinating With Texas In Hurricane Alex Emergency Preparedness
Red Cross Moving Supplies and Workers to South Texas
President declares emergency for Texas
FEMA has announced that an emergency exists in the state of Texas and that federal aid is available to supplement state and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from Tropical Storm Alex beginning on June 27, 2010, and continuing.
Federal funding is available to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives and to protect property and public health and safety, and to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in the counties of Aransas, Atascosa, Bee, Bexar, Brooks, Cameron, Comal, Duval, Guadalupe, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Kenedy, Kleberg, Live Oak, McMullen, Medina, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, Starr, Webb, Willacy, Wilson, and Zapata.
Specifically, FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency. Emergency protective measures, limited to direct federal assistance, will be provided at 75 percent federal funding.
Bradley Harris has been named as the Federal Coordinating Officer for federal recovery operations in the affected area.
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=52013
August 6 2010 The Atlantic Basin remains on track for an active hurricane season, according to the scheduled seasonal outlook update issued by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Weather Service. With the season’s peak just around the corner – late August through October – the need for preparedness plans is essential, and there is no room for complacency
NOAA also announced today that, as predicted last spring, La Niña has formed in the tropical Pacific Ocean. This favors lower wind shear over the Atlantic Basin, allowing storm clouds to grow and organize. Other climate factors pointing to an active hurricane season are warmer-than-average water in the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean, and the tropical multi-decadal signal, which since 1995 has brought favorable ocean and atmospheric conditions in unison, leading to more active seasons.
“August heralds the start of the most active phase of the Atlantic hurricane season and with the meteorological factors in place, now is the time for everyone living in hurricane prone areas to be prepared,” said Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D., under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator.
Across the entire Atlantic Basin for the whole season – June 1 to November 30 – NOAA’s updated outlook is projecting, with a 70 percent probability, a total of (including Alex, Bonnie and Colin):
* 14 to 20 Named Storms (top winds of 39 mph or higher), including:
* 8 to 12 Hurricanes (top winds of 74 mph or higher), of which:
* 4 to 6 could be Major Hurricanes (Category 3, 4 or 5; winds of at least 111 mph)
These ranges are still indicative of an active season, compared to the average of 11 named storms, six hurricanes and two major hurricanes; however, the upper bounds of the ranges have been lowered from the initial outlook in late May, which reflected the possibility of even more early season activity.
“All indications are for considerable activity during the next several months,” said Gerry Bell, Ph.D., lead seasonal hurricane forecaster at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. “As we’ve seen in past years, storms can come on quickly during the peak months of the season. There remains a high likelihood that the season could be very active, with the potential of being one of the more active on record.”
The latest Met Office forecast confirms the North Atlantic tropical storm season looks set to be active this year.
The Met Office prediction of 20 tropical storms between July and November, with a 70% chance that the number will be in the range 13 to 27, is well above the 1990–2005 long-term average of 12.4.
The Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) index is a measure of the storm lifetimes and intensities as well as total numbers over a season. This year’s most likely ACE index is 204, with a 70% chance that the index will be in the range 90 to 319 — this is again well above the 1990–2005 average of 131.
This would make it one of the most active tropical storm seasons on record. In the last 40 years, only 2005 has seen more storms in the July to November period with 25 recorded, and only three seasons (1995, 2004 and 2005) have recorded a higher ACE index than 204.
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Atlantic Hurricane Season expected to be worse than initially forecasted: Colorado State University
Colorado State University has changed its initial prediction; now says it will be a very active 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season.
Read article•Date: 8th June 2010
• Last update: 1st Dec 2010 • Region: Various •Topic: 2010 Hurricane Season
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UPDATED 1st DECEMBER 2010
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