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2017 Hurricane Season Officially Over

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Hurricane worries are done with for now.

The 2017 hurricane comes to an end today and it will go down as one of the most active seasons we have seen.  Hurricanes Nate and Tropical Storms Cindy and Harvey made landfall in Louisiana this year.  State Climatologist Barry Keim says overall, many records going back 167 years were tied.

 

Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria made huge impacts on the U.S. and Puerto Rico this year.  Keim says the U.S. mainland had escaped devastating impacts for quite a while.

 

Keim says the 17 named storms are the most we’ve seen since 2005 and there are a couple of factors on why the tropics were active.