The fatalities are estimated at 161.
The 2021 hurricane season in the Atlantic basin that officially concludes this Tuesday resulted in 21 named storms, of which seven became hurricanes and of these four were major hurricanes, far from the 2020 records but well above average. of the last 30 years.
According to specialized media, 2021 is the third year with the most named storms since 1851 and the fourth with the greatest damage for that reason (70,543 million dollars).
The fatalities are estimated at 161.
Of the 2021 hurricanes, three reached category 1 on the Saffir-Simpson scale (from 1 to 5), with winds of up to 95 miles per hour (152 km / h), two reached category 3 (up to 129 mph or 207 km / h) and two to category 4 with winds of up to 156 mph (251 km / h).
Of this year’s cyclones, nine made landfall in the US, where they mostly produced severe flooding, and others hit Cuba, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
Hurricane Ida, formed in late August, hit the US hardest, with 95 deaths and damage estimated at at least $ 65 billion, especially in Louisiana, New Jersey and New York.
Although the last two months of the season were relatively calm in the Atlantic, the 21 names that the International Meteorological Organization establishes to refer to the cyclones of each year were used.
Meteorologists had predicted before the start of the season (June 1) that cyclonic activity would be higher than normal, although without reaching the 2020 record, when there were 30 named storms, of which 14 were hurricanes and half were they of higher category (3, 4 or 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale).
The annual average of named storms in the period 199-2020 was 14, two more than in the period from 1981 to 2010.
The first storm of 2021, Ana, appeared in May, before the official start of the season, something that has been happening for several years and that has led some experts to have raised the need to advance the start, and the last one was Wanda, formed on October 24 off the central part of the American Atlantic coast.
The first hurricane of the year was Elsa, a category 1 hurricane, which formed on July 2 and made landfall in west-central Cuba three days later, then continued on its way through the Gulf of Mexico and ended up in the Carolinas and Massachusetts. .
Grace, which made landfall in Mexico on August 19, was the first major hurricane of the season, causing at least 14 deaths and $ 513 million in damage.
Larry, which hit a hurricane on September 2, was the first hurricane to make landfall in Newfoundland, Canada since Igor in 2010.
Sam, the second and last Category 4 hurricane in 2021, formed on September 23 and was always on the water. (I)
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