The Atlantic hurricane season was very active, but few made landfall

This year in the Atlantic, basin hurricane season that officially ends on Wednesday, was very active, with 18 tropical storms, of which six became hurricanes, but very few are left on Earth.

One of the exceptions was "Irene", which became the ninth costliest hurricane of which we have record in the Atlantic.

"The season was very active" at the high number of storms tropical were formed, but "Fortunately, very few hurricanes affected land", stressed to Efe Lixion Avila, meteorologist for the National Center of hurricanes (CNH) of the United States.U.S.

As in 2010, the presence of a low pressure throughout the season of this American coast Hurricane acted as a shield against the onslaught of weather phenomena, many of whom were to die in the waters of the North Atlantic.

In this regard, Avila said that the area of low pressure - a phenomenon that There was an error deserializing the object of type System.String. Encountered unexpected character 'q'. u000asevere floods, especially in areas of New Jersey

"Irene", the first hurricane of the season in the Atlantic, caused between 40 and 50 killed, including five in Santo Domingo and one in Puerto Rico - according to temporary CNH-, and left millions of Americans without electricity.

According to the NHC, the damage caused by "Irene" could reach the $ 6 billion, excluding data from insurers against floods, so the final figure could be "much higher", said Avila.

All this makes "Irene" the ninth Hurricane more material damage caused in the Atlantic since that is registration.

In any case, this is far from the destructive and deadly season of 2005, when "Katrina" claimed the lives of 1,200 people in the United States.UU. and caused damage worth more than 108 billion dollars, according to the NHC.

"Katrina" was the third deadliest natural disaster in the United States.UU. of which has u000arecord since 1900 and the first to damage materials.

In fact, the damage caused by hurricanes and storms in the 2005 season amounted to 141,000 billion dollars, the highest figure that saves record since 1900.

For Avila, "most importantly" is to be aware of our vulnerability to hurricanes and storms and thus end up with "one of the most serious problems: overconfidence" with that part of the U.S. population faces each year hurricane season, which kicks off the June 1.

"Happen two, three, four or five years without any hurricanes people is entrusted, believes not come more and forgets plans" contingency, warned.

One of the areas was again spared the scourge of the cyclone was the Caribbean, which did not suffer, as well in 2010, the enormous impact of past years.

, Storms and cyclones gave a breather to the already devastated Haiti, which was so severely punished in u000a2008, when there were about 800 killed and 80,000 victims.

Not just luck ran Mexican territory in the Gulf of Mexico, who suffered the onslaught of "Nate", the fourteenth tropical storm of the season in the Atlantic, basin which caused four deaths, including that of a 9 year old girl who died was struck by lightning in Veracruz.

Thus ends the hurricane season in the Atlantic, which, according to experts, remains the sixth most active in the annals of the weather.

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