What does it mean if early Atlantic hurricane season is relatively calm?
When Tropical Storm Andrea made its 12-hour appearance in the middle of the northern Atlantic Ocean earlier this week, it ended the longest wait for a named storm in the basin since the 2014 season.
It developed in open waters west of the Azores and hundreds of miles east of Bermuda. It was only briefly strong enough to count as a tropical storm, but Andrea nonetheless entered the record books as the named storm to occur the farthest northeast during June.
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